{"id":652962,"date":"2025-03-22T14:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=652962"},"modified":"2025-03-22T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:22:49","slug":"wales-confirmed-lineup-kazakhstan-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/22\/wales-confirmed-lineup-kazakhstan-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Confirmed Lineup vs Kazakhstan for March 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the Wales confirmed lineup for their World Cup Qualifying<\/a> opener with Kazakhstan. This will be viewed as a winnable outing at home by the Welsh fans and the expectation is firmly on the players to deliver. After failing to reach Euro 2024 the nation will hope that Craig Bellamy<\/a> can guide them to the 2026 World Cup in America.<\/p>\n

Wales Confirmed Lineup vs Kazakhstan for World Cup Qualifier<\/h2>\n

Wales Team News<\/h3>\n

Karl Darlow is given the nod in goal. The back line is made up of Neco Williams, Ben Davies, Joe Rodon, Connor Roberts, and Sorba Thomas. Brennan Johnson starts with Daniel James, Josh Sheehan, and David Brooks behind striker Liam Cullen.<\/p>\n

The rest of the available squad is on the bench.<\/p>\n

Notable Changes<\/h3>\n

There are a few changes when compared to the lineup that lost in the play-offs to Poland one year ago. Ethan Ampadu isn’t in the squad at all while James has earned a spot supporting the striker alongside Brennan. Cullen has also been chosen as the striker as opposed to Kieffer Moore who started that crushing defeat.<\/p>\n

The formation looks similar with it looking like a 3-4-3 or a 5-2-3 of sorts.<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan Team News<\/h3>\n

Zarutskly, Tapalov, Bystrov, Marochkin, Allip, Vorogovskly, Chesnokov, Tagybergen, Muzhikov, Samorodov, Zhakslylkov<\/p>\n

Available Wales Squad<\/h3>\n
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  • Danny Ward<\/li>\n
  • Karl Darlow<\/li>\n
  • Adam Davies<\/li>\n
  • Ben Davies<\/li>\n
  • Joe Roden<\/li>\n
  • Connor Roberts<\/li>\n
  • Chris Mepham<\/li>\n
  • Ben Cabango<\/li>\n
  • Neco Williams<\/li>\n
  • Jay Dasilva<\/li>\n
  • Josh Sheehan<\/li>\n
  • Jordan James<\/li>\n
  • Kai Andrews<\/li>\n
  • Ollie Cooper<\/li>\n
  • Sorba Thomas<\/li>\n
  • Joe Allen<\/li>\n
  • David Brooks<\/li>\n
  • Kieffer Moore<\/li>\n
  • Brennan Johnson<\/li>\n
  • Daniel James<\/li>\n
  • Liam Cullen<\/li>\n
  • Nathan Broadhead<\/li>\n
  • Mark Harris<\/li>\n
  • Lewis Koumas<\/li>\n
  • Rabbi Matondo<\/li>\n
  • Tom Lawrence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Stay tuned for the Wales confirmed lineup. There will be news as well as discussions on who started, who was dropped, and what tweaks we may see from the manager. Be sure to keep all eyes on the Cardiff City Stadium as the Welsh squad aims to get their qualification off to a strong start in Group J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is the Wales confirmed lineup for their World Cup Qualifying opener with Kazakhstan. This will be viewed as a winnable outing at home by the Welsh fans and the expectation is firmly on the players to deliver. After failing to reach Euro 2024 the nation will hope that Craig Bellamy can guide them to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":652964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[8451],"class_list":["post-652962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","tag-world-cup-qualifiers"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652968,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652962\/revisions\/652968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}