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Had Bodin’s penalty gone in rather than struck the crossbar against Romania, maybe Wales would have gone on to right that ‘wrong’ from 16 years earlier.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
His second attempt clanked off the uprights — hitting the left upright before bouncing off the crossbar.