Aaron Ramsey and Connor Roberts scored as Wales took a huge step towards reaching the last 16 at Euro 2020 with a 2-0 win over Turkey in Baku on Wednesday. Turkey are facing an uphill challenge to reach the knockout stages after losing their first two Group A matches without scoring. Wales, semi-finalists five years ago, should have won more convincingly, but wasted several chances including a second-half penalty which was blazed over by captain Gareth Bale. Turkey coach Senol Gunes dropped Juventus defender Merih Demiral after he scored an own goal in Friday's tournament-opening defeat in Italy. 

Robert Page kept the same Wales side from Saturday's 1-1 draw with Switzerland in Baku. A hostile crowd was expected due to the close links between Ankara and Baku due to a centuries-long relationship solidified with Turkey's support of Azerbaijan in last year's conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Every early Wales touch was welcomed with whistles from the 30,000 crowd, with up to 4,000 Turkish fans having travelled, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a very open first half an hour both sides had very good chances to open the scoring including Turkey skipper Burak Yilmaz, whose effort was deflected out for a corner, and Wales' Ramsey. With opportunities at both ends as the two teams refused to sit back, the Crescent Stars had two efforts blocked by last-gap defending on the 30-minute mark. With two minutes of the half remaining the vocal home support were stunned into silence by Ramsey's opener. Bale found Ramsey free in the box and the Juventus man chested the ball down before side-footing coolly past Ugurcan Cakir, making amends for missing two glorious earlier chances.