Collins named in Wales U21 squad

Last updated : 09 September 2003 By Michael Morris
from Penydarren Park, ko 7:30pm.

James Collins is named in the squad for tonights U21 clash. Collins was taken off injured last Friday as the youngsters went down to an 8 - 1 drubbing in Italy.

It's unknown at this stage whether the achillies injury sustained in Pavia will keep him out of tonights game.

On the defeat last Friday manager Jimmy Shoulder said

"We must never let that sort of thing happen again. I think collectively we did not have the nous to say 'enough is enough, boys, don't let them score another goal'."

"We did not have anybody to sort out the problems that Italy caused, our defence was particularly weak."

"In many respects it could have been 8-5 or 8-3 - even if we had scored a couple of goals the worry would be that we would have still conceded eight.

"If we play with the right intensity we should expect to get results against teams like Finland."