Eastwood inspires Wales victory
Freddy Eastwood put aside his frustration at club level to display his goalscoring prowess in Wales' 2-0 friendly victory in Luxembourg.
Eastwood has not started a Wolves game since Boxing Day but relished the chance to play for Wales and bagged a goal in each half to complete a comfortable win.
Wales have now gone five matches undefeated and lost just three times in their last 16, but this did not require one of their better performances.
Luxembourg seemed intent on just stopping Wales' creative players any way they could - Jason Koumas getting no protection from Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers when he was kicked virtually every time he had the ball.
The hosts were reminiscent of the San Marino side Wales played back in October, a spoiling, niggling team just intent of stopping the flow.
Eastwood and Jermaine Easter struggled for an understanding up front, and bore the brunt of the Luxembourg tactics, but eventually Wales got themselves into the lead after 37 minutes.
Eastwood took a cross-field pass from Koumas and forced his way into the box, side-stepping opponents before firing his low effort into the far corner past Jonathan Joubert, his third goal in seven internationals.
At the break Wales sent on Hull keeper Boaz Myhill for his debut, while Swansea's injury-jinxed midfielder Owain Tudur-Jones also came on for his long awaited first cap in place of Easter.
Wales sent on David Cotterill for Carl Fletcher as the game entered the closing stages and he was unlucky to see his effort hit the outside of a post.
10:56pm Wednesday 26th March 2008
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