International
2026-06-02 - Wales vs Ghana
A Sports Betting Pick by Auls
Football: International Friendly
Tuesday 2nd June 2026 - Kick Off 7:45pm
Preview
The future of Craig Bellamy as Wales manager continues to be the subject of reports, but for now he is guiding the team into the final fixtures of the 2025/26 season.
The disappointment of missing out on a place at the World Cup Finals in the United States, Canada and Mexico this summer will still be something very much on the Welsh minds. They were Knocked Out on Penalties in the Play Off Semi Final in March against Bosnia-Herzegovina having led in normal time with less than five minutes remaining.
This is a nation that were used to missing out on major international tournaments for more than a couple of generations, but Wales returned to the top table of international football in 2016. It has been a successful decade compared to the years that had come before, but raised expectations will mean Welsh fans are thinking about what may have been this summer.
Keeping hold of Craig Bellamy will be important when Nations League Football returns in the Autumn, while Wales will be thinking ahead to the Euro 2028 Finals, which will be shared around the United Kingdom. However, they will have to Qualify for that tournament even as one of the co-hosts and so everyone will want to get Bellamy's future sorted out and begin preparing for two years time.
Wales have won 2 of the last 7 games in all competitions, but they are unbeaten in the last 4 in normal time and will be hosting a Ghana team that will be travelling to the United States for the World Cup Finals this summer.
Being in the same Group as England means Ghana have planned to face Wales to get an idea of how nations from Great Britain may set up to play them.
It will be the fifth time in six World Cup Finals that Ghana have made it through, but the team have lost all five friendly games since Qualifying for the forty-eight team tournament. There have been issues at both ends of the field in those friendly games, but Ghana do have some experience both within the squad and on the bench where Carlos Queiroz will be managing the team.
A positive result before the World Cup Finals begin would do Ghana the world of good, but this is a time where the manager and the squad are just getting back on the same page. Giving away too much in an international friendly is not something any team will want to do, while the nature of this period is managers making wholesale changes throughout the ninety minutes to be played.
This will be the first meeting between Wales and Ghana.
Prediction
Preparation for the World Cup Finals will mean some teams are really motivated to show what they can do in the international friendly environment.
For a team like Wales, this is just a reminder of what may have been and some key players have departed the squad.
Craig Bellamy is still in charge, but he has been linked with vacant clubs jobs at the likes of Burnley and that is another distraction for the home team.
However, Ghana arrive having lost 5 straight friendly games and it could be a day where both teams shake hands on a draw when all is said and done.
The Pick :
Wales 1-1 Ghana
