Eight for Wales, none for Armenia

The scoreboard’s 0-8 left little room for interpretation. Wales had put eight past Armenia in European Championship Qualifying, an away win whose margin did the talking without requiring a footnote.

For Armenia, the task was to find a way through a match that ended with no goals of their own. For Wales, eight was the count that mattered: eight between them and their hosts at the finish. Football’s arithmetic can be blunt; this time, it was also rather tidy.