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The team's focus are squarely on Thursday's World Cup play-off draw as they await learning their semifinal and potential final challengers.

After finished as runners-up in their qualifying group thanks to a commanding 7-1 triumph over North Macedonia – their largest win since 1978 – the side will host the semi-final match on home soil.

They will meet either Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo or Ireland in that match on 26 March.

Ex- Wales forward Rob Earnshaw believes the Dragons will welcome a match against whichever team after their latest result at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, I played with him and his approach is 'give us whoever, we're ready'," Earnshaw said.

"Many people were asking last night, 'do we actually want Republic of Ireland as it's that derby feel?'. In my view a number of supporters didn't. But personally, that would be fantastic.

"So it's that type of situation, indeed, we're ready for the Kosovans or Bosnia and Albania are decent and Ireland, of course, they are a very good team so it will be tough.

"However you just feel that we'll take anyone at the moment and we're confident, and a lot of that is because of Craig Bellamy."

Potential Play-off Semifinal Opponents Assessed

Wales sit thirty-fourth in the FIFA standings, with the Albanian team 61st, Republic of Ireland 62nd, Bosnia seventy-fifth and Kosovo 84th.

Albania had a impressive qualifying run, with their sole losses suffered at the hands of Group K winners England, who claimed full points without conceding a solitary goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and the Serie A side's Elseid Hysaj are among the Red and Blacks's prominent players, though it was ex- Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford striker Rey Manaj who led their scoring chart in the qualifiers with three goals.

Importantly, the Albanians have not yet qualified for a World Cup, although they featured at the 2016 European Championship and the 2024 Euros, not managing to advance to the knockout stages on each times.

While Slovenia and Sweden had difficult campaigns, with each failing to win a qualifying match, Group B was a direct battle between Switzerland and the Kosovan team.

The Swiss finished the six-game campaign 3 points ahead of Kosovo, whose one loss came at the hands of the group winners.

The Kosovan squad include former Manchester City keeper Arijanet Muric and La Liga's Vedat Muriqi – his nation's all-time top scorer – in a squad aiming for a maiden international competition appearance.

They have not yet faced the Welsh team.

Bosnia-Herzegovina were defeated just once in the qualifiers, and earned a point additional than the Welsh achieved in their 8 games, but nonetheless ended 2 points adrift of their group winners Austria.

They were 13 minutes away from securing a spot at the finals, but Michael Gregoritsch's equaliser for the Austrians meant the teams tied in the final game of qualifying and Ralf Rangnick's team won the group.

The Welsh have failed to defeat the Bosnians in 4 matches but did have a unforgettable defeat against Zmajevi as they earned qualification for Euro 2016 under Chris Coleman even after losing.

As his nation's historic leading scorer and most-capped player, ex- Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is unquestionably Bosnia-Herzegovina's standout player.

The veteran was his squad's leading goalscorer in the qualifiers with five goals.

And finally, we have Republic of Ireland.

After secured only a single point from their first three qualifiers, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side surged into the play-offs with back-to-back wins against Armenia, Portugal and Hungary.

Troy Parrott scored the two goals against Euro 2016 winners Portugal before bagging a triple – with the third goal coming in the 96th minute – as the Republic of Ireland surprised Hungary to take second spot in Group F in dramatic fashion.

Key player Seamus Coleman played a vital role in his side's revival while Brentford goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher has secured the number one jersey his own.

The Republic of Ireland are winless in their last 4 meetings with the Welsh, losing three of these, though James McClean shattered the hearts of the Welsh fans as Martin O'Neill's team won a crucial World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.