Arsenal midfielder Ramsey: Wales have made history

Wales sit second in Group B with 18 points from nine games, trailing leaders Belgium by two points ahead of matchday 10.

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A Welsh regional daily is set to publish a Sunday edition for the first time to mark a “momentous” day for the nation’s rugby and football clubs.

The current generation of Wales players grew up watching agonising near-misses.

“They did not come as a tourist, but to play well and pose us problems I would like to congratulate them on qualifying for the European Championship”, Bazdarevic said. It is the anguish of the past which has inspired this generation.

Turkey kept alive their hopes of third place in Group A with a 2-0 away win over the Czechs.

Bosnia have been beset by problems with doubts remaining over Edin Dzeko, who injured a calf two weeks ago.

“The best defeat of my life!” said Welsh inspiration Gareth Bale, the world’s most expensive player, after learning that the Israel result had sent his team into next year’s tournament. To be fair, that match wasn’t quite as bad as the scoreline suggests: a cagey first half gave way to chances at both ends in the second, though the goalkeepers invariably triumphed over the outfielders and the result was a scoreless draw.

The Bosnians eventually doubled their advantage with Vedad Ibisevic netting from close-range at the death.

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But Cyprus struck right back four minutes later when Jason Demetriou found himself with lots of space in the penalty box and easily beat Israel’s goalie Ofir Marciano.

Against Bosnia, they looked more nervy, but with Cyprus springing a surprise on Israel in Jerusalem, Wales can go into Tuesday’s dead-rubber against Andorra in Cardiff in the mood to celebrate.

Also in Group A, Iceland, already qualified for their first ever major finals, drew 2-2 with Latvia.

“Hopefully I will be saying to the gaffer I want to play on Tuesday”.

“But we’ve been playing with each other now for six to eight years and we know what is at stake”. All the players from my generation, and generations before, almost got there and it was really tough.

“We did all in our power to have him with us, he has been training and we will see if he is ready to play on Saturday”, said Bazdarevic, who is definitely without the suspended Everton midfielder Muhamed Besic. “It doesn’t stop here, we have business to do in France”.

“We can breathe a sigh of relief and enjoy the occasion”.