Bale named in Wales squad despite Real Madrid injury absence

But one point from their remaining two qualifiers – in Bosnia & Herzegovina on October 10 and at home to Andorra on October 13 – will seal a place at Euro 2016.

“If we’d taken a point in Cyprus and three against Israel everybody would have said that’s a great camp”. We were so close but it wasn’t to be.

Liverpool’s Joe Allen is available again after missing last month’s double-header against Cyprus and Israel with a hamstring injury, as is Crystal Palace midfielder Joe Ledley who was also sidelined for both those games with a similar problem. “We need our strongest team on the pitch to get the result”, Coleman told reporters after the announcement of his squad.

“Gareth has been incredibly important for us, so we don’t want to be going into these two games without him”, Coleman said. If he’s with us I’m looking for him to start against Bosnia and hopefully that’s on the back of him getting a few minutes in the derby. It’s in our hands, one more push from this group and I’m fully confident we can.

“I said these boys would do something special and nothing has changed my mind. It’s upon us. It’s time to go and achieve”.

“Hopefully he gets a game in before he comes to us, but I don’t know whether Rafa (Benitez, Real manager) plans to start him or use him as a substitute this weekend”.

And Wales boss Chris Coleman has ruled out resting the £85m man for the trip to Bosnia as he seeks on getting burying the qualifying hoodoo at the first chance. We need another performance.

“We’ll meet them, like we have every other team in this campaign, head on and we’ll be going there to get three points”.

Squad in full: Wayne Hennessey, Daniel Ward, Owain Fon Williams, Ashley Williams, Ben Davies, James Chester, James Collins, Chris Gunter, Neil Taylor, Ashley Richards, Adam Henley, Joe Allen, Aaron Ramsey, David Edwards, Andy King, Joe Ledley, Emyr Huws, Jonathan Williams, David Vaughan, Hal Robson-Kanu, Simon Church, David Cotterill, Tom Lawrence, Sam Vokes, Gareth Bale.