Wales not complaining after winning ugly

“You don’t get to a quarter-final of a major tournament with luck, you have to be a very good team to get there”.

Describing the goal, McAuley added: “Gareth Bale has got a fantastic ball into the box and I perhaps could have got a little less on it but [Robson-Kanu] was right behind me so I had to get something on it”.

But having seen his side edge through, he insists that focus has already shifted to the quarter-finals in Lille, where they will play either Belgium or Hungary.

Jonny Evans helped keep Gareth Bale quiet for 75 minutes.

Despite these numerous solid performances, he’s continuously being linked with a move away from Liverpool at the moment (via the Daily Star).

O’Neill’s attention will now turn to the qualification process for the 2018 World Cup in Russian Federation and he may have to accept that some of his elder players may want to sign off prior to that competition.

“We’re here to enjoy ourselves and show what Welsh football is about and I think we’re doing that”. “Credit to Northern Ireland who did what they do very well, that’s make it hard for their opponents”, said Coleman.

“I think for me as a player or a manager everybody needs an opportunity”, Davis told The Independent when asked about O’Neill, who scored 15 goals in 48 league appearances from midfield for Newcastle between 1987 and 1989.

Wales manager Chris Coleman was relieved to have won in a tense second “Battle of Britain” in France, after losing in the last minute against England in the group stage, and credited Northern Ireland in general and O’Neill in particular. Gareth [McAuley] had to make a split-second decision and it went against us.

Just before the break the Arsenal man is denied by an excellent save from Michael McGoven in the Northern Ireland goal and it remains nil-nil at the break.

Northern Ireland had the most energetic fans at Euro 2016 and they were on their feet for most of the game.

“There were a lot of lads in dressing room devastated”, he said.

O’Neill would not blame McAuley for the goal which sent his team out of their first major competition since the 1986 World Cup finals.

“We’ve got to pick ourselves up from this and take the experience we’ve had here into the next qualification campaign”. We knew what to do, it was just that the pitch dried out and they didn’t water it a lot, so we had to keep moving the ball, make them exhausted, grind them down, and ultimately we did that and we forced them into the mistake. The tactic worked a treat, but I never felt Wales were in serious danger of losing the game.