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The team's focus are squarely on Thursday's World Cup playoff fixture as they await learning their semi-final and possible final opponents.

Having ended second in their qualifying group following a dominant 7-1 win over North Macedonia – their biggest success since 1978 – the side will play the semi-final encounter on home soil.

They will meet either Albania, Bosnia, the Kosovan team or Republic of Ireland in that fixture on 26 March.

Former Wales striker Rob Earnshaw feels the Welsh squad will embrace a match against whichever team after their latest result at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, we were teammates with him and his mentality is 'bring on whoever, it doesn't matter'," Earnshaw commented.

"Many fans were wondering recently, 'should we actually want Republic of Ireland as it's that derby atmosphere?'. In my view many people didn't. But personally, that would be fantastic.

"So it's that type of situation, indeed, we'll take the Kosovans or Bosnia and Albania are decent and Republic of Ireland, of course, they are a strong team so they'll be tough.

"However you just feel that we're prepared for anyone at the moment and it doesn't matter, and much of that is because of Craig Bellamy."

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Wales sit thirty-fourth in the world rankings, with Albania sixty-first, Ireland sixty-second, Bosnia 75th and Kosovo 84th.

Albania enjoyed a strong qualification run, with their only losses coming at the hands of their group winners England, who claimed full points without conceding a solitary goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and Lazio's Elseid Hysaj are part of the Red and Blacks's recognizable names, though it was ex- Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford striker Rey Manaj who led their scoring chart in qualifying with three goals.

Importantly, Albania have never earned a spot for a World Cup, although they featured at the 2016 European Championship and the 2024 Euros, not managing to advance to the last 16 on each occasions.

As Slovenia and Sweden had difficult runs, with both failing to win a qualification match, their group was a straight shootout between Switzerland and the Kosovan team.

The Switzerland finished the six-game campaign three points clear of Kosovo, whose one loss was at the hands of the group winners.

The Kosovan squad include ex- Manchester City keeper Arijanet Muric and Mallorca's Vedat Muriqi – his country's all-time leading goalscorer – in a squad aiming for a first international competition appearance.

They have never faced the Welsh team.

Bosnia lost just once in the qualifiers, and earned a point more than Wales managed in their eight games, but nonetheless ended two points adrift of Group H winners Austria.

They were 13 minutes away from clinching a spot at the World Cup, but Michael Gregoritsch's equaliser for the Austrians meant the teams tied in the last game of qualification and Ralf Rangnick's team won the group.

The Welsh have not managed to beat the Bosnian side in 4 matches but experienced a memorable defeat against Zmajevi as they qualified for the 2016 European Championship under Chris Coleman even after losing.

Being his country's all-time leading scorer and record appearance player, former Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is undoubtedly Bosnia-Herzegovina's key player.

The veteran was his squad's top scorer in the qualifiers with five goals.

Lastly, we have Ireland.

After secured just one point from their opening 3 matches, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side stormed into the playoffs with successive wins against Armenia, Portugal and Hungary.

Troy Parrott netted both goals against Euro 2016 winners Portugal before scoring a hat-trick – with the third goal arriving in the 96th minute – as the Irish stunned Hungary to take second place in their group in dramatic fashion.

Talisman Seamus Coleman had a crucial role in his side's resurgence while Premier League keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has made the starting position his to keep.

Ireland are without a win in their past four encounters with Wales, defeated in 3 of these, though James McClean shattered the hearts of the Welsh fans as Martin O'Neill's men won a decisive World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.