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The team's attention are firmly on the upcoming World Cup playoff fixture as they await learning their semifinal and possible final rivals.

After finished second in their qualifying group following a commanding 7-1 triumph over North Macedonia – their largest success since 1978 – Wales will play the semi-final encounter on home soil.

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

Former Wales striker Rob Earnshaw thinks the Welsh squad will welcome a tie against any opponent following their latest result at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, I played with him and his mindset is 'give us whoever, it doesn't matter'," Earnshaw commented.

"A lot of fans were wondering last night, 'should we really want Republic of Ireland as it's that derby feel?'. In my view a number of people didn't. But personally, that could be amazing.

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

"But the sense is that we'll take anyone at the moment and it doesn't matter, and much of that is because of Craig Bellamy."

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The Welsh squad sit 34th in the world rankings, with the Albanian team 61st, Ireland sixty-second, Bosnia 75th and the Kosovan side eighty-fourth.

The Albanian national team had a solid qualifying campaign, with their only defeats coming at the hands of their group winners England, who secured full points without conceding a solitary goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and the Serie A side's Elseid Hysaj are among the Albanian squad's more notable names, though it was ex- Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford forward Rey Manaj who led their goal tally in the qualifiers with three goals.

Importantly, Albania have not yet earned a spot for a World Cup, though they participated at Euro 2016 and Euro 2024, failing to reach the last 16 on each times.

While Slovenia and Sweden had difficult runs, with both not managing to win a qualification match, their group was a direct battle between Switzerland and the Kosovan team.

The Switzerland finished the six-match qualifiers 3 points ahead of Kosovo, whose one loss came at the hands of the pool winners.

Kosovo include ex- Manchester City goalkeeper Arijanet Muric and Mallorca's Vedat Muriqi – his nation's all-time leading goalscorer – in a team aiming for a maiden international competition appearance.

They have not yet faced the Welsh team.

Bosnia were defeated just once in the qualifiers, and claimed a points additional than the Welsh achieved in their 8 games, but still finished 2 points adrift of Group H winners Austria.

They were a quarter of an hour away from clinching a place at the World Cup, but Michael Gregoritsch's leveler for the Austrians ensured the pair drew in the final game of qualifying and Ralf Rangnick's team won the pool.

The Welsh have not managed to beat the Bosnian side in 4 attempts but did have a memorable defeat against Zmajevi as they qualified for Euro 2016 under Chris Coleman despite the defeat.

Being his nation's all-time leading scorer and most-capped player, former Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is undoubtedly Bosnia's key player.

The 39-year-old was his team's leading goalscorer in qualifying with five goals.

Lastly, we have Ireland.

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

Troy Parrott netted the two 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 runner-up spot in their group in thrilling style.

Key player Seamus Coleman had a crucial role in his side's resurgence while Brentford keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has secured the number one position his to keep.

Ireland are winless in their last four meetings with the Welsh, losing three of these, although James McClean shattered the hopes of the Red Wall as Martin O'Neill's men won a crucial World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.