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The team's attention are firmly on the upcoming World Cup play-off fixture as they prepare for learning their semi-final and possible final rivals.

Having finished second in their qualifying pool thanks to a dominant 7-1 victory over North Macedonia – their largest success since 1978 – Wales will play the semi-final match on their own turf.

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

Ex- Wales striker Rob Earnshaw thinks the Dragons will welcome a match against any team after their latest result at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, we were teammates with him and his approach is 'give us whoever, we're ready'," Earnshaw commented.

"A lot of people were wondering last night, 'do we really want Republic of Ireland because of that local atmosphere?'. I think many people didn't. But for me, that could be incredible.

"So it's one of those, yes, we're ready for the Kosovans or the Bosnians and the Albanians are not bad and Ireland, of course, they are a very good team so they'll be tough.

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

Possible Playoff Semi-final Opponents Reviewed

The Welsh squad are placed thirty-fourth in the FIFA rankings, with the Albanian team sixty-first, Republic of Ireland 62nd, Bosnia-Herzegovina 75th and Kosovo eighty-fourth.

Albania had a impressive qualifying run, with their only defeats coming at the hands of Group K winners England, who secured full points without allowing a solitary goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and the Serie A side's Elseid Hysaj are among the Albanian squad's prominent players, though it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford striker Rey Manaj who topped their goal chart in qualifying with 3 goals.

Importantly, Albania have never qualified for a World Cup, although they featured at the 2016 European Championship and Euro 2024, not managing to reach the knockout stages on each times.

As Slovenia and Sweden had torrid runs, with both not managing to win a qualification match, their group was a straight shootout between Switzerland and the Kosovan team.

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

Kosovo include ex- Manchester City goalkeeper Arijanet Muric and La Liga's Vedat Muriqi – his country's historic top scorer – in a team aiming for a first international competition appearance.

They have never faced the Welsh team.

Bosnia lost only one time in qualifying, and claimed a points additional than Wales achieved in their eight games, but still finished two points adrift of their group winners Austria.

They were 13 minutes away from securing a spot at the finals, but Michael Gregoritsch's equaliser for the Austrians ensured the teams drew in the final game of qualifying and Ralf Rangnick's team topped the pool.

Wales have failed to defeat the Bosnians in 4 attempts but did have a memorable loss against the Dragons as they qualified for the 2016 European Championship under Chris Coleman despite losing.

As his country's historic top goalscorer and record appearance player, former Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is unquestionably Bosnia-Herzegovina's star player.

The veteran was his squad's top scorer in the qualifiers with 5 goals.

And finally, we have Ireland.

After secured only a single point from their first three matches, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side surged into the play-offs with back-to-back wins against Armenia, Portugal and Hungary.

Troy Parrott netted the two goals against Euro 2016 winners Portugal before bagging a hat-trick – with the third goal coming in the 96th minute – as the Republic of Ireland stunned Hungary to take second spot in Group F in thrilling fashion.

Key player Seamus Coleman played a vital role in his team's resurgence while Premier League keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has made the starting position his own.

Ireland are winless in their past four encounters with the Welsh, defeated in 3 of those, although James McClean broke the hearts of the Red Wall as Martin O'Neill's men won a decisive World Cup qualifier at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.