Craig Bellamy's squad Prepared to Take on Anyone in World Cup Qualifying Fixture
The team has won eight of their previous 16 matches under manager Craig Bellamy
Wales' sights are squarely on Thursday's World Cup play-off draw as they await discovering their semi-final and possible final opponents.
Having ended as runners-up in their qualifying group thanks to a dominant 7-1 win over North Macedonia – their biggest win since 1978 – the side will host the semi-final encounter on home soil.
They will face either the Albanian side, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo or Ireland in that fixture on 26 March.
Ex- Wales forward Rob Earnshaw feels the Dragons will relish a match against any opponent following their most recent result at Cardiff City Stadium.
"I know Craig Bellamy, I played with him and his mindset is 'bring on whoever, it doesn't matter'," Earnshaw said.
"Many fans were asking recently, 'do we really want Ireland because of that derby atmosphere?'. I think many supporters were hesitant. But personally, that could be amazing.
"It's one of those, indeed, we'll take Kosovo or the Bosnians and Albania are decent and Republic of Ireland, of course, they're a strong team so it will be tough.
"But the sense is that we'll take anybody at the moment and we're confident, and a lot of that is because of Craig Bellamy."
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The Welsh squad are placed thirty-fourth in the FIFA standings, with Albania 61st, Republic of Ireland sixty-second, Bosnia-Herzegovina seventy-fifth and Kosovo eighty-fourth.
Albania enjoyed a solid qualification run, with their only losses coming at the hands of Group K winners England, who claimed maximum points without allowing a single goal.
The Premier League's Armando Broja and the Serie A side's Elseid Hysaj are part of the Red and Blacks's prominent names, although it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford forward Rey Manaj who topped their goal chart in the qualifiers with three goals.
It is worth noting, the Albanians have never earned a spot for a FIFA World Cup, though they participated at Euro 2016 and the 2024 Euros, not managing to reach the knockout stages on both occasions.
As Slovenia and Sweden had difficult campaigns, with both failing to win a qualifying match, Group B was a straight shootout between Switzerland and Kosovo.
The Swiss finished the six-game campaign 3 points ahead of the Kosovans, whose one defeat came at the hands of the group winners.
Kosovo include ex- Manchester City keeper Arijanet Muric and La Liga's Vedat Muriqi – his nation's historic leading goalscorer – in a squad targeting a first major tournament appearance.
They have not yet faced the Welsh team.
Bosnia-Herzegovina were defeated only one time in qualifying, and claimed a points more than the Welsh managed in their eight games, but nonetheless finished two points adrift of Group H winners Austria.
They were a quarter of an hour away from securing a spot at the finals, but Michael Gregoritsch's equaliser for the Austrians meant the pair drew in the last game of qualifying and Ralf Rangnick's team topped the group.
Wales have not managed to defeat the Bosnian side in 4 attempts but did have a unforgettable defeat against Zmajevi as they qualified for the 2016 European Championship under Chris Coleman even after the defeat.
As his country's all-time top goalscorer and most-capped player, former Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, now at Fiorentina, is unquestionably Bosnia-Herzegovina's star player.
The 39-year-old was his squad's leading goalscorer in the qualifiers with five goals.
Lastly, we have Republic of Ireland.
Having secured only a single point from their opening 3 qualifiers, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side stormed into the play-offs with successive wins against Armenia, Portugal and Hungary.
Troy Parrott netted both goals against Euro 2016 winners Portugal before bagging a hat-trick – with the final goal arriving in the 96th minute – as the Republic of Ireland stunned Hungary to take runner-up spot in Group F in dramatic fashion.
Key player Seamus Coleman had a crucial role in his team's resurgence while Brentford keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has made the starting position his to keep.
Ireland are without a win in their last four encounters with Wales, losing three of those, though James McClean broke the hopes of the Red Wall as Martin O'Neill's team won a crucial World Cup qualifier at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.
