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The team's focus are squarely on Thursday's World Cup playoff fixture as they prepare for discovering their semi-final and potential final challengers.

Having finished as runners-up in their qualification group thanks to a dominant 7-1 triumph over North Macedonia – their biggest win since 1978 – Wales will play the semifinal encounter on home soil.

They will face either the Albanian side, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo or Republic of Ireland in that match on 26 March.

Ex- Wales forward Rob Earnshaw feels the Dragons will embrace a tie against whichever team after their latest result at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I know Craig Bellamy, I played with him and his mindset is 'bring on anyone, it doesn't matter'," Earnshaw stated.

"A lot of fans were asking last night, 'do we actually want Republic of Ireland as it's that local feel?'. In my view a number of people didn't. But personally, that would be incredible.

"So it's one of those, yes, we'll take Kosovo or the Bosnians and the Albanians are not bad and Republic of Ireland, naturally, they're a capable team so they'll be challenging.

"But the sense is that we'll take anybody right now and it doesn't matter, and much of that is down to Craig Bellamy."

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The Welsh squad sit 34th in the FIFA standings, with Albania 61st, Republic of Ireland sixty-second, Bosnia-Herzegovina 75th and Kosovo 84th.

Albania enjoyed a impressive qualification run, with their sole defeats coming at the hands of Group K winners England, who secured full points without conceding a single goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and Lazio's Elseid Hysaj are part of the Red and Blacks's recognizable names, although it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford forward Rey Manaj who topped their scoring chart in the qualifiers with three goals.

It is worth noting, Albania have not yet earned a spot for a World Cup, though they participated at Euro 2016 and the 2024 Euros, failing to reach the knockout stages on each times.

As Slovenia and Sweden endured poor runs, with each not managing to win a qualification match, their group was a straight shootout between Switzerland and Kosovo.

The Switzerland finished the six-game campaign three points ahead of the Kosovans, whose one defeat came at the hands of the pool winners.

Kosovo feature ex- Manchester City keeper Arijanet Muric and La Liga's Vedat Muriqi – his nation's all-time leading goalscorer – in a squad targeting a maiden international competition appearance.

They have never faced Wales.

Bosnia were defeated only one time in the qualifiers, and earned a point additional than Wales managed in their 8 games, but still finished two points behind of their group winners Austria.

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

Wales have not managed to defeat the Bosnians in 4 matches but experienced a memorable defeat against Zmajevi as they earned qualification for Euro 2016 under Chris Coleman despite losing.

Being his country's historic leading scorer and most-capped player, former Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is undoubtedly Bosnia's star player.

The veteran was his team's leading goalscorer in the qualifiers with five goals.

And finally, we have Republic of Ireland.

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

Troy Parrott netted the two goals against the 2016 European Championship winners Portugal before bagging a triple – with the third goal arriving in the 96th minute – as the Republic of Ireland surprised Hungary to secure runner-up spot in Group F in dramatic style.

Talisman Seamus Coleman had a crucial role in his team's resurgence while Brentford keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has secured the number one jersey his own.

The Republic of Ireland are without a win in their last 4 meetings with Wales, losing three of these, though James McClean shattered the hopes of the Welsh fans as Martin O'Neill's men won a crucial World Cup qualifier at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.