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Wales' focus are squarely on the upcoming World Cup playoff fixture as they prepare for learning their semi-final and potential final rivals.

Having finished as runners-up in their qualification group following a decisive 7-1 win over North Macedonia – their biggest success since 1978 – Wales will host the semifinal encounter on home soil.

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

Ex- Wales striker Rob Earnshaw feels the Dragons will welcome a tie against whichever team 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, we're ready'," Earnshaw commented.

"A lot of people were wondering last night, 'do we really want Ireland because of that local feel?'. In my view many supporters were hesitant. But personally, that would be incredible.

"So it's one of those, yes, we're ready for Kosovo or Bosnia and Albania are decent and Republic of Ireland, naturally, they are a capable team so they'll be tough.

"But you just feel that we'll take anybody at the moment and we're confident, and much of that is because of Craig Bellamy."

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Wales sit 34th in the world rankings, with Albania 61st, Ireland sixty-second, Bosnia-Herzegovina seventy-fifth and Kosovo eighty-fourth.

The Albanian national team enjoyed a strong qualifying run, with their only losses suffered at the hands of their group winners England, who secured full points without allowing a single goal.

The Premier League's Armando Broja and Lazio's Elseid Hysaj are among the Albanian squad's more notable names, although it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford striker Rey Manaj who led their scoring chart in qualifying with 3 goals.

Notably, the Albanians have never qualified for a FIFA World Cup, though they featured at Euro 2016 and Euro 2024, failing to advance to the last 16 on each occasions.

As Slovenia and Sweden had poor runs, with each not managing to win a qualification match, Group B was a direct battle between Switzerland and the Kosovan team.

The Swiss ended the six-match campaign 3 points ahead of Kosovo, whose single loss was at the hands of the pool winners.

The Kosovan squad feature former Manchester City keeper Arijanet Muric and La Liga's Vedat Muriqi – his nation's historic top scorer – in a team aiming for a maiden major tournament appearance.

They have never played the Welsh team.

Bosnia-Herzegovina lost only one time in qualifying, and claimed a point more than the Welsh achieved in their eight games, but nonetheless finished two points adrift of their group winners Austria.

They were a quarter of an hour away from clinching a spot at the finals, 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.

Wales have failed to defeat the Bosnians in four matches but did have a memorable loss against the Dragons as they earned qualification for the 2016 European Championship under Chris Coleman even after the defeat.

Being his nation's historic top goalscorer and most-capped player, ex- Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is undoubtedly Bosnia-Herzegovina's star player.

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

And finally, we have Republic of Ireland.

After taken just one point from their opening three matches, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side surged into the playoffs 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 final goal arriving in the 96th minute – as the Republic of Ireland surprised Hungary to secure runner-up place in their group in dramatic style.

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

The Republic of Ireland are winless in their last four encounters with the Welsh, defeated in three of those, though James McClean broke the hopes of the Welsh fans as Martin O'Neill's men won a crucial World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.