Rob Web page known as the backing from his gamers “highly effective” after Wales bounced again into Euro 2024 qualifying competition with a 2-0 victory in Latvia.
A penalty from skipper Aaron Ramsey – his one hundredth profession objective – and a scrumptious David Brooks chip deep into stoppage time put Wales inside three factors of a top-two place and lifted the stress on under-fire supervisor Web page.
Group favourites Croatia’s 1-0 victory in Armenia was additional excellent news for Wales, who had solely gained as soon as in 13 video games earlier than arriving in Riga.
Ramsey and others had backed Web page throughout the build-up to a sport many noticed as pivotal within the supervisor’s tenure.
Web page mentioned of the gamers’ help: “It feels good, it feels highly effective, completely – that’s a large praise to myself from the gamers.
“I’ve simply mentioned to them, even the lads that haven’t performed, all of them play a component. There aren’t any unhealthy eggs in that altering room.
“Stress doesn’t exist, it’s created from outdoors affect.
“We did our greatest as employees to attempt to not let that penetrate the bubble and hold as calm as doable.
“We knew it was going to be a tricky check for us after their heavy defeat. It wasn’t simply concerning the win, I assumed the efficiency was excellent.
“For the primary 35 minutes of the primary half, we have been excellent, saved the ball. We obtained the objective after which retreated a bit bit, which we’ll tackle.”
Wales had quite a few probabilities to place the sport past Latvia after Harry Wilson was bundled over within the field after 28 minutes and Ramsey transformed from 12 yards.
However none have been taken till the sixth minute of stoppage time when Brooks, on for the injured Ramsey, accepted Wilson’s go to fit dwelling his first Wales objective since recovering from most cancers final yr.
Web page mentioned: “The stress got here from the surface, understandably, however we by no means questioned it inside the group.
“We knew we needed to give a constructive response after the frustration of June (Euro 2024 marketing campaign defeats to Armenia and Turkey) and we completely have – and a few.
“An incredible efficiency in opposition to a really, superb (South) Korea staff final week and adopted it up with a totally totally different check in opposition to a really bodily staff that went again to entrance fairly a bit.
“We needed to win first contacts and second balls.
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— Wales
