A full house at the Cardiff City Stadium as Wales take on Belgium who are second in the FIFA rankings and according to the bookies favourite to win the game. A game, which stands to have potentially decisive say upon the ultimate composition of the automatic qualification spots in Group B of the European Qualifier. The game tomorrow will the live on Sky Sports.
Wales and Belgium are joint leaders in Group B on 11 points so making this top-of- the-table clash vital with both teams hoping to keep the gap between them and third place Israel. They (Israel) face a trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina, and will be looking to put pressure on the joint leaders of the group while the loser will be likely forced to fight it out with the Israelis for second spot if they pick up some points.
While Wales decided against playing a friendly last weekend Belgium travelled to Paris, played France, and were 4-3 victors. The Welsh manager Chris Coleman said it would be better to work on the training ground than play a game.
Although the visitors may be favourites Wales did manage a very impressive 0-0 draw in Brussels in November. Still, the fact that Belgium have won six and drawn one of their last seven away qualifiers suggests the best Wales can hope for is a draw. The atmosphere will be electric in and around Cardiff with over 2000 Belgium fans in town and pubs screening the game hope for a bumper payday in their tills.
I am not the biggest of international football fan, I am a clubman, but I always want Wales to win like the rest of sport minded Wales. The down side of supporting Wales have far outweighed those great nights/games like the Italy game at the Millennium Stadium but we always hope this tournament would be the one.
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