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The team's focus are firmly on the upcoming World Cup playoff fixture as they prepare for discovering their semifinal and possible final rivals.

Having ended as runners-up in their qualifying pool thanks to a dominant 7-1 victory over North Macedonia – their largest success since 1978 – Wales will host the semi-final encounter on home soil.

They will play against either the Albanian side, Bosnia, Kosovo or Ireland in that fixture on 26 March.

Ex- Wales forward Rob Earnshaw feels the Dragons will welcome a tie against any opponent after their most recent performance at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, I played with him and his mindset is 'give us whoever, it doesn't matter'," Earnshaw said.

"A lot of people were saying recently, 'should we really want Republic of Ireland because of that local feel?'. In my view a number of supporters didn't. But personally, that could be amazing.

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

"However the sense is that we're prepared for anyone at the moment and we're confident, and a lot of that is because of Craig Bellamy."

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Wales sit 34th in the FIFA rankings, with the Albanian team sixty-first, Ireland sixty-second, Bosnia-Herzegovina seventy-fifth and the Kosovan side eighty-fourth.

Albania enjoyed a solid qualifying campaign, with their only defeats coming at the hands of Group K winners England, who secured full points without allowing a single goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and Lazio's Elseid Hysaj are part of the Red and Blacks's recognizable players, though it was ex- Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford striker Rey Manaj who topped their scoring tally in the qualifiers with three goals.

Notably, the Albanians have not yet earned a spot for a World Cup, although they participated at the 2016 European Championship and the 2024 Euros, not managing to reach the knockout stages on each occasions.

As Slovenia and Sweden endured poor runs, with both failing to win a qualification match, Group B was a direct battle between Switzerland and Kosovo.

The Swiss finished the six-game qualifiers three points ahead of Kosovo, whose one defeat came at the hands of the pool winners.

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

They have not yet played the Welsh team.

Bosnia-Herzegovina lost only one time in qualifying, and claimed a points more than the Welsh achieved in their 8 games, but nonetheless ended 2 points behind of their group winners Austria.

They were a quarter of an hour away from securing a spot at the World Cup, but Michael Gregoritsch's equaliser for the Austrians meant the teams drew in the last game of qualifying and Ralf Rangnick's team won the pool.

The Welsh have failed to beat the Bosnian side in 4 matches but did have a memorable defeat against Zmajevi as they earned qualification for the 2016 European Championship under Chris Coleman even after losing.

As his nation's historic top goalscorer and record appearance player, ex- Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, now at Fiorentina, is unquestionably Bosnia's star player.

The 39-year-old was his team's leading goalscorer in the qualifiers with five goals.

Lastly, we have Republic of Ireland.

After secured only a single point from their opening three 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 scoring a triple – with the third goal coming in the 96th minute – as the Republic of Ireland stunned Hungary to secure runner-up place in Group F in dramatic fashion.

Talisman Seamus Coleman played a vital role in his team's resurgence while Premier League keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has secured the starting jersey his own.

The Republic of Ireland are without a win in their past four meetings with Wales, losing 3 of those, although James McClean broke the hearts of the Welsh fans as Martin O'Neill's men won a decisive World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.