and said they are keen to move on, as is Davies.<\/span><\/p>\n“We’ve got a good group here,” the former Swansea City player said.<\/span><\/p>\n“We know what’s expected of us and we’re not looking too far ahead. <\/span><\/p>\n“We can’t take our eyes off the fact that each game is important in itself. If we don’t get a result in Armenia, the Turkey one is kind of irrelevant so it’s important our sole focus is on Armenia.”<\/span><\/p>\nIf Wales do not win both matches against Armenia and Turkey, they will need to rely on other results to qualify automatically for Euro 2024.<\/span><\/p>\nFailing that, if Page’s side finish outside Group D’s top two, they must rely on the play-offs in March to secure their place at next summer’s tournament in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\nWales will be eager to avoid that route and keep their destiny in their own hands, and they can take encouragement from striking similarities between this campaign and their successful bid to qualify for Euro 2020.<\/span><\/p>\nOn that occasion, they lost back-to-back matches in June 2019 before an autumn recovery – including a creditable home draw with Croatia – set up a November finale in which they won in Azerbaijan before beating Hungary at home to seal qualification.<\/span><\/p>\nThis time, having lost to Armenia and Turkey in June, autumn victories over Latvia and Croatia have reignited Welsh hopes ahead of their closing double-header, in Armenia on Saturday and at home to Turkey the following Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n“Of course there are similarities from the last time we qualified,” said Davies.<\/span><\/p>\n“Those last two games are vital. It’s a tight group and they’re always going to come down to it, whatever happens. We’re ready for it. <\/span><\/p>\n“It was obviously disappointing to lose the game at home [to Armenia]. In these groups your home record usually has to be very good. <\/span><\/p>\n“But we’ve been here. We’ve had our backs against the wall and we’ve given ourselves a chance, and it’s exactly the same now.<\/span><\/p>\n“Most of us have been in this situation before and it’s an opportunity for us to do it again.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Davies is aiming to qualify for a fourth major tournament with Wales Venue: Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan Date: Saturday, 18Read More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[895,565,924,1284,1133,42,64,1511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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