Wales coach Chris Coleman is very optimistic that Wales
can secure qualification for next year's World Cup despite a fifth straight
draw. Aleksandar Mitrovic struck in
the second half to secure a point for Serbia after Aaron Ramsey put the visitors ahead in Belgrade.
The result has left Wales four
points behind Group D leaders Serbia with four games remaining, but Coleman is
confident his side can make up the difference.
He said “Serbia have
got to go to Austria and they have to go to Republic of Ireland, Austria have
to come to us next. Republic of Ireland come to us in the last game so I think
it will go down to the wire. There's a lot of good teams in this group and we
probably just played the strongest, certainly at home. People look at it as
four points with four games to play, can we bridge that gap? Absolutely, 100
per cent. We are looking forward to the remaining challenges in this campaign. I
think it was a great point, the fact we were 1-0 up - really we huffed and
puffed a little bit - but it wasn't like they were peppering our goal. You
expect a tough game when you come here but I thought over the 90 minutes we had
the better chances. The game-plan worked to a tee. We are not going to come
here and play open football. We have done that before and we know what
happened. Everything I asked from the players, they did, so there is nothing I
can complain about. The work-rate, considering the date of this game in the
middle of June, was incredible. Joe
Ledley has not played for three or four months and he gave us 90 minutes.
That's the type of togetherness these boys have got. You need that to come here
and get anything.”
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