Rob Page calls the backing from his players ‘powerful’ after Wales beat Latvia

Rob Page known as the backing from his players “powerful” after Wales bounced again into Euro 2024 qualifying rivalry with a 2-0 victory in Latvia.

A penalty from skipper Aaron Ramsey – his one hundredth profession aim – and a scrumptious David Brooks chip deep into stoppage time put Wales inside three factors of a top-two place and lifted the strain on under-fire supervisor 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 Page throughout the build-up to a recreation many noticed as pivotal in the supervisor’s tenure.

Page stated of the players’ help: “It feels good, it feels highly effective, completely – that’s an enormous praise to myself from the players.

“I’ve simply stated to them, even the lads that haven’t performed, all of them play an element. There aren’t any unhealthy eggs in that altering room.

“Pressure 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 attainable.

“We knew it was going to be a tricky check for us after their heavy defeat. It wasn’t nearly the win, I believed the efficiency was excellent.

“For the first 35 minutes of the first half, we were outstanding, kept the ball. We got the goal and then retreated a little bit, which we’ll address.”

Wales had quite a few probabilities to place the recreation past Latvia after Harry Wilson was bundled over in the field after 28 minutes and Ramsey transformed from 12 yards.

But none have been taken till the sixth minute of stoppage time when Brooks, on for the injured Ramsey, accepted Wilson’s go to fit residence his first Wales aim since recovering from most cancers final yr.

Page stated: “The strain got here from the outdoors, understandably, however we by no means questioned it inside the group.

“We knew we needed to give a optimistic response after the disappointment of June (Euro 2024 marketing campaign defeats to Armenia and Turkey) and we completely have – and a few.

“A terrific efficiency in opposition to a really, excellent (South) Korea workforce final week and adopted it up with a very totally different check in opposition to a really bodily workforce that went again to entrance fairly a bit.

“We needed to win first contacts and second balls.

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— Wales