A semi-final tie with Portugal is all that stands between Wales and a place in the Euro 2016 final and, speaking at his post-match press conference, Coleman was left to come to terms with the magnitude of his side’s performance.
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“As for my club situation, I’ve been at Reading for 12 years”.
Davies’ yellow card was particularly hurtful as it would rule him out of a potential semi-final, but there was more pain for Wales after Wayne Hennessey had foiled Yannick Carrasco and Neil Taylor had blocked Meunier’s follow-up on the line.
The Red Devils suffered a shock 3-1 last-eight defeat in Lille on Saturday (AEST) despite having taken the lead through Radja Nainggolan.
All three Welsh goal scorers against Belgium, ranked second best team in the world, were English – Ashley Williams, 31, from Wolverhampton, Sam Vokes, 26, was born in Southampton and Hal Robson-Kanu, 27, is from Acton, west London.
Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois refused to back coach Marc Wilmots after Belgium crashed out of Euro 2016 on Friday night.
“If you are lucky enough to be involved in it, it’s indescribable”.
“It’s a great example by everybody that if you just believe, work hard enough… you need a bit of talent, of course, but you have to work hard and that’s what we’ve done”.
Coleman’s side will have the chance to go one better in Lille, where they will face a Belgium team among the favourites for the tournament after hitting top gear in a 4-0 win over Hungary in the last 16. But we’re still here, we’re still together and still enjoying us. We took the game to Belgium for long periods. We played very well tonight and I think we deserved the win. Four years ago we were as far away from where we are now as we could be.
“We’ll recover from this game in the next couple of days and we’ll move forward to Portugal”.
The Belgians chose to pay tribute to Wales’s incredible performance by giving their fans a guard of honour as they departed the Stade Pierre Mauroy.
“But I am confident in the team we have and the players we have that they can step in and do a job and hopefully can get us to the final”.
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James Moore, 24, originally from Bridgend, said: “I was just amazed when we qualified, I was amazed when we topped the group and I’ll be amazed when the lads make history by beating Belgium”.
