Wales were unexpected, but wholly deserved, winners in Lille with bookmakers and many neutrals writing off their chances against the highest-ranked team in the tournament.
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Wales are into a major tournament semi-final for the first time, but Robson-Kanu said now was not the moment for any big celebrations.
“I think you dream about nights like this, and you never know whether you’ll be lucky enough to live them”, Coleman said.
“I said in the campaign when we were on top after five games in qualifying to not expect anything from us, to get carried away”.
“It is about this team showing what we are capable of doing and getting to the final”.
“We have to say since that 1958 quarter-final, you have to put this down as the biggest game our country’s been involved in, which is a great place to be and a great pressure to have”. “We have a young team so we can be positive about the future”, the Chelsea star was quoted as saying by goal.com after the loss.
A semi-final clash with Portugal awaits for Chris Coleman’s side, setting up an enticing clash between Bale and his Real Madrid team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo.
Coleman’s first victory as Wales boss came against Scotland in October 2012, a 2-1 win delivered courtesy of two goals from Gareth Bale.
“I think here we were pretty assured and to win 3-1 I think is unbelievable”.
The entire Wales camp has stressed a team effort from the outset, and this includes that influential Aaron Ramsey and defender Ben Davies will miss the next game owing to suspensions.
“I’m gutted for Aaron”. “At the end of the match we all said that we would have liked to continue because we have a lot of quality, but they played with more desire than us today”.
There seemed to be a sense of resignation among the Belgium fans amidst speculation that Marc Wilmots was not up to the job of leading the team to success at Euro 2016, however, and Thibaut Courtois admitted as much when asked after the game about where they went wrong. We got to the quarter finals but we wanted to go further because we are competitive.
“We could’ve played better but I can’t really explain why we kept dropping off”.
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“We fought as hard as anyone and covered every blade of grass and we thoroughly deserve to be in the semi-final”, Bale, who has scored three of Wales’ 10 goals in France, told BBC Sport.
