World Cup 2022: 'Let's show the world what Wales are really about - Ashley Williams

Wales are successful a weird presumption for the adjacent mates of days due to the fact that we are not decidedly retired of the World Cup yet, but we cognize we are really.

That's the mentality I would person arsenic a subordinate successful this concern and past if by immoderate occurrence we bash enactment successful the tournament, the celebrations would beryllium unbelievable.

So we person to assistance ourselves for this last crippled successful Group B and it evidently truly helps that we are playing England connected Tuesday.

That's a monolithic juncture successful immoderate situation, but particularly due to the fact that it's the archetypal clip we person met astatine a World Cup.

We haven't beaten them since 1984 so, if we win, whoever scores volition astir apt beryllium a leader for beingness successful Wales.

'England are ever the favourites against Wales'

No-one volition springiness america a accidental against England and I cognize the feeling. I played them 3 times for Wales, and they were the favourites connected each occasion.

In 2011, erstwhile we faced them location and distant successful the aforesaid qualifying radical for Euro 2012, we did consciousness similar immense underdogs. It was a spot of a small member versus large member scenario, and our feeling was 'let's spot what we tin get'.

And, astatine Wembley, we astir did get something. Rob Earnshaw had a large accidental to nick a constituent for america precocious connected but fired implicit the bar.

When we played them next, astatine Euro 2016, it was different. I was skipper and we were bang up for that one, I tin guarantee you.

We went 1-0 up done a Gareth Bale free-kick and, adjacent erstwhile England equalised astatine the commencement of the 2nd half, we were the ones pushing for a winner.

We felt we could get it too, and past we were deed by a stinger close astatine the extremity erstwhile Daniel Sturridge scored their victor successful stoppage time.

At nary point, though, did we consciousness arsenic if we had nary accidental and it volition beryllium the aforesaid with this team, contempt their disappointing performances truthful acold successful Qatar.

The quality six years agone was that we had virtually a afloat squad of Premier League players, who were each playing regularly.

And we besides had 2 peculiar players successful Aaron Ramsey and Gareth Bale. Gaz was 1 of the champion 3 players successful the satellite then, without a shadiness of a doubt, but Ramsey was sensational for america successful France too.

Neither of them person been astatine that level here, unfortunately. It's not for immoderate deficiency of effort, but I americium definite Gaz would admit these 2 games person not been his best.

It is the aforesaid with Aaron. He has worked truthful hard successful some games but it has conscionable not happened for him erstwhile helium has got connected the shot successful the mode we are utilized to seeing.

This time, against England, we whitethorn request idiosyncratic other to measurement up. I'd emotion for Brennan Johnson to get a extremity and marque a sanction for himself astatine the commencement of his Wales vocation but, whoever manages it, they volition spell down successful Welsh folklore.

'We don't privation to permission nether a cloud'

It's hard to beryllium a person erstwhile you are hurting wrong yourself, but if I was Wales skipper now, I would beryllium doing my upmost to get implicit the Iran crippled and to besides get everyone else's caput close too.

My connection to the different players would beryllium simple: if we are going location successful a fewer days, we don't privation to permission nether the unreality of what happened against Iran. Let's excavation heavy and amusement the satellite what Wales are truly about, which is what we came present to do.

I tin ideate that Friday was 1 of the worst days ever for everyone connected to the team. I cognize it was horrible for the fans, but it is magnified 100 times erstwhile you are successful the camp.

The players volition person had a pugnacious fewer hours but they inactive person different crippled and different accidental to alteration the temper and the mode this tourney volition beryllium remembered.

'I americium assured Wales tin crook this around'

We can't kick astir wherever we are successful Group B. We are bottommost due to the fact that we haven't performed, oregon done ourselves justice.

The Iran decision was the archetypal clip successful a agelong clip that questions person been asked astir this team. Now it is clip for them to amusement what they are made of, and excavation in.

They did that against Austria and Ukraine to get america here, and galore times erstwhile I was with them too.

I americium bully mates with astir of them. I cognize their characters and mentality and I cognize they tin crook this around.

I americium not talking astir reaching the past 16, due to the fact that that has gone now. We don't adjacent person to bushed England, we conscionable person to enactment connected a show for the travelling fans and everyone backmost home.

So, determination is inactive a heck of a batch to play for from our position and it would beryllium the aforesaid adjacent if we were already perfectly definite we were going home.

Ashley Williams was speaking to Chris Bevan successful Doha.

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