Wales kept up their unbeaten start to their World Cup qualifying campaign with a straightforward 3-0 win over Liechtenstein in Cardiff.
Ahead of Monday's clash with top seeds Belgium, Wales ultimately made light work of their Goup J opponents with a professional performance at the Cardiff City Stadium. Quickfire second-half goals from Harry Wilson and Kieffer Moore sealed the win after Joe Rodon had opened the scoring before the break.
Craig Bellamy had admitted ahead of the match that he'd been having sleepless nights ahead of facing a tiny principality that had not won a competitive game in five years.
On the night when Belgium started their own World Cup qualifying campaign with a 1-1 draw against North Macedonia in Skopje, simply maintaining his unbeaten start to life as Wales manager with three points against the minnows would be enough for Bellamy.
"Win the game," he said in the week. "That is it."
12 months to the day from a goalless draw against Gibraltar towards the end of Rob Page's reign, few Welsh fans would blame him for that attitude.
Unsurprisingly, the man who had lost sleep over the world's 205th side lived every kick in the early exchanges.
From the off, Wales dominated possession as you would expect.
Wanting to inject pace into the game from the first whistle, the Wales manager had his head in his hands after one quick free-kick was pedantically pulled back.
Wilson had an early effort sail off-target, before Neco Williams could only find the arms of goalkeeper Benjamin Buchel with a shot from outside the box.
Just three of Liechtenstein's squad in Cardiff are professional, with Swiss-based goalkeeper Buchel one of them.
That shone through on the fair occasions in the opening exchanges when Wales tested
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