Wales needed to beat Croatia to keep their automatic qualification hopes alive and how they got a barnstorming performance to match. Harry Wilson was the match-winner on a supercharged night, scoring twice to hoist Wales into second in Group D and take matters into their hands, but there were no end of moments to savour from this monumental victory over a team ranked sixth in the world.
None more so than the sight of Wales’s centre-back, Ben Davies, the captain’s armband on his left biceps, on the rampage, on a one-man mission to close down the Croatia goalkeeper, Dominik Livakovic, midway through the second half before then going to ground to nick the ball from Luka Modric.
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