There are “a few hundred” Welsh fans in situ in Baku. Here are some of them, recovering from a long flight.

Rob Page talks to the BBC. “We want to get the best 11 on the pitch, and the team picks the formation. That’s what we’ve done, we had that in mind all along. We’ve used the two friendlies to get minutes into the players and get them in the right position to play today. It’s a good problem to have when you have great goalkeepers. Neither are playing domestic football so I had to go with my gut on that one; Danny Ward has played his way into the team. It was always the plan to manage Aaron Ramsey slightly differently to the rest of the group. In the main he’s trained every day, it was just when the press were here we chose to keep him off the grass. There was no concern, and he was on the team sheet. If I’m the opposing manager and I’m looking at that teamsheet … it’s exciting on paper!”

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