Nathan Blake
Former Wales striker on BBC Radio Wales

What a national anthem that was amazing, a good start from Wales, people are saying Poland will have the ball a lot more than we will, I don't think we can afford Poland to have the ball.

We have to get after them, we have to hurry them, we have to force the mistakes.

Poland fans making a lot of noise.

It's raucous in this stadium.

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Jayne Ludlow
Former Wales manager on BBC Radio 5 Live

I'd love to think we can do it in the 90 minutes, we've got big-game players in that starting 11, they perform when the pressure is on.

That's how I'm looking at tonight, we can do this.

Former Wales midfielder Joe Allen speaking on Sgorio: Playing at home is huge. This crowd will push the boys for 90 minutes and they'll respond to that and put 100% in. Everyone here is full of energy and I'm looking forward to a great start.

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Polish effort from about 700-yards out to start us off.

If you don't buy a ticket.... An early touch for Danny Ward anyway.

Italian Referee Daniele Orsato gets us under way in Cardiff.

Here we go.

Now the Poland fans boo the Welsh national anthem.

Those around me in the press box are singing a little louder.

Strange anthem beef tonight, unexpected.

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Dave Edwards
Former Wales Midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

Poland have had a very up and down qualifying campaign, Wales shouldn't fear Poland tonight at all.

Poland obviously still have a lot of quality in their ranks, but I feel both teams are similarly matched in terms of where they both currently are.

That home advantage can be the deciding factor for Wales.

Helen Ward
Former Chelsea and Wales striker on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Robert Lewandowski is a fantastic player, he's the big threat on the night, you need to stop the ball getting to him so that he has less of an impact.

That is probably the bigger job tonight, the likes of Chris Mepham, Ben Davies and Joe Rodon are going to know what they're up against and will have to be at their best tonight.

The Poland fans light flares during their anthem.

The Wales fans boo.

Former Wales midfielder Joe Allen speaking on Sgorio: One change to the team with Kieffer Moore starting which maybe shows we've got a slightly different tonight.

I'm sure we'll use his power and strength in the air and we should cross the ball in as often as we can tonight.

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A wall of noise greets the players before that generic UEFA anthem.

Wales and Poland fans in great voice.

Chris Wathan
BBC Sport Wales

The play-off record of Wales’ men is not a lengthy one – and it is a case of two out of three ain’t bad.

Wales reached both the World Cups of 1958 and 2022 via the play-offs.

John Charles and co beat Israel over two-legs back to reach Sweden 1958 - Wales' historic first major tournament qualification.

And then two years ago – in the new format also being used for these play-offs – Rob Page’s side reached Qatar after two goals from Gareth Bale saw off Austria in a March semi-final before Bale again struck to sneak past Ukraine in the June.

The only Euro play-off came almost 20 years ago when Wales faced Russia over two-legs after finishing behind Italy in the race to reach Euro 2004.

And after a promising goalless draw in Moscow in November 2023, dreams of Portugal were dashed in the Millennium Stadium four days later when Vadim Yevseyev’s 21st minute header was enough to beat Mark Hughes' team.

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Nathan Blake
Former Wales striker on BBC Radio Wales

Rob Page could have won every game and he would still get criticism. If you're Rob Page you have to shut everything out and concentrate on the job at hand, simple as.

Zombie. Zombie Nation.

Here come the teams.

Wales manager Rob Page on Sgorio: We're blessed now that we've got strength in depth and we need energy. We had energy on Thursday night and David Brooks was a key part of that with and without the ball and to ask him to go again is a big ask for someone who isn't playing 90 minutes week in week out.

Kieffer Moore is fresh, raring to go, because of the physicality and the press Poland pose, we may have to play over them into Kieffer and with Harry Wilson and Brennan Johnson it's an exciting front three.

If and when we get through to a major tournament you're playing against very good teams so you're going to have to compete against them and Poland are certainly that. They've got great individual players and are great as a team, but so are we.

We are a team that are developing and on a journey, young Jordan James will learn a lot from this experience, we've given ourselves a great opportunity and the buzz in the changing room they're really up for it.

The players have earnt the right to be here, to be one win from a major tournament is great. Nothing gets handed to you, we've got to match the performances against Croatia, Finland and Turkey, if we do that, the result takes care of itself.

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Dave Edwards
Former Wales midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

The atmosphere will be electric tonight, the boys will need it, they will need the red wall.

Tonight will be a tougher test than what Wales got on Thursday.

Pavel Gadk, 33, from Poland took the day off work to fly over to support his national team.

But he's feeling cautious of Wales’ strong home run at Cardiff City Stadium, where they've won 14 of their past 15 Euro qualifiers.

“We think it will be a draw: 1-1. The teams are very similar,” says Pavel.

“It is a difficult place to be and to play.”

Like many Welsh Red Wall fans, he's hoping Poland win tonight so he can go on another trip to Germany for Euro 2024.

“I think we have a good national team. It is great when our national team is at these tournaments,” he says.

Connor Roberts has an unusual lucky charm he hopes will inspire Wales to qualify for Euro 2024 - his moustache.

The Leeds United right-back, on loan from Burnley, will be part of the Wales team taking on Poland in their play-off final in Cardiff tonight.

And he will do so while sporting a bit of facial hair which has coincided with a fine run of form for his club and country.

"It's just a little bit of a joke to be honest," Roberts explained.

"My wife last year, she was like 'Why don't you grow it?' so I did and then we went on an unbeaten run at Burnley.

"I've done the same thing this year and keep asking her if I should shave it off but she likes it so I'm leaving it there.

"I think it has played about 25 Championship games and never lost, so I hope that continues in the Championship and maybe it gives us a bit of luck on Tuesday.

"It's the power of the 'tache, isn't it?"

Captain Ben Davies says he could never have imagined being on the brink of a fourth major tournament with Wales.

Wales aim to reach their third consecutive European Championship by beating Poland in their Euro 2024 play-off final in Cardiff tonight.

The Tottenham defender, 30, is one of four survivors from Chris Coleman's squad that qualified for Euro 2016, reaching the semi-finals in France.

"Welsh football was in a pretty sticky place before Euro 2016," said Davies.

"I remember before that campaign we felt that would be our best opportunity to qualify and I think breaking down that barrier [was important] and showing it is possible that if you put just a run of a couple of games together then qualification is there in your hands.

"We have shown we have big players stepping up in big moments over and over and a chance to do it four times is something I probably never imagined happening."

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