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Welsh Football Weekly: Craig Bellamy can guide young Wales team through stormy waters
Our depleted national team needs the veteran striker to lead by example in matches against Macedonia and Belgium, writes Luke James

It's difficult to tell which of Wales’s next two fixtures has the potential for most embarrassment. Macedonia has been dubbed a win-or-give-up game by Chris Coleman, but they beat us in Skopje last month and Friday night’s game in Cardiff looks like another banana skin.


Belgium have not been beaten in Group A and will want to finish the campaign with a flourish in front of their home crowd on Tuesday.


And our preparations for these two challenges could not have been worse.

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