Wales Under-21s reached the play-offs for next year's Uefa European U21 Championships after a superb win in Romania.

Middlesbrough defender Rhys Williams put the weakened Welsh side ahead by firing Aaron Ramsey's 12th-minute corner home from eight yards.

And it was Ramsey's corner on 57 minutes that led to the second goal which Reading's Simon Church grabbed.

A tap-in 10 minutes later by Crystal Palace's Rhoys Wiggins sealed the win.

The victory means Wales win Group 10 and will now be seeded for a favourable draw on Friday for next month's play-offs.

Those games will clash with the senior side's World Cup qualifying matches against Liechtenstein and Germany on 11 and 15 October respectively.

"The lads were absolutely magnificent from start to finish," coach Brian Flynn told BBC Radio Wales Sportstime programme.

"Wales will be proud of them, I'm sure of that, as I am tonight."

Young Wales are bidding to become the first Welsh international soccer team to qualify for a major finals since the great John Charles and his fellow immortals featured in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.

And they had to beat Romania after losing to them a fortnight ago in Wrexham and losing top spot in the group.

"We were disappointed to lose, but Romania knew that they weren't going to get an easy game over here," said Flynn.

"They knew we would contest it from start to finish and that's what we did.

"In the last two games, we haven't scored, but there's goals in the team and I said to the lads if we scored we would win the game.

"There are some big teams ahead like Germany, Spain, England, Portugal and Croatia.

"They are top, top nations in Europe which we will be coming up against which is mouth-watering for us."

Romania U21: Tatarusanu, Homei (Ochirosii 69), Tudose, Mardare, Sepsi, Tanase (Deac 45), Ropotan, Chiacu, Keseru, Torje (Bicfalvi 58), Stancu.
Subs: Panitilimon, Latovlevici, Luchin, Hora.

Booked: Stancu, Mardare, Chiacu, Ochirosii.

Wales U21: fon Williams, Blake (Mike Williams 21), Wiggins, Ramsey, Eardley, Rhys Williams, King, Bradley, Church, MacDonald, Adams.
Subs: North, Allen, Basey, Brown, Klein-Davies.

Booked: Rhys Williams.

Goals: Rhys Williams 12, Church 57, Wiggins 67

Att: 8,000

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