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That's the end of our coverage of a night when Wales were beaten but by no means embarrassed.

It's difficult to be too positive about a defeat, but a 1-0 loss in Portugal is a valiant effort given the gulf between the squads in terms of individual quality.

Craig Bellamy's pride over aspects of his team's performance is understandable.

Wales are still waiting for a first win in the top tier of the Nations League but, on this evidence, they should at least be able to compete in this group.

Next up is Denmark in Copenhagen on Sunday.

Once again, you can follow the action live with the BBC. See you then.

Nia Jones
Former Wales international on Match of the Day Wales

The biggest thing for me is confidence.

They silenced the crowd with how they started the game and how they grew into the game in the second half.

And the Denmark game in terms of rankings is the one Wales have the most chance of winning.

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Wales head coach Craig Bellamy speaking on Match of the Day Wales:

“There are a lot of positives. It’s a tough game. We knew we would suffer. I spoke to the players before the game and told them to enjoy suffering.

"There were certain periods where I really liked it but felt we could have made more use of the ball when we had it. Portugal created a lot of overloads; it was a hard task.

We have a lot of players who don’t play regular football. To ask them to come into this level... I’m ridiculously proud of them.

"I wasn’t nervous. You’re playing against a £1.4 billion squad; maybe you should be, but I wasn’t. Only because of the players we have- they give you that confidence.

"You know they are going to stick in and give everything they have. It was needed today. We have one or two chances. I’m not saying in overall play we deserved to win.

"But it could have been something for us today. It’s a loss; we are not always happy about that, but it will give us something to improve from. We have to take it.

"We need intensity. I don’t want to bore people, but it’s Champions League level in the press.

"We have a lot of players who are not exposed to that, and we will have to freshen it up. After 60 minutes, you could see we were dropping off.

"We have to use the squad and expose players. Of course, we were disappointed not to score in the second half, but everything about the performance was top."

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Jordan James speaking on Match of the Day Wales:

"It was a tough game of course, we knew it was going to be. But I think we had real chances in the game that we could've put away.

"If we were a little bit better on the ball we could've created more, but we are happy with the performance. We were unfortunate not to get a point at least but we're now looking forward to Sunday.

"I don't think you can come up against better opposition than that and you could see that we could compete against them. As a team we stuck together and put in a really good performance.

"Denmark have a lot of quality and that's why we are in League A. But we deserve to be here, we're looking forward to it but it's another big test."

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Ben Davies speaking on Match of the Day Wales:

“On another day it could have gone another way. It’s disappointing but we played good football.

"We could have done better, but it’s not an easy place to come. There are positives to take from it.

“We have no doubt that we were going to fight. That’s the bare minimum. We showed a lot of guts to come out here and have a good go.

“It’s a shot from outside the box which could go anywhere [that won the game]. Unfortunately, it took a deflection off me. They had other good chances, too.

“We are more than capable of playing teams at this level. We just played one of the best and gave them a good go. I’m looking forward to the next one.”

John Hartson
Former Wales striker on Match Of The Day Wales

Ashley Williams will have an impact defensively, I'm sure of that.

He has won an awful lot of caps and he will be well respected by the players.

Robert Earnshaw
Former Wales striker on Match of the day Wales

What I loved from Lewis Koumas is his energy, also his willingness and his fearlessness to say I am going to run, I am going to press.

You could just see the moments that could turn into chances and goals for him. I see high potential for him.

I thought he was really good.

Robert Earnshaw
Former Wales striker on Match of the day Wales

I think he'll make a minimum of three changes.

There is potential there and I can see a big game for Wales and I hope so, sometimes the hardest game is the first one.

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Bruno Fernandes speaking on Match of the Day Wales:

"I think it was a very good game. We controlled it and had a lot of chances but were not capable of scoring more. We wanted the three points and got that.

"We always have a point to prove. The expectations are high on ourselves. It’s a positive win for us.

"We knew they (Wales) were good. If they play in the Premier League, they need to be at a high level.

"We knew they could cause us problems. We scored one, and we didn’t concede. That’s the big thing."

John Hartson
Former Wales striker on Match Of The Day Wales

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We missed chances. I'm not criticising any of the forwards because you have to be in those positions to score them.

I liked the way Brennan Johnson never gave his opportunity up, Lewis Koumas and Dan James got in each other's way, but I cannot believe we didn't get an equaliser there.

I thought we were so unfortunate.

Robert Earnshaw
Former Wales striker on Match of the day Wales

I actually think Portugal are not a very good team.

They have good players individually, but there are so many gaps, they don't pressure a lot.

They played a little bit like we saw in the World Cup - in second and third gear and thinking 'we'll be all right because we have the names'.

If you are really honest, Portugal got away with it.

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Ethan Ampadu speaking on Match of the Day Wales:

"We are disappointed with the goal. We knew it was going to be a tough game against tough opposition with a lot of quality, which they showed at times.

"We knew were going to have to suffer at times. We wanted to make a real statement and show what we can do with the ball. At times we did, but something we can improve on is to do it a bit more.

"We were always going to work hard, we've shown that over a countless number of years now, but that's a given and we don't really need to talk about that.

"It's tough and there were a couple of chances at the end where we could've got a goal and that would have it a better feeling but it's never nice to lose."

Robert Earnshaw
Former Wales striker on Match of the day Wales

We pressed high against one of the top teams and stole the ball off them. We just didn't take our chances.

I think Craig will be feeling there were really good things and that maybe we can start [like we finished] and cause an upset against Denmark or Norway.

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Second half Craig Bellamy really went for it. There will be frustrations.

I think he will be proud of the way his players have gone about it.

A lot of people expected it to be two or three [goals], I did, I thought we were really up against it.

There are loads of positives to take out of tonight.

Ian Mitchelmore
BBC Sport Wales at Estadio Jose Alvalade

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I don't think many Wales fans expected that tonight.

They were outplayed for long spells, but they very nearly left Lisbon with a point in the end.

Given the gulf in class between the squads, Craig Bellamy and his players can be hugely proud of their efforts.

The men in yellow go over to applaud the packed out away end to the left of the press box.

The Red Wall belt out chants of 'Wales, Wales, Wales'.

Nathan Blake
Former Wales striker on BBC Radio Wales

It was difficult for Wales after Portugal took the lead in the first half.

But the second half for Wales was really encouraging, the substitutions, fresh legs, change of shape helped Wales.

I don't think Craig Bellamy will be happy with the defeat, but I think he'll be happy with the performance and the way they lost.

Robert Earnshaw
Former Wales striker on Match of the day Wales

The longer the game went at 1-0, you can feel 'actually we are still in this'.

Maybe the belief came a little bit too late.

Potentially that's a huge upset so there might be a bit of disappointment in the dressing room, thinking we had our chances.

Norway were 3-2 winners over Denmark tonight so Wales are bottom of the group as things stand.

It is a still very early in the group of course.