Just when Wales thought they had done enough to earn an unthinkable comeback draw, having trailed 3-0 inside 27 minutes, Kevin De Bruyne wheeled away in celebration, arms splayed, after regaining the lead for Belgium. Now it was 4-3, Wales’s extraordinary work to bounce up off the canvas undone but not forgotten, Craig Bellamy’s unbeaten run finally over.
In the city of the Delirium Village, a cul-de-sac near the Grand Place with a bar sporting a Guinness world record for the most varieties of beer, the Wales supporters who made the pilgrimage felt deliriousness turn to disappointment. It should not linger too long given the manner of Wales’s response from the moment Jérémy Doku, not for the first time, made those in red shirts look silly before firing a shot into the far corner to make it 3-0.
