Wales manager Chris Coleman said yesterday that he believed the late Andorra escape proves his side possess the maturity to mount a successful Euro 2016 campaign.

Gareth Bale’s brilliance eventually put paid to the minnows ranked 199th in the world, with the Real Madrid star scoring twice in a 2-1 win which leaves Wales in good shape heading into next month’s home qualifiers against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cyprus.

Coleman is already eyeing a six-point advantage over Bosnia, who suffered a shock 2-1 home defeat to Cyprus on Tuesday night.

Andorra had stunned Wales by taking the lead with their first goal in competitive football for four years, and Coleman said: “If this was the last campaign I think we would have drawn this game.

“Our heads would have dropped and we would have got disillusioned, but we’ve matured as a team.

“We showed that here and we’ve got to take that into the next game because with the right result against Bosnia there’s a gap there between us and them — six points.

“Bosnia and Belgium are strongly fancied one and two but that’s not how we see it and Cyprus have also sent out a statement by winning.

“We know we can win games and we’ve lost one in six, and that was to Holland after a good performance.

“The boys are doing well, we’re high in the rankings and now we’ve won our first qualifier.”

Yet Coleman was in the firing line until Bale produced another wonderful solo show which deprived Andorra of their first competitive win for 10 years and their first-ever European Championship point.