Gunter: 'We can deal with Ireland's physical threat'

The two sides met in the competition in September, with the Welsh side coming out comfortably on top 4-1, including a great goal from Gareth Bale.

Ryan Giggs's team will have to be without the Real Madrid man for the clash on tuesday, and will have a difficult task to beat the Republic of ireland as a result.

Despite the injury to their star man, froward Chris Gunter thinks that the team have enough quality to deal with the threats the the Irish team pose and bounce back after a disappointing 6-1 friendly loss to Spain on Thursday.

"Sometimes in international football, you don't get a chance to put it right so quickly, but we are in a good position as we have this chance now with another important game." Guneter said.

"Ireland will be a little more physical, but we have stood up to them before and we can look back at those experiences knowing we can deal with them.

"In my experiences of the last couple of years, we have been without key players a few times and haven't done too badly."