Hazard expecting tough Wales encounter tonight

“Belgium won’t change, and if you’re as good as Belgium, then why would you?” said Coleman.

“They’re deemed as an offensive team but if you look at the facts they’ve scored eight — five from counter-attacks, two from set-plays and one from open play.

“We’re deemed a defensive team and we’ve scored seven.

“They’ll play the way they play with imagination, pace and power, but we’ll play the way we play.

“When it is time to defend we’ll do it for our lives, and when it is time to attack we will attack with our lives.

“If we do that, Belgium will know they will be in for a hell of a game because we have done it before.”

Coleman has called the game Wales’ biggest since their 1958 World Cup quarter-final defeat to Brazil in Sweden.

He has told his players to embrace the occasion and says Wales are not just happy to be in the last eight, they want to go further.

“It’s not a feeling that Wales can’t lose, they weren’t meant to be here in the quarter-final, we’re underdogs,” said Coleman, who will have skipper Ashley Williams available after the centre-back damaged a shoulder against Northern Ireland last weekend.

“It’s not the way we see it. It’s a huge challenge but just another one in a line of them we’ve already met.

“I’m not going to play the occasion down. We know what’s at stake, we know we’ve earned it, and it’s a great place to be.

“Since the 1958 quarter-final, we have to put this down as the biggest game our country’s been involved in.”

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