Luke Williams believes Swansea City’s previously shot-shy strikers can build on the club’s first goals for over nine hours. After failing to find the net throughout October, the Swans eventually ended their barren run when Zan Vipotnik turned in Ronald’s cross to spark a 2-1 victory at Oxford United at the weekend.

Wales skipper Aaron Ramsey will miss his side’s push for promotion back to the top tier of the Nations League after being ruled out of their final two fixtures in Group B this month. The Cardiff City midfielder has already missed the last two games after picking up a hamstring injury after coming on as a replacement in the final 10 minutes of the 2-1 win in Montenegro in the second round match in Niksic on 9 September.

When football managers – and rugby coaches – talk about training sessions having “an edge” about them, it normally only means one thing. There’s been a fight. It may not have been full-on, fists swinging, bare-knuckle bruising. But someone, somewhere has over-stepped the mark and tempers have boiled over. Nine times out of 10, managers love this kind of thing. It proves their players are more like thin, hungry dogs, than fat, sleepy cats and they look forward to unleashing the hounds on Saturday afternoon.

Has there ever been a more reliable Welsh footballer than Jess Fishlock? It’s a question worth considering after her country’s heroine once again came to Wales’ rescue late on Tuesday night.

Steve Cooper is facing a touchline ban for Leicester City’s Premier League fixture against Ipswich, having received his third yellow card of the season during the Foxes’ defeat to Manchester United. The Welsh manager’s protests over a potential offside in the lead-up to United’s second goal in their 5-2 Carabao Cup win led referee Andrew Madley to show him a yellow card, a move Cooper later claimed the official “enjoyed” giving.

Ceri Holland finally settled Wales’ near fatal anxieties with the goal that puts her team on the edge of history. After missing countless chances in a one-sided second leg of their play-off semi-final at home to Slovakia, Holland scored the crucial goal eight minutes from the end of extra-time.

Jess Fishlock insists Wales can make it to the Euro 2025 play-off final if they keep cool heads and clear minds when they take on Slovakia on Tuesday night. The Wales star – her country’s best player and inspiration for over a decade – is the potential saviour Wales will look to as they seek to overcome a 2-1 deficit from the first leg.

Omer Riza is forwarding all queries over the Cardiff City manager’s position to the club’s hierarchy. The Bluebirds interim manager is now unbeaten in five matches after a gritty performance eked out a 0-0 draw at West Bromwich Albion.

Two games, two clean sheets and four points – it wasn’t a bad week for Newport County, despite the frustration of missing a penalty in their goalless draw with Fleetwood at Rodney Parade at the weekend. Bryn Morris stepped up in the 25th minute only to see Fleetwood keeper David Harrington, who had moments earlier picked up a yellow card for conceding the spot kick after hauling down Aaron Wildig, save his shot with his legs.

Luke Williams has admitted he has yet to find a solution to Swansea City’s 525 minutes of football without scoring. The Swans head coach watched his team slump to a 1-0 home defeat to Millwall, meaning not only are they without a win in six matches, but they are without a goal in their last five

One of the more eye-catching sights in Welsh football at present is Kyle Hudlin on the hoof. It’s not just that Newport County’s striker is the tallest outfield player in UK professional football at 6ft 9in.

Rhian Wilkinson has admitted Wales have “work to do” if they are to keep alive their dream of making Euro 2025 after a shock 2-1 defeat in Slovakia. Wales’ hopes of reaching their first women’s major tournament finals are on a knife-edge following a massively disappointing performance in a 2-1 play-off first-leg defeat in Poprad.

Craig Harrison is dreaming The New Saints making the knockout stages of a European tournament after they became the first Welsh Premier side to gather points at the group stage of a major European competition. TNS beat Astana from Kazakhstan, 2-0 at The New Meadow, Shrewsbury Town’s ground, to write themselves into the history books.

With 21 goals in their last two games The New Saints will go into their historic first home game against FC Astana in the Group stages of the UEFA Conference League on Thursday full of attacking intent. But it was a similar situation before they faced Serie A giants Fiorentina in their first game at the start of the month, when they headed to Italy on the back of a 6-1 win at Newtown.

Omer Riza has turned the spotlight on Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan by calling for clarity over the managerial position at the club. His bold move comes after the interim boss further strengthened his hand by gaining another convincing victory for a team he has picked off the floor.

Newport County manager Nelson Jardim praised his team’s character as a 2-0 away win at Gillingham moved his team up to 13th spot in League Two. First-half goals from Matt Baker and Kyle Hudlin secured Newport a much-needed victory at out-of-sorts Gillingham.

Luke Williams has admitted to growing frustration over Swansea City’s lack of fire power. Although they gained a useful point in a draw at Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday night, it was a 0-0 stalemate – meaning the Swans have not scored in more than seven hours of football and their winless run now

Five of the dozen JD Cymru Premier clubs were bundled out of the JD Welsh Cup on a bumper weekend of giant-killing acts in the first play-off round. Eliot Evans scored the only goal that took Cardiff Met through with a 1-0 win over Penybont at the home of current Cymru Premier leaders.

Alex Robertson believes Omer Riza’s five-goal job application deserves the thumbs up from Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan. Riza is four games into his interim stint in charge of the Bluebirds and has delivered seven points and eight goals to lift the club from bottom to 22nd in the Championship.

Luke Williams reckons he has identified Swansea City’s problem – his players are too afraid to score goals. The Swans head coach came to that conclusion after watching his team fail to win for the fourth successive match as they lost 1-0 at Blackburn Rovers. As in their previous three matches during their winless streak, his team created chances but failed to take any of them.