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Caerphilly-born Dylan Lawlor delivered a man of the match performance on his international debut as Wales beat Kazakhstan in a World Cup qualifying match on Thursday.

Wales earned a 1-0 win away in Astana, with manager Craig Bellamy singling out the 19-year-old Cardiff City defender for praise.

Speaking to Sgorio after the match, Bellamy said: “He’s just a good player. Good players are good players. I feel sometimes we can say they’re either too old or too young. We’ll look for every excuse going – it’s our nature as people.

“For me, when someone says you can’t, it’s because they’re so afraid you will.

“He’s a good footballer. He’s playing games and that’s important as well because we’ve got a lot of players who are not playing regularly at the moment, which is usually the case.

“But he had a rhythm and you could see he’s been playing games – and with his quality as well, it was a top performance from him today, and we needed him.”