Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey was hailed as "world class" after his outstanding display
Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey was hailed as "elite" after his extraordinary showcase, with nine recoveries, guaranteed a 1-0 triumph over Ukraine in Sunday's season finisher and a spot in the World Cup finals.
Hennessey was picked by break supervisor Rob Page for the capability decider having stepped in for best option Danny Ward when he was harmed for the season finisher semi-final win against Austria.
The 35-year-old has spent this previous Premier League season as back-up keeper at Burnley however notwithstanding his absence of first-group activity he conveyed a game dominating execution.
"He was grand, top notch," said Page, "I pulled Wardy (for a talk) and showed him that regard that I was beginning Wayne, it was simply in light of the fact that he played in the elimination round and didn't let us down so it would have been unforgiving to drop him. I thought he went to another level this evening," he added.
Hennessey's sharpness kept Wales in the game a troublesome opening half hour when he made three significant recoveries and late he delivered the best save of all with a one-gave palm to keep out a header from Artem Dovbyk.
The previous Crystal Palace and Wolverhampton Wanderers keeper, who was showing up for his nation, said he had saved his best execution for Wales for the main match.
"That is the best game I've had in a Welsh shirt, I'm humming," he said.
"It's staggering. Everybody on the pitch this evening was astounding, and, surprisingly, the individuals who didn't make it on.
"We're a little country, and it's perfect to take everybody to a World Cup," he added.
Skipper Gareth Bale, who drove Wales to the elimination rounds of Euro 2016, said that arriving at the World Cup, which had escaped the group beginning around 1958, was a stunningly better achievement.
"The outcome is the best in Welsh football history. We're going to a World Cup," he said.
"It means the world, what lies under the surface for dreams, we've been making progress toward it since I previously came in here. Words can't portray how we feel right now."
"Adequately expressing it is troublesome. It's what we've been really going after our professions for and to do this for the fans, the country, ourselves and our families is a unimaginable accomplishment, and it will be something that we will be perpetually pleased with," added the previous Real Madrid midfielder, who is presently a free specialist.
"It means the world. It is the last piece of the jigsaw that we as a whole needed and we will celebrate well this evening."
Grains will confront England, Iran and the United States in World Cup bunch B in Qatar in November.
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