New head coach captured imagination of the faithful with the style and spirit against Turkey. Now for Montenegro

Craig Bellamy’s body of work as a manager may contain only 100 minutes of action, tantamount to a mid-morning omnibus edition of EastEnders or Emmerdale, but the early signs suggest his journey in charge of Wales is a soap opera worth watching.

A sodden Friday evening offered a night of great promise in Cardiff, a communal transmission of a much-needed new energy. There was no grand pre-match introduction for Bellamy, who instead let his players broadcast the beginning of this exciting new story; much the same team but, as promised, a radical shift in style. They attacked in a kind of 2-3-5, not 3-5-2.