JAMES Chester says manager Chris Coleman has got the Wales players believing they can beat anyone at Euro 2016.

After seeing off Northern Ireland on Saturday, Wales face a step up in class when they take on Belgium in Friday’s quarter-final in Lille.

But Chester, who has excelled in the Welsh defence in France, believes Coleman and his staff can keep the team on track for an historic place in the last four.

“It’s great working for the manager,” said the West Bromwich Albion centre-back.

“The whole group enjoy meeting up and playing for him and I think that shows – we give everything for him every game.

“The way he gets us up for games is second to none but the preparation that goes in to matches behind the scenes with him and the staff has been really noticeable and impressive.

“I don’t think there’s a game we’ve gone into believing we wouldn’t get a result.”

Chester admits that the players never expected to make the quarter-finals but, now that they are there, they don’t want to go home just yet.

“We all enjoyed the moment in the dressing room,” he said.

“It’s an opportunity that I don’t think we dreamed we’d get and one that perhaps won’t come around very often in our careers.

“So I think we’ll enjoy it because we’re somewhere we perhaps didn’t expect to be.

“But we’ve got a real opportunity now to do something even better so we’ll be preparing well.

“We’ve come up against Belgium fairly often in qualifying campaigns and played well against them and I think the onus will be on them.”

Wales will certainly have to improve against Belgium having struggled to break down a dogged Northern Ireland defence.

“We were all well aware of the kind of game it was going to be,” said Chester.

“Northern Ireland have done exceptionally well to get to where they have done and to go on a 12-game unbeaten run shows how organised they are and how difficult they are to play against.

“I don’t think they’ve been well beaten in the tournament so we knew it was going to be a frustrating affair.

“But they’d had a difficult game against Germany and they’d had to do a lot of running.

“The subs that came on stretched the game a little bit and I think we managed to get the ball down the sides a bit more and made it more difficult for them.”

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