WALES skipper Ashley Williams is proud of his side’s incredible defensive record, but admits the squad feel disappointed despite an extremely productive international break.

Gareth Bale’s bullet header to earn a hard-fought 1-0 win in Cyprus was followed up by a dominant performance, albeit in only drawing 0-0 with Israel at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Wales need just another point from their remaining two Group B qualifiers against Bosnia and Andorra to confirm their entry into next summer’s European Championships in France.

The point against Israel ensures Wales remain top of the group and Bale’s goalscoring form – he’s the joint second top scorer in the qualifiers with six goals – hasn’t been the only key factor, with the Welsh defence performing their own heroics.

They conceded against Andorra and Cyprus, matches one and three in the campaign, but Wayne Hennessey hasn’t been beaten since, meaning Wales haven’t conceded a competitive goal since October 2014.

Williams is the bedrock of that rearguard and he expressed pride at another clean sheet, if disappointment at failing to secure qualification with two games to spare.

“Mixed emotions a little bit, it’s a bit of an anti-climax but we have to take the positives, it’s another point towards where we want to go and another clean sheet. We are nearly there,” he said.

“It’s a bit disappointing for everyone involved, you feel a little bit down for some reason (not to win the game), but then you’ve got to remember what happened, we are in a strong position.

“It would have been nice to get it done at home, but we really need to push on. A lot of the boys were a bit leggy, it was a quick turnaround after the flight home from Cyprus and we just didn’t really have it in us.

“But it says something we are feeling disappointed when we are still top of the group.

“I am sure during the week we’ll get to enjoy this; we’ve had a good week and played well in both games. Israel came for the draw and got it.

“We performed to a good level and that’s five clean sheets on the spin now and it felt like they were never going to score, we just had to concentrate on not making any silly mistakes.”

Williams felt Wales missed the opportunity for victory in spurning some good early chances.

“I think we needed to score in that early period when we were very dominant, because then they would have had to come at us a bit and that would’ve made things easier for us,” he said.

“We were in a bit of limbo with the Cyprus game, which we watched, it hasn’t happened for us and we just want to qualify now as soon as possible.

“The way Israel played, just really happy to get a point out of it and that shows the progress we’ve made.

“I thought we should have had a lot of things that didn’t go our way, but we needed to score the goals we normally do, but it didn’t happen for us.”