Wales come up against former manager as they target second World Cup qualifier win in Estonia days after 6-0 victory

Gemma Grainger's Wales Women are on the road for the first time in their 2023 World Cup qualification campaign - and there will be a familiar face in the opposition dugout

Gemma Grainger's Wales side go in search of a second consecutive World Cup qualifying win on Tuesday when they face Estonia on the road (6pm kick-off), just four days after cruising to a 6-0 victory over Kazakhstan.

In their second match of a new campaign to reach the 2023 World Cup, Wales come up against their former manager and current Estonia boss Jarmo Matikainen.

He was in charge of Wales from 2010-2014.

Former England Women assistant coach Grainger, who took over from Matikainen's successor Jayne Ludlow in March, has her eye on another win in the Estonian city of Parnu and believes there is more to come from her side.

"Estonia are a well-organised team," Grainger said.

"A lot of the girls know the manager from his time here which is useful. I've met Jarmo a few times in different tournaments when we was working with UEFA.

"His experience speaks for itself. Massively respectful to him and the work he did here. Now with Estonia, what we can expect is someone who's going to be very organised and want to make it difficult for us."

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Estonia, ranked 105th in the world compared to Wales at 34, lost 4-0 to 49th-ranked Slovenia last Friday night, but their organisation is something Grainger will be wary of.

"Very organised team, very difficult to break down, very similar to when the Wales men's team played Estonia. What I do know is they're going to be organised and they're not going to make things easy for us," she said.

"We've got to focus on creating chances. We're developing our in-possession style of play and ultimately it's about players expressing themselves, it's about getting our players on the ball who can break them down, whether that's through individuals or combination play."

Wales captain Sophie Ingle is expecting Tuesday's opponents to be more disciplined than their opposition at Parc y Scarlets last week.

"I think they'll potentially be more disciplined than Kazakhstan and be a bit tighter defensively, just because of their manager Jarmo, he always gets his team defensively strong and set up that way," she said.

"They kind of sit in a low block at times, sometimes they're a back four, sometimes they're a back five, so that's for us to realise what formation they're in and where we can hurt them.

"Obviously we can look at how they played the other night and previous games, but it comes down to on the night. We have to work to our strengths and if we can create as many chances as we did the other night then there's no reason why we can't win."

As for the mood on camp, it's a buoyant one after getting their bid to reach the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand off to a flying start.

"It's really positive, as you can imagine, after a great team performance, scoring six goals and keeping a clean sheet," Ingle added.

"You just have to be relentless and try and get as many goals as you can. At the end of the day, it could come down to goal difference.

"When we reviewed the game we said we should have scored more goals, really. That's our standard and we have to keep them high now."

Grainger said: "I think the most positive thing was the way the performance went.

"The games that led into this World Cup campaign, we played higher-ranked opposition, and we had to be brave and we talked about our mentality, about learning what we needed to about ourselves so we could execute in the campaign.

"Although Kazakhstan were a lower-ranked opposition, I think the girls really bought into how we want to play, how we want to execute our game plan.

"It's never really about the other nation, it's about what we want to do and how well we do it.

"The reality is we're in the middle of building what we want to build and deliver for the future and we're really focused on that and we're really ruthless in our approach."