Wales' youngsters produced a sensational victory in Iasi to clinch a place in the UEFA Championship play-offs.

The seemingly unlikely victory means they have won Group 10 ahead of France, and will now be seeded for a favourable draw for the play-offs in October.

Those games will clash with the World Cup matches against Liechtenstein and Germany on October 11 and 15 respectively.

It will once again give senior boss John Toshack a selection headache as he will want to help the under-21s as much as he can by releasing senior squad players still young enough to help the cause.

But that is a problem for the future. For now, Wales can celebrate a remarkable performance by arguably their best under-21 side in history.

Having needed three points from their last two group matches, both against the Romanians, to claim an unprecedented place in the play-offs for next summer's finals in Sweden, Wales looked like they had blown their chances a fortnight ago when they were beaten 1-0 by Romania in Wrexham.

On that night coach Brian Flynn had the benefit of all the senior squad players who still qualify for the under-21s. Wayne Hennessey, Gareth Bale, Chris Gunter, Ched Evans and Sam Vokes were all called into the squad for the game at the Racecourse Ground.

But defeat, and the fact that senior boss John Toshack wanted all of those youngsters back in his squad for tomorrow's World Cup qualifier against Russia in Moscow, meant that the odds were heavily stacked against Flynn's youngsters.

But with what would be considered almost a second-string under-21 side, the Welsh youngsters pulled off an amazing victory.

Inside 10 minutes of this match, the two players who had been with the seniors all week but returned to the under-21 ranks combined to put Wales ahead.

Arsenal youngster Aaron Ramsey sent over a corner and defender Rhys Williams scored with a right-footer from eight yards.

Wales lost Darcy Blake through injury after 18 minutes, with Wrexham's Mike Williams coming on, and the Welsh youngsters held out until half-time still ahead despite constant pressure.

But Wales slowly took control in the second period and on the hour they took a two-goal lead, again following a Ramsey corner.

This time it was Reading youngster Simon Church who netted from just a couple of yards.

And eight minutes later the game was virtually over when Church and Mark Bradley combined to give Rhoys Wiggins a simple tap-in for the third.

Wales then held out for the final period with ease, to produce a great win that was greeted with celebrations amongst the senior squad and supporters who were keeping tabs on the match while in Moscow awaiting Wednesday's World Cup tie.