Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey appreciate the spotlight with the Group B leaders on the verge of qualification,but it is the Reading striker who continues to impressYou would usually find the unsung hero of a team in defensive midfield, or possibly at full-back. They are the players who are a crucial fragment of that side’s success but are out of the spotlight, and the water carriers. They are not normally the centre-forward,the traditional glory boys of football whose dirty work is usually done by others.
For Hal Robson-Kanu, the man who has made the lone striking role for Wales his own, or that does not fairly apply. The success of the team,who need only a point from their final two qualifiers – against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Andorra – to seal a state in next summer’s European Championship, could easily be put down to them having the most expensive player in the world, and handily backed up by one of the better midfielders in the Premier League. However,while Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey take the headlines, players like Robson-Kanu are in many ways the embodiment of the Wales team.
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Source: theguardian.com