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Describing Wales under Craig Bellamy hasn't always been the most easy of tasks.
Frantic, chaotic, and intense, this brand of football blurs a lot of the lines many will have previously been used to. But there are two certainties already about this new era.
Bellamy has made Wales compelling to watch and, crucially, really, really difficult to beat.
After battling to a goalless draw with Nations League in Turkey on Saturday evening, Wales remain unbeaten under his stewardship.
Despite a positive start, Wales were on the back foot for much of the first half, with Karl Darlow producing a fine one-on-one save to deny Yunus Akgun, although Harry Wilson did crack a low effort off the post on the stroke of half-time.
Turkey continued to push after the break, but the quantity of chances largely outweighed the quality, although they were handed a golden chance to take the win late on when Neco Williams was penalised for a foul on Yunus Akgun inside the box.
However, Kerem Akturkoglu would send the resulting spot kick wide, preserving what the visitors will feel was a well deserved point against a Turkey side that had previously won six of their last seven games at home.
Having already become the first Wales manager to go unbeaten in his first four games, this was always likely to be the sternest examination of Welsh football's new era.
The previous meeting in Cardiff yielded what was a hugely promising, and indeed thoroughly entertaining opening gambit. But as the Wales boss himself admitted earlier this week, this was always likely to be a more biting acid test of where this side are as they build towards World Cup qualification.
Sorba Thomas, one of four changes from the win over Montenegro last month, arguably embodied what was another bold start from Bellamy's men, winning the game's first corner inside the first minute.
As they did at the Cardiff City Stadium, Wales once again sought to press the hosts hard out of possession, with the likes of Jordan James and Thomas showing plenty of early energy in the opening exchanges, much to the disgust of the fervent home crowd, whose jeers of frustration were deafening.
The locals showed little signs of settling, although their team actually started to show some promising signs in the opening 15 minutes, as Wales started to feel some of the 'early pain' Bellamy had predicted.
Darlow smartly gathered Arda Guler's curling effort on seven minutes, before watching on as Kerem Akturkoglu thrashed a volley over the bar.
It soon became evident that despite another frenetic start from Bellamy's men, this clash would not be following a similar pattern to the meeting in Cardiff, as Turkey began to dominate. Orkun Kokcu's effort hit a team-mate and went wide, while Hakan Calhanmoglu's strike was similarly deflected behind, albeit this time by Josh Sheehan.
Turkey should have probably taken the lead just after half an hour. Akgun beat the offside trap to get behind what was otherwise an impressively resolute Welsh backline. However, he was denied superbly by the onrushing Darlow.
For all of Turkey's pressure, Wales were doing a good job in frustrating their efforts in the final third, and punctuated Turkey's efforts with several promising efforts on the counter.
Jordan James even had the ball in the net five minutes before the interval, powering home from a low Mark Harris cross, only for the former Cardiff City man to be penalised for offside.
Harris must have felt it wasn't going to be his night when ended up with an impressive shiner after a nasty clash of heads with Joe Rodon on the stroke of half-time, but would go on to produce a moment of brilliance that would nearly give his side the lead deep into first-half stoppage time.
After pinching the ball out wide, the Oxford United star weaved his way through the Turkish defence, before pulling back to Wilson on the edge of the area, but his low effort would be denied by the foot of the post.
Harris wouldn't return for the second half, presumably at least in part to that head injury, with Daniel James introduced for his first outing of the Bellamy era.
Turkey continued to create chances. Akgun fired wide after Wilson had given the ball away cheaply near his own penalty area, while substitute Enes Unal tapped just wide from six yards after being teed up by Akgun just after the hour.
Unal's crashing volley came off the head of Ben Davies as Turkey continued to push, but by this point, their frustration was palpable. Bellamy's decision to throw on Liam Cullen and David Brooks suggested he felt the game was subsequently there to be won. Indeed, it was a move that nearly paid off immediately. The pair exchanging passes on the edge of the area before Brooks walloped a fierce effort against a red shirt and wide.
Had he managed to get the ball from out under his feet, Brooks would have surely stroked Brennan Johnson's pinpoint cross into the net, but Turkey would soon regain some of their previous momentum.
Arda Guler somehow managed to spoon an effort over the bar from the edge of the area, before Akgun sent another wayward effort high and wide.
Wales remained largely comfortable from a defensive point of view, and will have certainly felt their efforts were good enough to warrant at least a point.
So when Williams was penalised, somewhat harshly it has to be said, for a lunge on Akgun inside the area, it felt like a punch to the gut.
But they were granted a dramatic reprieve when Akturkoglu put his spot kick wide, sealing what was, on balance, a thoroughly well earned point.
Turkey: Gunok; Muldur, Demiral, Bardakci, Elmali (Celik 73); Kokcu, Calhanoglu (Yuksek 46); Akgun, Guler (Ayhan 85), Akturkoglu; Yilmaz (Unal 65)
Subs: Bayindir, Cakir, Akaydın, Yokuşlu, Topcu, Yildirim, Kilicsoy, Haspolat
Wales: Darlow; Wiliams, Roberts, Rodon, B.Davies (c), Thomas (Cullen 73); Sheehan, J.James (Brooks 73), Wilson; Johnson, Harris (D.James 46)
Subs: Ward, King, Mepham, Norrington-Davies, Allen, Koumas, Colwill, Cabango, Dasilva
