london wales extended their perfect start to the nations league campaign as liverpool defender neco williams snatched a lastgasp winner in sundays 10 victory over bulgariaryan giggs side were well below their best for most of the league b group 4 tie but 19yearold williams came off the bench to break the deadlock with a header deep into stoppagetime at the cardiff city stadiumwilliams first goal in professional football made it four successive wins in all competitions for walesfollowing their 10 success in finland on thursday giggs men stay top of the group and are now unbeaten in eight matches dating back to june 2019of the teams who qualified for euro 2020 none scored fewer than them 10 in their qualifying campaignthat lack of firepower was a problem for long periods against stubborn bulgaria but rightback williams finally opened up their massed defence on his home debutclearly determined to frustrate the hosts with their cautious approach bulgaria finally showed enough purpose to fashion a rare chance when galin ivanovs curling shot deflected narrowly wide off connor robertsit didnt help the home sides cause that gareth bale was well short of the drive and sharpness that can only be gained from regular playing timecaptain bale barely featured for real madrid last season after the coronavirus hiatus as his strained relationship with their boss zinedine zidane left him frozen outbale played just 45 minutes in helsinki and two games in less than 72 hours was a big ask for the 31yearold given his match fitnesshis struggles were summed up by a tame freekick that never threatened to test georgi georgieva torrential downpour late in the first half did little to improve the quality of an increasingly errorstrewn gamedavid brooks who missed most of last season after ankle surgery was named in a wales lineup for the first time since june 2019but brooks couldnt keep his volley on target when the ball fell to him after kieffer moores challenge forced a poor clearance on the edge of the bulgaria arealooking to spark his side into life giggs sent on hal robsonkanu as the west bromwich albion forward made his first appearance for three years after reversing his international retirementbulgarias yanis karabelyov headed over from closerange after wales switched off at the backmanchester united winger daniel james linked well with brooks to create a sight of goal but his powerful longrange strike was too close to georgievjames returned the favour moments later feeding bales pass to brooks who hit the top of the crossbar with his leftfoot shotwales late pressure was rewarded in the fourth minute of stoppagetime when jonny williams swung a cross to the far post and williams powered his header past georgiev