Euro 2016: Wales v Portugal – Gareth Bale warns his Real Madrid team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo: This is our time

GARETH BALE has warned Cristiano Ronaldo that Wales are ready to make more history against Portugal.

The Dragons reached their first-ever major semi-final with a scintillating 3-1 win over Belgium in Friday’s last-eight clash.

Now Real Madrid star Bale is backing his boys to get the better of club team-mate Ronaldo and his Portuguese pals by reaching the Euro 2016 final next Sunday.

And if they ‘do a Leicester’ and win it, the players and staff will share a bonus of £7.2million, nearly a third of the £21.8m prize money.

Bale said: “This is our time to shine. It’s going to be an amazing day on Wednesday.

“We’ve already made history and, hopefully, we can make more.

“We’re just enjoying being here, we’re enjoying the ride. It’s our time and we look forward to the semi-final.”

Asked if Wales can now go all the way to the final, the £86m man said: “It’s in our hands now.
“But we can’t afford to look past the semi-final, we just have to keep doing what we’ve been doing.

“We’ve grown in confidence, we’ve been learning from mistakes we’ve made before.

“It’s just incredible. We knew we had it in us, we obviously had a gameplan. We felt we knew Belgium well from previous games and we executed the plan amazingly.”