Our hopes had been boosted by successive group wins against Denmark and Belarus but Chapuisat dealt their hopes of qualifying for Euro 2000 a real blow.

The Swiss striker scored in each half to put the Swiss into second place.

We lost keeper Paul Jones, hit the post and had a goal disallowed.

But after conceding inside the first four minutes, we found ourselves always chasing the game.

We started with skipper Gary Speed playing as sweeper, but that plan was abandoned after Chapuisat scored his opening goal.

We reverted back to 4-4-2 with Speed returning to midfield.

It meant that Mark Pembridge and John Robinson found themselves forced into a more orthodox full back roles.

It wasn't a poor performance but we couldn't make the breakthrough after that early goal. We could not find that extra piece skill or invention to turn the game back in our favour.