WITH Wales guaranteed at least second place in their 2004 European Championships qualifying group, Ryan Giggs and co. can now turn their attentions to their likely rivals in November's play-offs for Portugal.

And the Manchester United star has no doubts about who he would like to face. Yes, you've guessed it, the old enemy... England.

England currently top their group thanks to a 2-0 victory over Liechten-stein courtesy of goals from boy wonder Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen.

But Sven Goran Eriksson's side must draw or win in Turkey next month to keep top spot. If they lose, then it's the play-offs and a possible mouth-watering clash with Wales.

"We've just got to see who is going to come second in the groups," said Giggs. "There are still a lot of places up for grabs and there are some very fine teams that jump out at you currently placed in second spot.

"The Press are going to write about the chance of getting England and it's the game the fans want and is a fixture that jumps out at you and would be a great occasion." Giggs turned down the chance to play for England as a schoolboy and his decision has caused much debate.

Even his Manchester United team-mate Ruud Van Nistelrooy claimed he felt sorry for Giggs because he played for Wales and not England.

And Giggs knows that last night's achievement in making the play-offs could have been bettered.

"It could have been so much better but it's a measure of how far we've come as a team that we are slightly disappointed to have only made the play-offs," he said.

"We've got mixed feelings though perhaps we should be excited. A year ago if you would have told us that we'd make the play-offs then we would have been delighted.

"But with 12 minutes to go we thought we'd done enough to win the game and if we had we'd still be talking about automatic qualification."

Despite the best efforts of Mark Hughes to keep the score from Belgrade away for his side, Giggs and his team-mates were fully aware of the dramatic events unfolding in the Serbia/Montenegro v Italy tie.

"We could hear the crowd saying top of the group and shouting 1-1 at us with a few minutes to so we assumed Italy were drawing," said the 29-year-old.

"So the final ten minutes we really went for it and even though we were down to ten men it was probably our best patch of the game as we knew a win would have put us in the driving seat.

"But we've drawn and it will take a miracle in the Italy/Azerbaijan game for us to now come top."

And Giggs' international manager Mark Hughes has even started his scouting mission on the teams currently positioned in second place which include the likes of Spain, Holland and Turkey.

Hughes said: "As a matter of course we have already started to look at the teams that could finish in second place.

"We started that process several months ago and we'll have a good idea about all the teams in second place once they are confirmed and we'll then start to look at them in more detail."