SOPHIE INGLE declared winning her 100th international cap as "a massive honour" as Wales ran Norway agonisingly close.

Chelsea’s Guro Reiten scored the only goal of a tight game in Oslo which Wales felt they should have had a late penalty as Norway captain Maren Mjelde appeared to handle in the box.

"It was amazing," said Ingle of reaching her century. "I still can't believe I've played 100 times for Wales and it means the world to me.

"There's no better feeling than putting the red shirt on - or as it was, the yellow shirt.

"It's a massive honour."

Wales fell seven points behind Norway in their Euro 2022 qualifying group, but there was no obvious gulf in class between the two teams.

"We knew it was going to be a tough game coming out here to Norway," said Ingle. "We respected them and they had a lot of the ball, but I think we had a fair few chances that we could have potentially put away.

"It didn't quite go our way, but I'm proud of the girls, everyone worked so hard, not just in the game, but in camp and training games.

"When you come up against the top teams like Norway you've got to be patient and willing to defend for quite a lot of the game, but when you win the ball you have to try and create.

"I think we did create chances against them, we just weren't clinical enough."

Wales boss Jayne Ludlow, who was taking charge of her 50th game, is keen to watch the contest back after an impressive away performance that was only lacking a goal.

Ludlow said: "It will be interesting to watch the performance back because there were times they shone as a top-level nation would and they created chances, but when you think of the expectations coming into a game like this for us, I'm so proud of how hard the girls worked and stuck to task.

"The fact we created opportunities, obviously the detail wasn't right and we didn't finish them, but the fact we created far more than people expected against the level we were up against, I'm so proud of the girls.

"I'm gutted for us that we didn't manage to take any of the chances, but I'm really proud of how they performed, the discipline and work ethic."