**Fifa World Cup Qualifying Group Four - Finland v Wales **
Venue: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Date: Saturday, 10 October Kick-off: 1500 BST **Coverage: ** Exclusively live on BBC TWO Wales and online, full commentary on BBC Radio Wales, Radio Cymru and online and live text commentary online
**Danny Gabbidon has been ruled out of Wales’ final World Cup qualifiers away to Finland and then Liechtenstein.**The West Ham defender has struggled with a calf injury and will not recover in time to travel, while midfielder Joe Ledley is now also doubtful.
The Cardiff City player has a hip problem and will have a scan at the Wales team base on Tuesday afternoon.
Captain Craig Bellamy will join the squad despite a sore knee, along with Aston Villa defender James Collins.
Both players were excused training on Tuesday because they played for their clubs against each other on Monday night.
Striker Bellamy aggravated his knee during his goal-scoring performance in Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Aston Villa.
The Football Association of Wales’ medical team will assess both Bellamy and Ledley at the team base in Cardiff before the trip to Helsinki and then the match in Lichtenstein four days later.
Wales manager John Toshack is already without midfield trio jack Collison, Brian Stock and Simon Davies.
West Ham youngster Collison is out with a calf problem, while Doncaster Rovers’ Stock impressed in his first Wales cap against Russia but is out until the new year after undergoing surgery on an ankle injury.
Fulham playmaker Davies, 29, has not recovered from a foot operation and Toshack revealed that Davies is set for a further exploratory operation in a bid to cure his problem.
Toshack could turn to the recalled David Vaughan in a patched-up midfield as the 14-times capped international is set for his first Wales game for more than 12 months.
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But the Wales boss still hopes his depleted Welsh team can win the double-header and leapfrog Finland and finish a “pleasing” third in 2010 World Cup qualifying Group Four.
Wales can no longer qualify for next year’s World Cup finals in South Africa and must beat Finland, who currently occupy third place, to have any hope of finishing third in Group Four behind Germany and Russia.
That would boost Wales’ seeding for future qualifying campaigns.
Toshack said: "The Finns go to leaders Germany after playing us, so if we can finish off with two wins we may finish third.
“These two games may seem academic to some but to finish behind Germany and Russia, given the circumstances and injury problems we’ve endured, would be extremely satisfactory - so we should try and win them.”
Tottenham left-back Gareth Bale is fit again following five months out after knee surgery.
Wales have been forced to be without key players through injury for much of this campaign as Gabbidon, Bale, Collison, Collins and captain Bellamy have often been unavailable.
Wales were defeated by an ageing Finland side at the Millennium Stadium in March and Toshack hopes his side can get revenge.
“The Finland game at home was a big, big disappointment to us,” he said.
"I’ve looked at the video to that game three or four times and we were the better side in the first-half and but we weren’t able to recover when we went behind.
“We must see if we can put that right on Saturday.”
Wales have six senior players also named in their Under-21 squad to face Bosnia-Herzegovina in a Uefa Championship qualifier in Wrexham on the same day as the Finland match.
Wales say two of those six - which includes Bale, Aaron Ramsey, Sam Vokes, Lewin Nyatanga, Ched Evans and Simon Church - could play at the Racecourse and then rejoin the senior squad for the trip to Liechtenstein four days later.
Wales squad to play Finland and Liechtenstein in World Cup qualifying Group Four matches on 10 and 14 October:
**Goalkeepers: **Wayne Hennessey (Wolves), Boaz Myhill (Hull), Lewis Price (Brentford, on loan from Derby)
**Defenders: **Gareth Bale (Tottenham), James Collins (Aston Villa), Neal Eardley (Blackpool), Chris Gunter (Nottingham Forest), Craig Morgan (Peterborough), Lewin Nyatanga (Bristol City), Sam Ricketts (Bolton), Ashley Williams (Swansea)
Midfielders: Joe Ledley (Cardiff), David Cotterill (Sheffield United), David Edwards (Wolves), Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal), David Vaughan (Blackpool)
**Strikers: **Craig Bellamy (Manchester City), Simon Church (Reading), Ched Evans (Sheffield United), Rob Earnshaw (Nottingham Forest), Sam Vokes (Wolves).