Danny Ward was delighted to break up for the World Cup with Leicester City's season back on track.

Like his club side, Ward has enjoyed a remarkable transformation in fortunes this season.

He conceded 22 goals in his first seven league appearances of the campaign but, in his eight games since then, has kept six clean sheets and shipped only three goals.

"It's just a confidence thing," said Wales keeper Ward. "We had a tough transfer window which everyone seemed to be talking about and sometimes that was difficult to deal with in the changing room.

"But we knew all along, you look through the squad of players we have and the characters as well as the quality of players, we knew it would be a matter of time until we built our confidence levels and got back to the standard we'd set in recent years.

"Thankfully we've gone some way to getting back there."