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Scotland head coach Steve Clark has been speaking to the media ahead of Sunday's Nations League Group A1 match against Portugal in Lisbon. Here are the key points:
Feels the players have been able to move on from the disappointing result on Thursday night at home to Poland. Feels his defenders can handle the like of Cristiano Ronaldo's threat. "They'll want to challenge themselves." Thursday's 3-2 defeat by Poland was Scotland's fifth loss in 2024, with Clarke's side managing just one win in their last 13 matches."He's the right man for the job right now," Crichton told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. "I don’t think he'd be there otherwise.“He has set his sights on the World Cup, so let’s give him that chance. I don’t see anyone that I'd have come in instead.
"He needs more time," Miller added. "The manager now has a responsibility to give him the opportunity when he's that young. "Obviously different characteristics in all of the three," Dias said. "We know they are quality players.Dias, whose side started their campaign with a 2-1 win at home to Croatia, says they "we know they are a very strong team" despite Scotland's 3-2 defeat by Poland.
Gordon made his last international appearance in a friendly match against Finland in June, coming on as substitute and conceding two goals in a 2-2 draw in what was expected to be his Scotland swansong. "We saw a Scotland team blocking shots, working hard, heading, doing everything they could and that's the demand we placed on them so I was really pleased with that. They weren't cutting us apart."
"He knew what he could get from that team and those players so performance wise, I'm happy, there were lots of positives. "The introduction of Ben Doak was exciting," the former Raith Rovers manager told BBC's Good Morning Scotland. "I was certainly delighted when he was on the park. "Grant has played at the top level all his career, I have no worries about him being able to bounce back and go again at the weekend," forward Morgan said.
And Morgan, a second-half substitute, admitted the self-inflicted mistakes proved a reminder of the small margin for error at this level."It’s down to ourselves that we lost that game, the Poles didn’t do anything to win, we maybe feel that we lost it. Scotland fought back from 2-0 down with goals from Billy Gilmour and Scott McTominay before a last-gasp penalty condemned the hosts to a 3-2 defeat, meaning it's now just one win in 13.
Dykes said: "We've been working on a lot of things, I think you could see we were trying to press high and be the dominant team on the ball and make chances."We need to go back to basics. We are a good team, we know what we are capable of and we need to stick together because we are a family. I'm sure the results will come again.
Scotland, who meekly exited this summer's Euros with one point from three group games, now must travel to face Portugal on Sunday with a record of just one win in 13 and five defeats in 2024."Disappointed to lose a game like that, a game we shouldn't lose but if you make errors at this level you get punished.
The formation certainly gave Scotland more of an attacking look compared with the defeat by Hungary that ended their Euro 2024 campaign. Billy Gilmour and Scott McTominay getting into advanced positions for their respective second and 10th international goals was emblematic of this.
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