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Chapter 1: What are Scotland's chances of making history in the World Cup?
Is this the team who can make history?
Can they become legends by getting through the group stage? Live in Glasgow's Merchant City Square We have just watched on
Scotland 0 Brazil 3 and it is a result that leaves Scotland's chances teetering on the edge it's going to be a nervous wait over the next few days to see whether Scotland are going to be able to qualify in third place we have three points we have a minus three goal difference and there were some real defensive disasters in that game for Scotland which happened
in the game against Morocco as well we are taking your call so get in touch right now we are here until 2 o'clock in the morning so you can get in touch let us know what you thought of the game what did you think of the set up how Steve Clarke handled it how you think some of the players played
do you think we are going to get through we are seeing the graphic on the TV and it says defeat by three goals shows a 49.2% chance of reaching the last 32 so it couldn't really be more on a knife edge it's more or less a 50-50 whether we get through or not Gordon Dale Yes it's got to be a nervous couple of days obviously waiting to see what the situation's got to be at the end of play but
And our performances in the World Cup, I think we've been poor, I've got to admit. And tonight, I think we got a lot of things wrong. Individual errors, cost us goals against individual players that are top, top quality are always going to punish you. I don't think we offered enough.
And the most disappointing thing for me is we've got big players, but I don't think they've stood up to this tournament at all. I don't think our big players have, you know, impact he does in any way and it will be a nervous wait listen will we take it of course we will but I think it's been a disappointing tournament
joining myself Scott Allen and Gordon DL here in the tap yard in Merchant City Square is Scotland fan Craig thanks for taking the time to come up and join us Craig what were your thoughts on that game?
I mean just touching on what Gordon said there about the I mean really let down by some of the McTominay chances I mean the big players kind of stepping up to the moment and I think he really is down yeah
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Chapter 2: How did Scotland's performance against Brazil impact their qualification hopes?
Looked one pace, which I don't know if that's because of the level of opposition you are playing against. Sometimes the heat may be playing a factor in individual players at times, but we're in with so much hope and it's felt really flat, hasn't it, since the Morocco game?
You can maybe take it sometimes, Craig, if a team like Brazil, who have top quality players, that end up cutting you apart with some brilliant play, but the two goals in the first half especially, and then the one that was ruled out from VAR, were the architects of our own downfall weren't we?
Yeah I mean I think yeah touching on McTominay just kind of looked a bit lost in the moment I think of the game and yeah we just really didn't cement those chances that could have you know turned the tide for the team.
I think when we're talking about chances the chances we create are half chances. Aye.
I think the your lack of real belief when we got into the final third. There was nothing concrete to just, do you know what I mean? They just cut us apart at the back.
I don't think there's anything really deliberate about how we play though, whether that's building out for the back. Tonight we looked as if we looked, even though they set off the game looking to counter attack us, because we don't play that way normally, Guys are landing on the ball and there's nothing that you can really see worked on to then get yourself into a certain position.
It's off the cuff, that's from the back and then when it gets to the final turn, just no real belief there.
It looked like after the second half there, it looked like we were just trying to build out a bit from the back and control a bit of the game and that just never really panned out.
What I was disappointed tonight was, look,
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Chapter 3: What were the main defensive issues for Scotland in the match?
Steve Clarke can't take the blame for individual errors and we certainly made a couple of them tonight. Where I was disappointed as a manager is There was crying out for substitutions for me. And then you wait to, what, 89 minutes on the clock, and you make those substitutions. That baffles your life out, doesn't it?
So, I mean, before half-time, the two of you were calling out for there to be changes. Only one change at half-time as an enforced one, because Andy Robertson gets injured. The next substitution that Steve Clark made in the game was in the 18th, first minute of the game.
I can't, I can't, I can't. and I just can't grasp it because as I say I'm not picking out players but Shanklin just Didn't get the service, offered nothing. We needed something different. We needed someone that was going to... Lan Adams that could run in behind. Or a Dykes that was going to be a handful and a bit of strength and holding the ball up. We looked in the middle of the park.
Kenny McLean came in tonight. Hardly seen him. John McGinn, you know, the fan's favourite. Hardly seen him. It needed some change and a bit of sharpness, a bit of... You look at Tierney, come on. I thought Tierney had a good second half. You know, he added something to it. But to wait to 89 minutes, I just, I couldn't grasp his thinking tonight.
Chapter 4: How did fans react to Scotland's performance during the live discussion?
You feel there is way more that the Scotland team are capable of, you know, individual players. And we've got to hope, Craig, that other teams do us a favour and that we get another opportunity in another game to stand up and show what we can do. Yeah, we could have really done with just 2-0 or something, to be honest.
it's just that the difference that that third goal makes is massive in terms of percentage chances and it just means that there are more results now that we're having to sit there and cross our fingers and cross our toes and pray that they go in our favour it's been a nervous week you can't legislate for individual errors as as Daz says you can't that's that's in the moment decisions knowing how important the game is and sometimes she's a football fan Daz will tell you
you look after yourself first a lot of the time don't you and you try and make sure that you don't make these sort of mistakes that's the surprising thing about that and especially going down so early against Morocco you think you've learned that lesson you start the game brightly you give away the goal and the man out you do we get away with the next one that Jack Henry's
lacks any sort of intensity to move the ball and realise that there's a bit of danger there coming from the pressure from Vinicius Junior and then the one before half time tells you because see the craziest thing about it Scotty is the fact that the only positive you can take and this is crazy is the fact that
It was only 3-0. You know what I mean? They could have really cemented it. Could have punished us. Yeah, leaving America tonight. Angus Gundy would have had some big saves. Yeah, exactly. We'll still get that slight little bit of hope that we can make the knockout stages. And I know that a lot of people will be disappointed and say, well, we probably don't deserve it.
over the three games but you'll take it all day long that's what the tournament's here for but as I say strangely enough the positives is it could have been four or five that would have probably seen us on the next light one it's a good place to build from now as a team I'm not sure though because I feel like we're going through the same thing tournament to tournament now
we're at feeling a deflation and expecting so much more from a group of players who we know and we see perform week in, week out with our clubs at a much higher level.
But we're here at the end of the day, like, you know, as a fan.
I know, but I think at the same time, we've got to have higher expectations than what we're serving up there.
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Chapter 5: What tactical decisions did Steve Clarke make during the game?
And it was a good result. And if you get the result you need tonight, then we're looking at it going well done. But we were hanging on against Haiti.
I mean, they've shown themselves to be an alright outfit in fairness, 4-2 against Morocco today.
We'll say it again, Andrew, about the calibre of player we supposedly have and the level they're playing at. We've got this thing, and obviously the guy who joined us there and he's speaking about we're happy to be there, that we're never going to solve this if we've all just accept mediocrity. And that's the biggest thing for me.
We've got to be showing up better than what we've shown at this tournament so far. And it might just be enough, the goal difference, to get us through. But the thing that doesn't sit right with me is just accepting that I was just happy to be there. I don't like that attitude.
And for all younger Scottish fans who are 9, 10, have aspirations of playing at World Cup and competing with these sort of level of players, we have to want better.
Finn, is it just frustration? Is that the main feeling? Is it disappointment?
I think it's just the team selection as well. Partizan had a poor game against Monaco, I feel, and they still started again. I mean, I know Ralston's coming off the bench to start and they're off the bench for Partizan, but they're bringing on Neymar, so I don't really know what you can do in that scenario. But I just think the team selection was wrong, again.
Do you think the team selection was wrong from the start? I'm not sure many people would have said that on the team initially.
I said it when I heard the team. I quite liked the team. But our back four tonight for the goals were dreadful defending. Absolute dreadful. And I keep getting back to it. If you go and look at teams that... like, say, the same sort of a size of nation and what they've got to pick from. They'll get big players that turn up in these tournaments and go and produce the goods.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Scotland's World Cup performance for future tournaments?
Thank you very much to Chad on the line. As I said, if you want to get involved on the phones, you can give us a call right now. We are going to be here until two o'clock. So you can phone in, you can put your point across. We're also taking callers live here at the Tapyard in Merchant City Square. And we've got the main man from the Tapyard, Ian, the owner, is coming to join us.
First of all, thank you very much for hosting us here. And we're hoping that it's not going to be the final time we're here. We don't know yet because we don't know what
the future holds for scotland at the world cup but what did you make first of all of the performance tonight i mean from what i've seen tonight it was we just they were just a class above us tonight i think and it's like the ravenous and kind of gabrielle kind of head up that team uh yeah we've got quality obviously all over the park but when we go up against teams like that we kind of get found out a little bit but listen
I hope Scotland get through it's obviously going to be massive for us and we've got a new place opening next week so if Scotland get through if we don't get through it's inextensible because that's it when you're coming up against such quality opposition the one thing you don't want to do is give them a head start we did it once we almost did it a second time got away with it with the Jack Hendrick mistake and then did it a third time yeah
We added to our own downfall tonight. I thought our defending was very poor for the goals. Listen, give them a bit of credit with their movement, their quality. Individually, they're very, very good players. But defensive-wise, if Steve Clark sits back and he analyses that, I think when you look with your foot, I'd be very disappointed losing those goals.
Yeah, Ian, you know, through early doors, it looked as if Scotland were looking a bit more positive, that they were kind of on the front foot. That was the opening seven minutes, but then you started to fear, really, as soon as that first goal went in.
Yeah, I think we put ourselves on the back foot from the start, the last two games, and I think our goal threat is...
it's been kind of few and far between and then when it comes to the last 15-20 minutes we're chucking the ball forward and hoping to get some knockdowns but yeah at the end of the day we've had an amazing moment at the start of the tournament with John McGinn and we'll probably dine off that for a good few years to come but it's yeah I think tonight's game we just came up against a better team and then we just need to hope results go our way
Did it surprise you that, you know, you talk about the lack of cutting edge in the final third, the fact that there didn't really seem to be much in the way of ideas for Scotland, that Steve Clarke didn't try and tweak things quicker, because apart from the change at half-time, which was enforced, Andy Robertson got injured, it took until the 81st minute for him to really try and make those attacking changes.
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Chapter 7: What frustrations were expressed about Scotland's team selection and substitutions?
He wanted it sewn up before the World Cup and you kind of felt like he held a lot of the cards there because of the success he brought in terms of getting Scotland back to major tournaments.
The SFA are a massive fan of Steve Clarke, but it was always going to be a bit of a risk because if Scotland went to the tournament and say lost to Haiti in game number one, then there would have been big question marks over it. Scotland can still get to the last 32. We can still create history. If we don't do it, there'll maybe be some question marks over that decision.
If we end up getting through, despite the fact that some of their performances have been a bit disappointing, there'll maybe be sort of less question marks over it, you would say?
Yeah, I think a lot of fans will be asking the same question tonight. Was it wise, especially after the disappointment? You know, we like it as if we do end up coming home, then a lot of Scottish fans will be certainly disappointed with the manager. But the SFA seem to have rewarded him because of what he's achieved. And you can't take that away from him. Listen, we've got to the tournaments.
Have we performed when we've got there? No, I think it's been very disappointing. Germany, I thought, was really disappointing. And I think with an opportunity in the World Cup, we've scored one goal and we got a little bit of luck with that as well. I don't think many of our big players have turned up.
Tonight was the first time I've really looked and thought, you know, substitution-wise, I was very, very puzzled with what Steve Clarke was thinking. I really do. Bringing on guys with 90 minutes played and, OK, added time goes on to that bit. I think if Steve Clarke doesn't progress here, I do think he will come in for a lot of criticism.
I think he deserves the show, but whether he's worthy of his four-year contract, That obviously is, SFA thinks so.
Well then I suppose part of that comes down to the fact that standards have been raised now because just getting to a major tournament was enough. But Steve Clarke has now done that three times. So he is the manager that has raised those standards and is now having to meet those standards and expectations.
At the same time, we're no getting away from it as we have more chances of getting to tournaments now. Tournaments have been expanded as this one. What you can't take away from it is we finished top of our group.
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