Scotland Euro 2024 Squad and Discussion

When you see teams like Denmark, Slovenia, and if I may, England and Italy go through, if we’re persisting with this ludicrous 24 teams format I think Scotland should qualify automatically to the first knock out round just because they’re sound.
 
LankyHoggie said:
When you see teams like Denmark, Slovenia, and if I may, England and Italy go through, if we’re persisting with this ludicrous 24 teams format I think Scotland should qualify automatically to the first knock out round just because they’re sound.
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24 teams is fine and Scotland are shite.
 
For anyone still peddling the rubbish that we couldn't do anything more because of the quality of our players just have a look at Georgia and Romania and how they've gone through.
 
Huge squandered opportunity. Clarke's Kilmarnock bunker mentality killed us really. He's gotten such an easy ride from the media here because most of the pundits don't have a scooby about tactics and prefer to trade in cliches about quality or attitude. Listening to the post-match analysis was painful. He's also gotten an easy ride from the fanbase because we are so starved of tournament football that we are grateful for simply taking part and for the chance to have a massive sesh in Germany.
 
Gio said:
Huge squandered opportunity. Clarke's Kilmarnock bunker mentality killed us really. He's gotten such an easy ride from the media here because most of the pundits don't have a scooby about tactics and prefer to trade in cliches about quality or attitude. Listening to the post-match analysis was painful. He's also gotten an easy ride from the fanbase because we are so starved of tournament football that we are grateful for simply taking part and for the chance to have a massive sesh in Germany.
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Yeah it's sad. Nowhere near enough talk of why we failed, lack of tactical nous or even having a plan for attacking teams. A mentality very much of 'just happy to be there'.
 
Not sure how verifiable the stats are, but just seen something that says, out of the qualified nations, Scotland have among the fewest number of "exports" to the top European leagues while also having among the lowest percentage of minutes played by players under 23 in their "home" league.
 
Alex99 said:
Not sure how verifiable the stats are, but just seen something that says, out of the qualified nations, Scotland have among the fewest number of "exports" to the top European leagues while also having among the lowest percentage of minutes played by players under 23 in their "home" league.
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That’s impressive, in a bad way.
 
SilentWitness said:
For anyone still peddling the rubbish that we couldn't do anything more because of the quality of our players just have a look at Georgia and Romania and how they've gone through.
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Georgia have a world class attacker and Romania and Slovakia were in a much easier group than Scotland. Don't forget that Scotland finished ahead of Georgia in qualifying too.

If you swapped Scotland with either Romania or Slovakia they'd get out of that group. Germany, Switzerland and Hungry is far tougher than Belgium, Ukraine, Romania/Slovakia.
 
MegadrivePerson said:
Georgia have a world class attacker and Romania and Slovakia were in a much easier group than Scotland. Don't forget that Scotland finished ahead of Georgia in qualifying too.

If you swapped Scotland with either Romania or Slovakia they'd get out of that group. Germany, Switzerland and Hungry is far tougher than Belgium, Ukraine, Romania/Slovakia.
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My point is that they all gave it a go. The only teams to stink it up have been Scotland and England.
 
SilentWitness said:
My point is that they all gave it a go. The only teams to stink it up have been Scotland and England.
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Most teams have stunk it up, really, some have qualified further because they were less crap than their group opponents.
Denmark, Slovenia, England, France, Belgium, scored the same amount of goals that Scotland did, and they all qualified to the knockouts, its not a good tournament.

I do think Clarke should’ve started Shankland against Hungary, eventually there was no difference between losing or drawing that match, but I sort of understand why Scotland were that cautious in the first half, there just wasn’t enough quality in attack to chase the game from a losing point.
 
LankyHoggie said:
Most teams have stunk it up, really, some have qualified further because they were less crap than their group opponents.
Denmark, Slovenia, England, France, Belgium, scored the same amount of goals that Scotland did, and they all qualified to the knockouts, its not a good tournament.

I do think Clarke should’ve started Shankland against Hungary, eventually there was no difference between losing or drawing that match, but I sort of understand why Scotland were that cautious in the first half, there just wasn’t enough quality in attack to chase the game from a losing point.
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Scotland, Serbia and England have the lowest xG of the tournament.

They've stunk it up heavily and Scotland were the worst for it. The teams you've mentioned have gone for it more than Scotland ever did. We set up to try and not lose, and it was pathetic.
 
MegadrivePerson said:
Georgia have a world class attacker and Romania and Slovakia were in a much easier group than Scotland. Don't forget that Scotland finished ahead of Georgia in qualifying too.

If you swapped Scotland with either Romania or Slovakia they'd get out of that group. Germany, Switzerland and Hungry is far tougher than Belgium, Ukraine, Romania/Slovakia.
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Georgia have punched above expectations.

Hungary, Scotland, Romania, Ukraine and Slovakia are the sort of teams that can easily take points from each other depending on form. Switzerland are usually better organised and just had a great result, but they're often not "much" better either...they finished five points behind Romania in qualifying, with a loss and a draw in the two games between them.

Based on recent form, Scotland have definitely been the worst of these teams. i'd not bet on them getting out of any group with certainty. That's the most important thing alongside the tactical matchups as none of these sides can rely on a large enough overall quality gap getting them through bad tactics/a poor game against each other.
 
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