IT WASN’T A GREAT DAY AT THE OFFICE FOR SCOTLAND LAST NIGHT IN THEIR FIRST MATCH OF THE EUROS 2024, WITH AN EXTREMELY WELL-ORGANISED GERMANY SETTING THE TONE EARLY DOORS. GERMANY’S FLORIAN WIRTZ SCORED AT ONLY 10 MINS. INTO THE GAME, AND JAMAL MUSIALA SCORED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AT 19 MINS., AND THEN WHEN SOME ARGEY-BARGEY BETWEEN RYAN PORTEOUS AND ILKAY GUNDOGAN MEANT THAT RYAN PORTEOUS WAS SENT OFF, KAI HAVERTZ ‘MADE HAY’ AND CONVERTED FROM THE SPOT AT 45 +1 MINS., MEANING THAT GERMANY WERE 3 – 0 UP BEFORE HALF-TIME! AND THEN WITH NICLAS FULLKRUG SCORING AT 68 MINS., AND EMRA CAN SCORING A LATE FINISHER AT 90 +3 MINS., IT WAS A REGULAR GERMAN GOALATHON. HOWEVER, ANTONIO RUDIGER’S OWN GOAL AT 87 MINS. PUT A SMILE BACK ON THE TRAVELLING TARTAN ARMY’S FACES, MEANING THAT THE MATCH ENDED IN A 5 – 1 WIN TO GERMANY. THERE WERE 15 FOULS ON THE GERMAN SIDE, AND 9 ON THE SCOTLAND SIDE, WITH GERMANY CLOCKING UP 2 YELLOW CARDS, AND SCOTLAND 1. (PLUS THE 1 RED CARD FOR SCOTLAND.) SCOTLAND WILL GO ON TO PLAY SWITZERLAND ON WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE, WHILST GERMANY WILL ALSO PLAY HUNGARY NEXT ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 19.
EUROS 2024: GERMANY VS SCOTLAND (BBC) – 14/06/2024
EUROS 2024: GERMANY VS SCOTLAND (ITV) – 14/06/2024
NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN THIS MORNING SCOTLAND YOU TRIED YOUR BEST. THESE EARLY GAMES CAN SOMETIMES BE A ‘HEADS-UP’ FOR POLITE TEAMS TO EXPECT EXTREMELY PHYSICAL MATCHES FROM HEREONIN!
SCOTLAND MANAGER GIVES POST-MATCH INTERVIEW FOLLOWING THE GERMANY VS SCOTLAND MATCH
