Scotland v Israel

[Todd_is_God]

This is the type of defending I get annoyed with when Hamilton shoehorn their youth team into games v the OF.

6 Scotland players there, can't hold a line, and not one can track and get goalside of a single runner.

Poor stuff

[Jacky1990]

1 minute ago, virginton said:

Isn't the job of a centre forward for a team playing at home to mediocre opponents you need to be beating to, erm, score some goals? It's absolutely baffling to me that Scotland fans are not only talking themselves into having the luxury of someone playing the 'Giroud role' up front for all the world-class supporting players to score the goals for them but are also talking up a total carthorse like Lyndon fucking Dykes as the player to do that job. 

McGinm, Christie, McGregor and Forrest should have been more than able to support Dykes tonight. They didnt. Thats not his fault.

[Guest bernardblack]

Play Robertson or Tierney.

It’s a big decision to make but it needs to be made.

[DC92]

Absolutely incredible that that formation lasted the 90 minutes. Levein-in-Prague levels of stubbornness.

Zero signs of improvement under Clarke so far. At least McLeish gave us one or two exciting attacking performances.

[kingjoey]

The passage of play with 30 seconds left in a game that we should be winning every day of the week, summed the night up. The ball went along the back from right to left and then back along from left to right. 

[Grangemouth Bairn]

Faddy saying Forrest had a great game as is Mulgrew. Pair of arseholes.

[theauldyin]

Chris burke is 36, but at least he would put in a shift, Forrest ! a total waste of jersey. 

[Jacky1990]

1 minute ago, bernardblack said:

Play Robertson or Tierney.

It’s a big decision to make but it needs to be made.

Or Tierney at centre back or right back in a 4.

Literally anything other sacrifice the entire team just to shoehorn him and Robertson onto the left side.

[bairney]

Clarke - yer teas oot. Czech Republic will hammer us.

A 5-0 defeat looks promising at the bookies.

[HuttonDressedAsLahm]

4 minutes ago, virginton said:

Isn't the job of a centre forward for a team playing at home to mediocre opponents you need to be beating to, erm, score some goals? It's absolutely baffling to me that Scotland fans are not only talking themselves into having the luxury of someone playing the 'Giroud role' up front for all the world-class supporting players to score the goals for them but are also talking up a total carthorse like Lyndon fucking Dykes as the player to do that job. 

Well that’s a lonely interpretation of tonight’s problems.

[Jambomo]

Jamesy. Footballers are an inventive lot.

[greenockraver]

1 minute ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:

Faddy saying Forrest had a great game as is Mulgrew. Pair of arseholes.

faddys jumped the shark these days man . tuned to the moon . 

 

lyndon dykes currently been thrown in front of the media to explain the performance 

[ArabFC]

1 minute ago, Jacky1990 said:

Or Tierney at centre back or right back in a 4.

Literally anything other sacrifice the entire team just to shoehorn him and Robertson onto the left side.

Yup

[Ro Sham Bo]

There appears to be no sign of improvement at all under Clarke. He's miles out of his depth at this level. 

 

[DublinMagyar]

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[Snobot]

If he wants to shoehorn Tierney and Robertson into the same team he should look at what Strachan did with Mulgrew and play him (Tierney) as a CDM, I suspect he'd be very good there and would give us much more drive than Jack who I thought was terrible - slowed the game and lacked any courage to try a pass other than backwards. 3 at the back so obviously negates all our best players' strengths

[Kejan]

Just repeating what most are saying, but that was absolutely honking.

Way off the boil and no urgency, creativity or dare I say skill even? Too many overcooked or cheaply given away balls.

Positives

Dykes did well. He had a very tough job, but his hold up play, movement, wee flick ons and touches were good. A clever player and in a better side, he might have had some support or been able to get a shot on goal. He's shown more in that 70 minutes than McBurnie has in his 9 caps.

Tierney was good .The formation, system, didn't work to fit them both in ; but I thought he played well. Composed, clever, rarely gave the ball away.

McGregor and Forrest were pish. Christie was at least trying to make things happen, albeit 7/10 nothing happened/tackled or gave it away ; but he gets a pass at least creating and scoring that penalty.

McTominay playing there. WTF. Burke is a terrible footballer. He runs and tries, but he's shite. Did he find a blue shirt in his 15 minutes on the park?

The only positive I can find is that hopefully it lurs Israel in to a false sense of entitlement for next month. Even if we do shit, a 2-1 winner then ; we are going to struggle to beat Norway or Serbia.

Edited September 4, 2020 by Kejan

[Thereisalight..]

That was a brutal watch but I’m confident of a win in the play off game. 

[vikingTON]

Just now, Jacky1990 said:

McGinm, Christie, McGregor and Forrest should have been more than able to support Dykes tonight. They didnt. Thats not his fault.

Well no because those options are not even remotely good enough to build an international level attack around in the absence of a credible striker. If Scotland think that they just need a carthorse to hold the ball up and do nothing in the opposition box then they'll score under a goal per game once you take out the bottom seed pub teams.

[Guest bernardblack]

If he wants to shoehorn Tierney and Robertson into the same team he should look at what Strachan did with Mulgrew and play him (Tierney) as a CDM, I suspect he'd be very good there and would give us much more drive than Jack who I thought was terrible - slowed the game and lacked any courage to try a pass other than backwards. 3 at the back so obviously negates all our best players' strengths

Tierney in the middle of the park?

Come on now.