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Scotland v Ukraine (21st Sep)


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11 minutes ago, BingMcCrosby said:

Yeah its a fair point, he was probably the worst player if you want to go looking for that.

Just to go completely against the we shouldn't be shoehorning in players, id be tempted to play Robertson there in front of Tierney.

Opposite for me, Id play Tierney ahead of Robertson oi we stay with this formation.

Robertson needs space to run into whereas Tierney is better at carrying the ball. I genuinely think Robertson is lost without someone on front of him to create space.

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Just now, Jacky1990 said:

Opposite for me, Id play Tierney ahead of Robertson oi we stay with this formation.

Robertson needs space to run into whereas Tierney is better at carrying the ball. I genuinely think Robertson is lost without someone on front of him to create space.

Tbh, id just let the pair of them sort it out. One runs forward one covers. Both play both positions

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We're a weird team currently.

Plenty sides are capable of inconsistency, but we seem to take it to extremes.  In the last year, we've delivered a couple of really complete performances.  Between them though, we managed to produce some utterly pitiful stuff. 

That was hugely encouraging tonight, but I've still got little idea what to expect on Saturday.

 

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1 minute ago, Cardle is Magic said:

I'd take Crocker narrating my everyday life over having to endure Matterface tbf.

Even McCoist seemed low energy next to that dullard.

Only on the bus back now so I’ve only had the chance to get the twitter clips with Rory Hamilton’s commentary, but I can guarantee he’s infinitely better than both 

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Just now, Monkey Tennis said:

We're a weird team currently.

Plenty sides are capable of inconsistency, but we seem to take it to extremes.  In the last year, we've delivered a couple of really complete performances.  Between them though, we managed to produce some utterly pitiful stuff. 

That was hugely encouraging tonight, but I've still got little idea what to expect on Saturday.

 

Yeah if we had played like that in the first ukraine game and all that.

But there's no point looking backwards its done now. It was a big step forward for us tonight.

 

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17 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:

He was.  I remember noticing Ryan Christie putting on about a stone in muscle and becoming a much more effective player for it.  Hickey seems to have done the same, albeit he was about 12 when I saw him playing regularly for Hearts. 

Hickey has the potential to be ridiculous. In a good way.

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2 minutes ago, Craig fae the Vale said:

Just home, what a second half. Looked like a totally different team when we switched to the back four.

Second half performance was as good as I've seen from us in a long time. No voice left, can't believe I have to go to work tomorrow. 

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Looked like a back four from the start to me. McTominay might have dropped deep on occasion but he mainly played in the midfield throughout. 

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1 minute ago, KirkieRR said:

Not sure what surprised me most: how poor Ukraine were (relative to last June), or how good we were, especially in the last half hour.

 

Have McTominay or Christie, for starters, ever played better for Scotland?

McTominay > Casemiro. Scotland >  Brazil. S-t-r-e-c-h-I-n-g.

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IMO part of Ukraine’s below par performance is related to the fact that the domestic league has now resumed and therefore the national team had the same amount of prep time as we did, whereas in June our players were knackered from the long season whilst there’s had been in training together for weeks. 
 

I would think in a series of neutral venue games with everyone fit and equal prep time, Scotland and Ukraine are roughly evenly matched teams. 

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