Scotland v Spain 28/03/2023

[Dirty Sanchez]

In the first half at Hampden Park, everything happened to Porro. He slipped onto the grass shortly after the start. Andy Robertson took advantage of the loose ball and put it back to Scott McTominay. Scotland took the lead, taking advantage of the misfortune of Porro, who found himself immersed in a series of calamities accentuated a few minutes after the slip in a dispute over a throw-in. This ignited a nearby section of the stands, which began to accompany each touch from the Spanish winger with a boo. The connection with Porro spread to the entire stadium. They celebrated another slip on a clearance. The matter was triggered when, with the ball out of the field, he fell due to a collision with Robertson. He did not return after the break.

[git-intae-thum]

El Pais

It was the poor pitch and two "accidents" that done for them according to their coach.

https://elpais.com/deportes/2023-03-28/de-la-fuente-sigo-convencido-de-que-este-es-el-camino.html

Good deflection coach...but the reality is that your team are a pale comparison to the Spain teams of recent years. All fart and nae jobby.

Scotland can get a result in the away leg as well. 

 

 

[K77]

It's fucking great being Scottish.

[Gordon EF]

Porro? More like Pisho!

[git-intae-thum]

21 minutes ago, Fuctifano said:

The thing I didn't get with the Robertson yellow card was that the ref waited for Porro to get up before he showed Andy the yellow card, which took about five minutes. 

VAR isn't allowed to suggest yellow cards, only red, so why wasn't Robertson booked straight away if that's what the ref thought it was, and then it's a check to see if it should be a red instead? 

I suppose there is the very outside chance of Robertson having talked himself into a card but that seems very much to me like VAR has made a decision it's not supposed to. 

Ref and VAR bottled it. Robertson should have been off. Absolute dumpling thing tae dae..

He got away with one. Quiet word needed...He is the captain ffs.

[lubo_blaha]

Huge fan of Robertson putting their first right back on his arse for the first goal, him getting hounded for being a diving p***k and then subbed off at half time, only for Tierney to rinse his replacement minutes later for the second goal. Lovely stuff.

[craigkillie]

9 minutes ago, velo army said:

As the only person on this forum who listened to the radio, let me clear this up.

Robbo's yellow wasn't for any altercation with the player, but was for dissent. he said something to the ref in the aftermath and got booked for it.

Credit to Liam McLeod for that one.

 

I think this is highly unlikely to be the case.

[GiGi]

That was great. Saying to my mates with about 20 minutes to go it was clearly in the bag, Spain were absolutey bobbins and could be playing now on an otherwise empty park, stringing 9,000 passes together without any shots on target.

I've never felt so comfortable rinsing a supposed tier 1 team. That Scotland midfield is so good.

[Frankie S]

Fully deserved win tonight for Scotland against the Spanish formation diving team. Scott McTominay taking up where he left off in his two goal cameo against Cyprus, striding box to box like Michael Ballack in his prime, and nonchalantly chalking up another couple of goals. To think we‘ve wasted him in central defence for most of his Scotland career to date. Porteous has taken to international football luck a duck to water. No failures in the Scottish team tonight though. We’re slowly but surely becoming a force to be reckoned with after far too many years in the international wilderness.

[velo army]

Just now, craigkillie said:

 

I think this is highly unlikely to be the case.

McLeod said he went down at half time and asked the officials. He was told it was dissent.

[coprolite]

That was great. After the second went in they completely lost their shit. The more rattled they got, the funnier our gamesmanship got. Hickey rolling back onto the pitch was a belter. 

It's not like they weren't up to shenanigans. Just not as good at it as us. 

And we played some good stuff when we kept the ball. 

Lovely 

[King Kebab]

[Scary Bear]

What’s the words to that McTominay song?

[Scary Bear]

Got home 1am which is a pain in the hole but that was an excellent result. 

[Dunning1874]

We were comfortably the better team from start to finish there. It's easy to say with hindsight, but we were never in any danger of failing to win that. Even late in the first half when there was maybe a feeling of being rattled and as a fan you naturally feel nervous about the opposition dominating possession, what did they actually create? One cross in a move which started with pretty much the only defensive error from a Scotland player all night.

They had absolutely no clue how to play through us, meanwhile we created another two excellent chances and two half chances. It wouldn't remotely have flattered us to win that by more.

That puts to bed the already weak notion that the Denmark win only happened because they'd already qualified: we are simply good enough to beat teams of this calibre and deserve to do so. The challenge now is consistency and not throwing away the advantage we've built ourselves here, but Norway and Georgia will be shitting themselves after that.

[welldaft]

Great result. 

Was worried for a while that we sat off them in the 1st half a little too much.

3 times now I have seen Spain at Hampden. Aggregate score is 7-4 to the good guys.

[Jambomo]

Absolutely up there as one of the best games I’ve been to.

I fucking love this squad, they have all been brilliant. I do owe an apology to Kenny McLean, because I was very rude about him being subbed on but he didn’t put a foot wrong, and also Ryan Porteous whom I always considered a Neddy wee Hibs dick, but who is in fact the successor to Maldini. Tremendous stuff.

Can’t believe anyone could moan about Clarke’s contract being extended. He’s a fucking God.

 

 

[Mr. Brightside]

Seems utterly mental that he did it (and get it right up him for it) but the Spain manager leaving Morata, Gavi, Fabian Ruiz, Laporte, Carvajal and Nacho on the bench I guess goes to show how underestimated we were.

[Shotgun]

I'm 60 years old, had my bedroom festooned in Scotland posters in 1974, was psychological damaged in 1978 and have lived through decades of disappointment. Costa Rica, Faroe Islands, Kazakhstan, I've endured the lot.

I truly never thought I would feel this way about a Scotland team again.

Fück

King

Hell

[Pie on a Roll]

Absolutely Glorious! First half seemed to last about 3 hours but we managed to ride out the sticky spell and were in pretty much control second half. Probably the best Scotland performance I have seen in 38 years. Absolutely no failures. Atmosphere looked electric. Glad I got tickets for the Georgia game a few weeks ago as I reckon they will be all gone by tomorrow.