Czech Republic Second Goal

When Scotland lose possession, they're 30 yards out from the Czech goal.  The deepest Scottish players are 5 yards into the Czech half.  There's two Czech players just a little deeper but miles away from the nearest Scottish player. (look here - about 45 seconds in - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/57475435).

38 minutes left of time to play at 1-0 down.  I'd be asking more questions about why Scotland's defence left two Czech players in so much space for the counter attack than over Marshall's positioning.  If the left side of the Scottish defence covers the lad moving forward, that counter doesn't happen and the shot never gets hit.

Hell of a shot though, basically gave himself a tiny area to hit to stop Marshall reaching it.  Sometimes you've got to just accept quality.

Quoted from diehardmariner

When Scotland lose possession, they're 30 yards out from the Czech goal.  The deepest Scottish players are 5 yards into the Czech half.  There's two Czech players just a little deeper but miles away from the nearest Scottish player. (look here - about 45 seconds in - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/57475435).

38 minutes left of time to play at 1-0 down.  I'd be asking more questions about why Scotland's defence left two Czech players in so much space for the counter attack than over Marshall's positioning.  If the left side of the Scottish defence covers the lad moving forward, that counter doesn't happen and the shot never gets hit.

Hell of a shot though, basically gave himself a tiny area to hit to stop Marshall reaching it.  Sometimes you've got to just accept quality.

Yep, there's not much you can do against a shot like that. The Scots were a little unlucky in the way the ball ricochets off the defender when their attack broke down and falls straight to a man in space.

If they leave that kind of space against Sancho, Bellingham, Sterling, Foden etc they will get torn apart by England.

I think Czech Republic were the better team. The very few chances Scotland did have, lady luck was with Czech Republic.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I think Czech Republic were the better team. The very few chances Scotland did have, lady luck was with Czech Republic.

I don't want to offend anybody who's Scottish on here or start an argument but isn't this what we always hear from Scotland? This is supposedly their best team in years, they genuinely felt they could do well and this game was a potentially decent start for them. What we got was a poor to fair defensive performance and strikers (and a captain) who couldn't hit a cow's a*se with a banjo. They now have to play the 2 stronger teams in the group and have to get results - if it wasn't for the passion and 'auld enemy' stuff I wouldn't give them a hope in hell against England and Croatia cannot be as lacklustre against Scotland as they were against England.

They look like a classic Scottish team - a handful of genuinely decent international players and then a bunch of journeymen. I've said elsewhere, I doubt that QPR's striker is giving John Stones et al sleepless nights.

If Scotland had even half the luck that has supposedly deserted them in the last 50 years they'd have won the world cup 6 times over.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

I don't want to offend anybody who's Scottish on here or start an argument but isn't this what we always hear from Scotland? This is supposedly their best team in years, they genuinely felt they could do well and this game was a potentially decent start for them. What we got was a poor to fair defensive performance and strikers (and a captain) who couldn't hit a cow's a*se with a banjo. They now have to play the 2 stronger teams in the group and have to get results - if it wasn't for the passion and 'auld enemy' stuff I wouldn't give them a hope in hell against England and Croatia cannot be as lacklustre against Scotland as they were against England.

They look like a classic Scottish team - a handful of genuinely decent international players and then a bunch of journeymen. I've said elsewhere, I doubt that QPR's striker is giving John Stones et al sleepless nights.

If Scotland had even half the luck that has supposedly deserted them in the last 50 years they'd have won the world cup 6 times over.

I actually fancied Scotland to get through the group. They still might. But hopefully not.

The occasion definitely got to them though. The Scottish media describing it as ‘must win’ didn’t help.

Andy Robertson was pumped up like a Strathclyde séx doll and was in full on Merseyside derby mode. I think it was Coufal he hacked down in the second half, when Coufal was about 5 yards away from the ball. Not sure how he didn’t get booked at any point.

They certainly missed Tierney.