Greece V Scotland: World Cup 2026 Qualifier – Live

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The teams

Greece: Vlachodimos, Vagiannidis, Koulierakis, Retsos, Kourbelis, Mouzakitis, Tzolis, Bakasetas, Pavlidis, Karetsas, Tsimikas.

Scotland: Gordon, Hickey, Hanley, Souttar, Robertson, Ferguson, Christie, McGinn, McTominay, Gannon-Doak, Adams.

Preamble

It feels strange, but Scotland find themselves successful a reasonably comfortable position. They’re already guaranteed astatine slightest a spot successful nan play-offs to suffice for adjacent year’s World Cup, truthful they’re now capable to person a proper, relatively stress-free, lunge astatine nan large prize: first spot, automatic qualification, a summons to nan finals for nan first clip since 1998. All (ahem) they request to do, assuming Denmark spot disconnected Belarus tonight, is travel distant from Greece pinch astatine slightest a point, past hit nan Danes astatine Hampden connected Tuesday. A reliable ask, but acold from a tube dream.

1. Denmark P4 W3 D1 L0 F12 A1 Pts10
2. Scotland P4 W1 D1 L0 F7 A2 Pts10
3. Greece P4 W1 D0 L3 F7 A10 Pts3
4. Belarus P4 W0 D0 L4 F2 A15 Pts0

The Greeks are already out, truthful they’ll either beryllium disinterested aliases freewheeling, stroking it astir without a attraction successful nan world. Seasoned followers of Scotland will person half an thought astir which is nan likelier, but it’s not each bad news: though Greece handed nan Scots their trousers, freshly laundered, astatine Hampden successful nan 2nd limb of nan Nations League play-offs earlier this year, Steve Clarke’s broadside won nan first limb of that necktie successful Piraeus, and besides came from down to triumph astatine Hampden past period successful these qualifiers. And 2 retired of 3 ain’t bad.

Of course, whether aliases not nan play-offs correspond overmuch of a information nett is simply a moot point. Italy will beryllium successful those, for a start, and that screams a 1-0 triumph for nan Scots astatine Hampden followed by goals for nan Azzurri successful nan 89th and 90th minutes of nan 2nd leg. But let’s transverse that span if and erstwhile it comes. For now, automatic qualification is still successful Scotland’s sight, and here’s nan first hurdle. Kick-off is astatine 7.45pm GMT. It’s on!