Scotland have exited the 2024 European Football Championships in Germany at the group stage after a largely disappointing campaign.
Hopes were high that Scotland could make the knockout stages of a major mens football tournament for the first time but all three matches were to end in relatively uninspiring performances for The Tartan army who travelled in large numbers.
BBC REPORT – Tom English
‘Scotland stunned, sickened, suckered and out of Euros’
‘Outcome the same, only year and city changes’
Scotland needed that break because their overall play was inaccurate and unthreatening. Same old, same old.
We reached the 97th minute and at last they had a shot on target, although even it was questionable given there may have been an offside in the preamble.
Grant Hanley had that chance, a close-range curler that was slapped away by Peter Gulacsi in the Hungary goal.
A loose ball then broke to Callum McGregor, only a heroic block denied him a crack from close distance and you know the rest.
A late kick to the solar plexus. In Scotland’s monumental pursuit of a place in the knockouts of a major tournament, the outcome is always the same.
The only thing that changes is the year and the city in which the horror show unfolds.
READ FULL REPORT ON BBC SCOTLAND: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c25559n0re2o
RESULTS
Germany 5 – 1 Scotland
Scotland 1 – 1 Switzerland
Hungary 1 – 0 Scotland
MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
What now for Clarke as Scotland’s ongoing deterioration continues?
Article by BBC Scotland – Tom English
‘The agony, the ignominy and the long road home. The team that said they were in Germany to make history retreated on Monday with a notoriety of an altogether different kind.
Scotland’s performance was, indeed, the stuff of legend, in one sense. Their statistics belong in a hall of shame, or one of those odditoriums with magic mirrors and optical illusions.
Generations would stare in wonder at the numbers Scotland delivered here and question how on earth they could be so poor. Two goals (neither of them finished by a Scottish player) was bad enough, but three shots on target in three games is a lamentable figure.
Seven individual players from other nations have had more shots on target than all of Scotland’s players put together – and six of that seven have only played two games. Fifteen other players have already equalled Scotland’s overall total.’
READ FULL ARTICLE ON BBC SCOTLAND: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9777vz1d08o
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