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Topic: Scotland 3 - 1 Greece FT
1. Author: Rusty Shackleford Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 10:25 There`s no thread on this yet so here we go. I`m heading through tonight, becoming a regular thing after not really going to any Scotland matches for years. I enjoy my trips to Hampden, mainly as it gives me an altogether different set of emotions and new ways to be disappointed by football. A change is as good as a rest, you know what they say. Could be any result tonight but I`m buoyed by the fact that some of our key players are heading into it with regular game time and in decent form. If I`m Steve Clarke I`m getting the ball to (Gannon) Doak at every opportunity and getting the crowd on their feet so with that in mind i`m going to enjoy his four minute cameo off the bench once we`re chasing a goal. Reply
2. Author: Fethiyespar Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 10:45 Watching the game on a Greek Island (Kastellorizo), should be lively. ... Reply
3. Author: Playup_Pompey Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 11:19 Lessons to be learned about how easily they cut us apart in the last visit to Hampden but bouyed by the discipline we showed defensivley in Copenhagen last month. Expect a similar line up Gunn Hickey Soutar Hanley Robertson McGinn McTominay Gilmour (ferguson) Christie Adams Dykes Disciplined and structures in defence with outlets to attack when we are in possession. A win tonight and going 4 points clear of the Greeks with 3 games to play is massive whilst Danes likley take 4/5 goals off a poor Belaraus side Reply
4. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 12:53 Playup_Pompey, Thu 9 Oct 11:19 Lessons to be learned about how easily they cut us apart in the last visit to Hampden but bouyed by the discipline we showed defensivley in Copenhagen last month. Expect a similar line up Gunn Hickey Soutar Hanley Robertson McGinn McTominay Gilmour (ferguson) Christie Adams Dykes Disciplined and structures in defence with outlets to attack when we are in possession. A win tonight and going 4 points clear of the Greeks with 3 games to play is massive whilst Danes likley take 4/5 goals off a poor Belaraus side Id like him go stick to 4 at the back and have an extra in midfield, but I fear he will go back to 5 at the back tonight for some reason. Whoever is marking Karetsas tonight has to keep tight and make him feel uncomfy early on. If he’s allowed free rein we are in trouble. Two big games this week, take 6 points and we have a chance of topping group. Anything less and it will be hard. Post Edited (Thu 09 Oct 12:53) Reply
5. Author: AdamAntsParsStripe Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 14:24 Dave_1885, Thu 9 Oct 12:53 Playup_Pompey, Thu 9 Oct 11:19 Lessons to be learned about how easily they cut us apart in the last visit to Hampden but bouyed by the discipline we showed defensivley in Copenhagen last month. Expect a similar line up Gunn Hickey Soutar Hanley Robertson McGinn McTominay Gilmour (ferguson) Christie Adams Dykes Disciplined and structures in defence with outlets to attack when we are in possession. A win tonight and going 4 points clear of the Greeks with 3 games to play is massive whilst Danes likley take 4/5 goals off a poor Belaraus side Id like him go stick to 4 at the back and have an extra in midfield, but I fear he will go back to 5 at the back tonight for some reason. Whoever is marking Karetsas tonight has to keep tight and make him feel uncomfy early on. If he’s allowed free rein we are in trouble. Two big games this week, take 6 points and we have a chance of topping group. Anything less and it will be hard. Listened to Sportsound podcast and Karetsas is doubtful to start having been ill recently. Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte Reply
6. Author: NMCmassive Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 17:10 I think he’ll go a bit of a 4-2-3-1. Greeks strength is in midfield/attacking midfield. I think he’ll flood it with bodies then try and create chances from wide. COYP Reply
7. Author: AdamAntsParsStripe Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 18:11 NMCmassive, Thu 9 Oct 17:10 I think he’ll go a bit of a 4-2-3-1. Greeks strength is in midfield/attacking midfield. I think he’ll flood it with bodies then try and create chances from wide. Yeah I’m expecting 1 up front tonight with Dykes and a five in midfield Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte Reply
8. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 18:55 Gunn Hickey Souttar Hanley Robertson Ferguson Christie Doak McTominay McGinn Adams Starting line up Im guessing Post Edited (Thu 09 Oct 18:56) Reply
9. Author: wee eck Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 19:01 LINE-UPS from Hampden published at 18:36 BST 18:36 BST Scotland v Greece (19:45 BST) Scotland: Gunn, Hickey, Hanley, Souttar, Robertson, Gannon-Doak, Ferguson, Christie, McGinn, McTominay, Adams. Substitutes: Kelly, Gordon, Tierney, Gilmour, Dykes, Hendry, Miller, McKenna, Hirst, Bowie, Ralston, McLean. Greece: Tzolakis, Vagiannidis, Mavropanos, Koulierakis, Tsimikas, Kourbelis, Zafeiris, Masouras, Baketsas, Tzolis, Pavlidis. Substitutes: Vlachodimos, Mandas, Michailidis, Ioannidis, Douvikas, Rota, Mouzakitis, Konstantelias, Karetsas, Mantalos, Giannoulis, Siopis. Reply
10. Author: Raymie the Legend Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 19:09 that`s a decent line up. It`s bloody tough being a legend Ron Atkinson - 1983 Reply
11. Author: buffy Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 19:39 Mon Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply
12. Author: Paralex Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 19:56 Should be 0-1. What a miss. Reply
13. Author: AdamAntsParsStripe Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 19:58 Struggling to find our feet and should be a goal down already. Have we learned anything from the 3-0 in March? Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte Reply
14. Author: Paralex Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 20:01 Doak looks out of his depth and early doors we look very poor. Post Edited (Thu 09 Oct 20:02) Reply
15. Author: Lucho_8 Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 20:16 Been horrendous so far. Reply
16. Author: Jeffery Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 20:17 Much better side than us. Well done incredibly well to weather this. Reply
17. Author: Parsweep Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 20:19 I wish we could just have a go . Clarke must be the most negative manager in the world . That`s including Levein . Another awful watch so far . Bobvo Reply
18. Author: kelty_par Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 20:36 No movement, passing far too slow, inviting the press, nothing sticking up top... it`s just like some Pars matches of recent vintage. Reply
19. Author: d3monstrate Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 20:38 The couple of times we pressed their back line, we won the ball back and had our best spells. They`re pressing with a front 4, winning nothing when it gets played forward, and really missing Gilmour making the space. Ferguson and Christie have struggled to have the same impact. Reply
20. Author: desparado Date: Thu 9th Oct 2025. 20:45 In modern football you need defenders that are comfortable on the ball and can bring it out from defence and break forward into midfield and link play. Mullen and J Tod are perfect examples. Soutar and Hanley may be decent enough defenders but they are dinosaurs when it comes to looking comfortable on the ball and bring it out as opposed to continually passing side ways and backwards or hoofing it up the park. Back four means we have no wing backs. Not pressing as a team either so it’s no surprised we have been dreadful in an attacking sense. Get Tierney on, go to a back five, get wing backs up the field. Ferguson off. He has been poor every single time I have seen him in a Scotland shirt. No idea how he is revered in Bologna. Average at best. What an opportunity we missed in 2014. Reply

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