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Scotland 0-0 Portugal debrief
The Scotsman
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15/10/2024
Mark Atkinson reports from the goalless draw at Hampden.
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Good evening from Hampden Park. All quiet and dark here now. An hour or so ago Scotland
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were playing out a pretty impressive 0-0 draw with Portugal in the Nations League. That's
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Steve Clarke's men up and running in the campaign. A really hard-fought, gritty performance from
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Scotland. Excellent defensively against a really talented Portugal team. It would be
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unfair to single out too many of the defenders but John Soutar and Grant Hamley really dealt
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with Cristiano Ronaldo well. He's still waiting to score a goal on Scottish. So they had plenty
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of chances to Portugal, number 9, but was unable to take them. A lot of his efforts
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going over the bar or wide. Craig Gordon made a big save to the 9. Bruno Fernandes, Leiton,
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Debutant Nicky Devlin who came on it right back with just a couple of minutes to go.
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A huge block from a steering Raphael Lear volley. That all contributed to a really big
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point for Scotland and it stops the rot in terms of losing anyway. Scotland are still
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on a run of 1 win in 16 matches which is not pretty viewing by any stretch of the imagination.
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What this result should do is give them a platform to build upon when the Nations League
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reconvenes next month when they play Croatia here on November 15 and then Poland three
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days later away from home. You're hoping by then Scotland will have some of their normal
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mainstays back in the squad. Remember more than a dozen what you would call regular picks
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for Scotland weren't here and that really meant that the players that had to play in
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Croatia were called upon once more in this match and they entered the tank once more.
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I think the fans here at a packed Hamden probably left with a little bit more optimism than
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they have done recently. Certainly Steve Clarke was in a good mood in his post-match press
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conference hailing a number of his players. I thought the most important thing was probably
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the performance of John Souter and Grant Hanley in the centre half. It's a new partnership
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they've put together but they were very impressive keeping a number of Portugal players quiet
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and it's really pleasing in particular to see John Souter who's had such an unfortunate
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time in terms of Scotland playing really well. So yeah the international window ends on a
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positive note. Scotland have finished off this international break with a goalless draw
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against a very good Portugal team at Hamden.
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