{"id":201456,"date":"2025-10-09T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201456\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:25:07","slug":"scotland-u21-vs-gibraltar-u21-uefa-u21-championship-qualification-stats-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201456\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland U21 vs Gibraltar U21: UEFA U21 Championship Qualification stats &#038; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emilio Lawrence and James Wilson both scored hat-tricks as Scotland Under-21s demolished Gibraltar 12-0 in a European Championship qualifier at Dens Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lawrence opened the scoring for Scot Gemmill&#8217;s side after just three minutes, opening the floodgates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Manchester City youngster struck again before half-time, with an own-goal from Kevan Gonzalez and further strikes from Dire Mebude, Kyle Ure and two from Wilson putting Scotland seven up at the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five of those seven goals came in a remarkable seven-minute spell as Gibraltar crumbled defensively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game followed a similarly one-sided pattern in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson scored his third just after the restart before Lawrence struck twice more to take Scotland to double figures on the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miller Thomson and Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen completed the scoring as the Scots secured their first win and first points of their qualifying campaign after defeats by Czech Republic and Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emilio Lawrence and James Wilson both scored hat-tricks as Scotland Under-21s demolished Gibraltar 12-0 in a European Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-201456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}