No offence to Lawrence Shankland, but we’ll quickly brush his goal aside. From a yard out he stabbed Lewis Ferguson’s corner over the line to put Scotland’s fans back in dreamland, albeit briefly.<\/p>\n
Denmark equalised quickly and there wes a gut-wrenching wait until Kieran Tierney struck another absolute beauty.<\/p>\n
The game was into the second minute of added-on time – and Scotland seemed set to be condemned to the torment of the play-offs – when the ball fell to the makeshift right-back, who curled a beauty past Celtic colleague Kasper Schmeichel.<\/p>\n
A goal from the heavens, from a man who has been through so much since the summer of 2024 when his Euro campaign was cut short by a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
“It couldn’t have happened to a more favourable player going through such hard times,” Stewart said. “That is just pure class.”<\/p>\n
And head coach Clarke was pretty happy with the identity of the man who scored the goal that took Scotland to the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n
“I spoke to Kieran before the first game,” said Clarke. “He’s a key player for me, one of my men.<\/p>\n
“I said ‘listen, Aaron Hickey can’t do back-to-back games, I can see you coming on at right-back and doing very well for us’.<\/p>\n
“I’m not sure I envisioned the goal – but when it was rolling back to him on his left foot, I knew he would score.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No offence to Lawrence Shankland, but we’ll quickly brush his goal aside. From a yard out he stabbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-294177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294177","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=294177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}