Scott McTominay, Kieran Tierney and Che Adams return to the Scotland squad for the remaining Nations League matches at home to North Macedonia and away to Switzerland.<\/p>\n
There is a first call up for James Penrice and uncapped Kristi Montgomery, a late addition last time, retains his place.<\/p>\n
Scott McKenna and Kenny McLean miss out through injury, while Lennon Miller, Josh Doig, Colby Donovan and James Wilson drop out.<\/p>\n
Head coach Sebastien Pocognoli chose an extended pool of 28 for the first four matches, which included disappointing home defeats to Switzerland and Slovenia.<\/p>\n
For these fixtures, the Belgian has gone with 26, sticking with four goalkeepers.<\/p>\n
Scotland are third in Group B1 and require a minimum of four points to have any chance of finishing second to feature in the promotion play-offs.<\/p>\n
One point would stave off any threat of relegation.<\/p>\n
Switzerland lead the way on maximum points, with Slovenia three ahead of Scotland.<\/p>\n
Left-back Penrice, 27, has impressed with Rangers since arriving on loan from AEK Athens, while Blackburn Rovers midfielder Montgomery, 22, has started all but one Championship match this season.<\/p>\n
Napoli star McTominay has scored four goals in seven outings since recovering from a minor heart procedure.<\/p>\n
Adams has doubled his Torino tally for the term with two goals in five Serie A games after a brief lay off with an adductor issue.<\/p>\n
Captain Andy Robertson will surpass Sir Kenny Dalglish’s record of 102 caps should the Tottenham full-back feature in both matches on 13 and 16 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott McTominay, Kieran Tierney and Che Adams return to the Scotland squad for the remaining Nations League matches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-951069","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\/951069","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=951069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}