Two goals from Lawrence Shankland ensured Scotland’s big Hampden send-off before heading to the World Cup ended in victory over 10-man Curacao.<\/p>\n
In the week his summer move from Hearts to Rangers was confirmed, Shankland’s double secured the Scots a first home friendly win in a decade.<\/p>\n
Tahith Chong had given the visitors a shock lead with a terrific goal before Curacao were reduced to 10 men after striker Jurgen Locadia caught Aaron Hickey with a stray forearm.<\/p>\n
Finlay Curtis, introduced moments earlier for the injured Billy Gilmour, grabbed an equaliser just before half-time with his first international goal.<\/p>\n
Tyler Fletcher – son of former Manchester United and Scotland midfielder Darren – came on for his debut after the break, and Shankland struck twice to advance his case for a starting berth at the World Cup.<\/p>\n
Ryan Christie scored from the penalty spot late on to wrap up the win after Curtis was brought down in the penalty area.<\/p>\n
The Scotland squad fly to the United States on Sunday before their final friendly match against Bolivia in New Jersey on Sunday, 7 June. <\/p>\n
They face Haiti in their World Cup opener in Boston a week later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two goals from Lawrence Shankland ensured Scotland’s big Hampden send-off before heading to the World Cup ended in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-704135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}