Southampton striker Ross Stewart has been named in Scotland’s World Cup squad after winning a recall.<\/p>\n
The former Ross County and Sunderland forward has netted 10 goals in his last 21 appearances to help fire Saints into the Championship play-off final.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old earned his only two caps in 2022 before injury hampered his progress.<\/p>\n
He joins Che Adams, Lyndon Dykes, Lawrence Shankland and George Hirst as Scotland\u2019s striking options.<\/p>\n
Rangers winger Findlay Curtis has kept his place after making his debut against Japan in March following some good form on loan with Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n
Ben Gannon-Doak has also been included in Steve Clarke\u2019s 26-man squad after making three appearances off the bench for Bournemouth since suffering a serious hamstring injury in Scotland\u2019s win over Denmark in November<\/p>\n
Clarke has selected Angus Gunn, Craig Gordon and Liam Kelly as goalkeepers, with the three having played just seven club games between them all season. Falkirk\u2019s Scott Bain misses out having played against the Ivory Coast in March.<\/p>\n
Ross McCrorie also drops out with Aaron Hickey, Anthony Ralston and Nathan Patterson providing the right-back options.<\/p>\n
It is a familiar defensive pool for Clarke with Andy Robertson and Kieran Tierney joined by centre-backs Grant Hanley, Dom Hyam, John Souttar, Scott McKenna and Jack Hendry.<\/p>\n
There is heartbreak for Lennon Miller as the Udinese midfielder misses out. John McGinn, Kenny McLean, Scott McTominay, Billy Gilmour, Lewis Ferguson and Ryan Christie form a strong midfield section alongside wingers Curtis and Gannon-Doak.<\/p>\n
Clarke had a number of decisions to make up front with the form of Oli McBurnie, Oliver Burke and Kieron Bowie putting pressure on, but Stewart edged ahead of them and Hirst has retained his place along with regulars Dykes, Adams and Shankland.<\/p>\n
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Scotland squad<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers: Craig Gordon (Hearts), Angus Gunn (Nottingham Forest), Liam Kelly (Rangers)<\/p>\n
Defenders: Grant Hanley (Hibernian), Jack Hendry (Al Etiffaq), Aaron Hickey (Brentford), Dom Hyam (Wrexham), Scott McKenna (Dinamo Zagreb), Nathan Patterson (Everton), Anthony Ralston (Celtic), Andy Robertson (Liverpool), John Souttar (Rangers), Kieran Tierney (Celtic)<\/p>\n
Midfielders: Ryan Christie (Bournemouth), Finlay Curtis (Kilmarnock), Lewis Ferguson (Bologna), Ben Gannon-Doak (Bournemouth), Billy Gilmour (Napoli), John McGinn (Aston Villa), Kenny McLean (Norwich), Scott McTominay (Napoli)<\/p>\n
Forwards: Che Adams (Torino), Lyndon Dykes (Charlton Athletic), George Hirst (Ipswich), Lawrence Shankland (Hearts), Ross Stewart (Southampton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton striker Ross Stewart has been named in Scotland’s World Cup squad after winning a recall. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-456598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}