{"id":187628,"date":"2025-10-09T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/187628\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:38:07","slug":"how-scotland-can-guarantee-world-cup-play-off-place-by-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/187628\/","title":{"rendered":"How Scotland can guarantee World Cup play-off place by Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c14jg406vj8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced in March<\/a> is part of a wider deal that also includes matches involving Northern Ireland and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It included 14 live Scotland matches, the first of which was the first leg of the Nations League play-off in Greece in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coverage of Scotland&#8217;s qualifiers for the World Cup in United States, Canada and Mexico continues on Thursday when the Greeks return to Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match will be shown live on BBC Scotland, iPlayer and online, with coverage beginning at 19:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC will also show Sunday&#8217;s match at Hampden against Belarus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be full live Sportsound commentary of both qualifiers on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio Nan Gaidheal and BBC Sounds. Sunday&#8217;s match is also on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And there will be full live text coverage on the BBC Sport website and app, including as-live goal clips and all the best punditry and analysis, as well as the chance for fans to have their say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the game, you can rate the players and join in the conversation as we unpick the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC contract announced in March is part of a wider deal that also includes matches involving Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-187628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}