{"id":265998,"date":"2025-11-16T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:01:30","slug":"how-scottish-media-rated-liverpool-stalwart-in-defeat-to-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265998\/","title":{"rendered":"How Scottish media rated Liverpool stalwart in defeat to Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool defender Andy Robertson was involved in a five-goal thriller for Scotland on Saturday night as their prospects of automatic World Cup qualification remain intact.<\/p>\n

An hour into their match against Greece, Steve Clarke\u2019s side appeared to be heading for an ignominious defeat as they fell 3-0 behind, but by the 70th minute they\u2019d reduced the deficit to just one, with their first goal coming from former Reds youngster Ben Gannon Doak.<\/p>\n

Despite the disappointing result in Piraeus, the Scots had good news from elsewhere as Denmark were surprisingly held to a draw at home to Belarus, which leaves them needing a result at Hampden Park on Tuesday to finish top of the group and avoid the play-off lottery.<\/p>\n

What did Scottish media say about Robertson\u2019s performance?<\/p>\n

The general verdict from the Scottish media on Robertson\u2019s performance echoed that of the team as a whole \u2013 not the most auspicious of starts, but grew into the game amid the second-half fightback.<\/p>\n

The Scotsman<\/a>\u2018s Mark Atkinson wrote that the Liverpool left-back \u2018will not be pleased with his role\u2019 in Anastasios Bakasetas\u2019 early opener for Greece, but the 31-year-old \u2018showed all his experience and influence\u2019 to inspire the recovery from 3-0 down to almost salvage a point.<\/p>\n

In handing out a 5\/10 rating, Josh McCafferty of Herald Scotland<\/a> opined that the Reds\u2019 number 26 \u2018endured a poor start\u2019 and was \u2018tormented\u2019 by teenage attacker Konstantinos Karetsas, but praised the captain\u2019s \u2018terrific cross\u2019 to Ryan Christie for the second Scottish goal.<\/p>\n

\"Andy(Photo by Milos Bicanski\/Getty Images)Robertson striving to hold off Kerkez for Liverpool starting berth<\/p>\n

The statistics from last night\u2019s match would also indicate that Robertson had a mixed night against Greece, with a mixture of positives and negatives.<\/p>\n

As per Sofascore<\/a>, the Liverpool star claimed an assist, completed 82% of his passes, played one key pass, made three clearances and put in five accurate crosses. However, he lost four of his five duels and had one error leading to a shot for the opposition, while he lost the ball 20 times in total.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old \u2013 who recently said that he\u2019s \u2018relaxed<\/a>\u2018 about his contract situation at Anfield \u2013 has been enjoying regular football of late after beginning the season as backup to Milos Kerkez in the Reds\u2019 starting XI, and he\u2019ll be mindful that his younger understudy could put the international window to very good use.<\/p>\n

The summer signing from Bournemouth is a fixed starter for Hungary and could help them to secure a World Cup play-off berth today if they avoid defeat at home to Republic of Ireland, so Robertson will be striving to lead by example for Scotland when they host Denmark on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In addition to boosting their respective countries\u2019 qualification chances, the two left-backs will also have one eye on securing Arne Slot\u2019s preference for a place in the Liverpool starting XI when the club season resumes next weekend.<\/p>\n

You can watch Slot\u2019s full post-Man City press conference via\u00a0Empire of the Kop<\/a>\u00a0on YouTube:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool defender Andy Robertson was involved in a five-goal thriller for Scotland on Saturday night as their prospects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-265998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265998","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=265998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}