{"id":271668,"date":"2025-11-19T13:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:14:14","slug":"scotland-qualify-for-first-world-cup-in-almost-30-years-wales-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271668\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland qualify for first World Cup in almost 30 years &#038; Wales rampant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joyous Clarke cracks a smilepublished at 11:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Scotland 4-2 Denmark<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0640b6e1-f4af-45a0-9fd4-55203b565508.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Scotland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland manager Steve Clarke on the nature of the goals scored on Tuesday evening: &#8220;Scott McTominay scored the best overhead kick I&#8217;ve ever seen and it might not have been the best goal of the night!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a lot of emotions. High and low. At times, you&#8217;re looking for solutions and thinking how to change it. I knew at some stage we&#8217;d have to go two up front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt the Danes were dominating us a little. It seemed like a good time [to make the changes]. Whether they were 10 or 11 [men], we were going to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I spoke to Kieran [Tierney] before the first game. He&#8217;s a key player for me, one of my men. I&#8217;ve got loads of them. 14 were involved in the play-off game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I said &#8216;listen, Aaron Hickey can&#8217;t do back-to-back games, I can see you coming on at right-back and doing very well for us&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure I envisioned the goal&#8230; but when it was rolling back to him on his left foot, I knew he would score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When [Kenny] hit it, I thought &#8216;what are you doing?!&#8217; but when I saw it in flight, I thought &#8216;that&#8217;s going to go in!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steve Clarke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/327b1d80-c848-494c-ad08-c977db3d9a5e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joyous Clarke cracks a smilepublished at 11:15 GMT 11:15 GMT Scotland 4-2 Denmark Scotland Scotland manager Steve Clarke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271668","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\/271668","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=271668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}