{"id":499578,"date":"2026-03-28T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:08:08","slug":"scotland-under-21s-held-by-czech-republic-in-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499578\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland under-21s held by Czech Republic in qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland under-21s were held to a goalless draw by the Czech Republic at Dens Park, a result which does not advance their case to make next summer&#8217;s European Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee centre-back Luke Graham was named player of the match on his home ground as Scotland put in a stout defensive performance, while not creating enough chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dunfermline Athletic&#8217;s Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen felt he should have had a stoppage-time penalty after a challenge from behind by Slavia Prague&#8217;s Tomas Jelinek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Scotland had to settle for a point which keeps them third in Group B, behind the Czechs on goal difference and five behind leaders Portugal having played a game more than both those sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The nine group winners and the best runner-up will qualify directly for the finals in Albania and Serbia in 2027, while the remaining eight runners-up will advance to the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland under-21s XI: Ruairidh Adams, Dylan Lobban, Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen, Luke Graham, Mitchel Frame, Kyle Ure, David Watson (capt), Emilio Lawrence, Adedire Mebude, Andrew Tod, Barney Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Substitutes: Liam McFarlane, Josh Dede, James Wilson, Ryan One, Taylor Steven, Tyler Fletcher, Ryan Carr, Sam Cleall-Harding, Connor Allan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland under-21s were held to a goalless draw by the Czech Republic at Dens Park, a result which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-499578","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\/499578","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=499578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}