Scotland manager Steve Clarke: “I wasn’t happy with the start. The game didn’t reflect how well Curacao actually played, the scoreline ran away from them a little bit. At 11v11, we had a little bit of work to do.<\/p>\n
“We had to get a lot of players on the pitch just to give them a chance to play again. Quite a lot of them haven’t had many minutes through the second half of the season, and I think that showed towards the start of the game.<\/p>\n
“We’re not too sure how bad Billy Gilmour’s injury is right now. He will be assessed overnight, fingers crossed that the wee man is fine.<\/p>\n
“I said already, it will be a squad tournament, not just a starters tournament, so next week is about getting used to the climate and the heat, and then for 60\/65 minutes there will be a strong side out against Bolivia.”<\/p>\n
Scotland goalscorer Findlay Curtis: “I’m buzzing, it’s everything I’ve dreamed of, I’m delighted to get that spot in the World Cup.<\/p>\n
“My mum and dad are in Tenerife, I booked for us all to go, and then I couldn’t go, so they’ll be over there watching with pride. I can’t believe everything that’s going on at the minute, I just need to soak it all in.”<\/p>\n
Scotland goalscorer Lawrence Shankland: “We wanted to go to America on the back of a win and it was important we got that. <\/p>\n
“The start of the game was quite difficult and we got fortunate with the red card but after that, we looked like the only team that was going to score.<\/p>\n
“Every goal you score for your country, you’re delighted. It’s a special day, I had my kid as the mascot as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland manager Steve Clarke: “I wasn’t happy with the start. The game didn’t reflect how well Curacao actually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-612241","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\/612241","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=612241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}