{"id":635088,"date":"2026-06-12T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635088\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:47:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-you-are-scotland-boss-steve-clarke-what-would-you-do-against-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635088\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: You are Scotland boss Steve Clarke – what would you do against Haiti?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does a clinical first-half showing in a blistering opening period against Bolivia<\/a> in New Jersey mean there will be little change for a seismic Haiti encounter?<\/p>\n

Captain Andy Robertson and Aaron Hickey seem to be certainties in the full-back positions, while winger Ben Gannon-Doak, midfielder Scott McTominay – tummy trouble permitting – and striker Shankland are all expected to start.<\/p>\n

Shankland worked well with Adams on Saturday and the hope from many of the Tartan Army will be that they are paired together again.<\/p>\n

Former Scotland striker Kenny Miller says he would be “very surprised” if the duo do not spearhead a 4-4-2.<\/p>\n

“Clarke has played that formation for these two preparation games,” he said. “It makes sense and he’s looked at a couple of different combinations within that.<\/p>\n

“The performance on Saturday with Shankland and Adams – and the fact they were both on the scoresheet – means I would be very surprised if it wasn’t those two.”<\/p>\n

In the midfield four behind them, Christie and Ferguson will likely be battling it out for the final spot if Aston Villa captain John McGinn comes back into the XI.<\/p>\n

It is assumed goalkeeper Angus Gunn will be first pick after playing the full 90 minutes against Bolivia, but there is uncertainty about the centre-backs.<\/p>\n

Scott McKenna, John Souttar, Grant Hanley and Jack Hendry all received minutes in the past two friendlies, so Clarke has a decision or two to make in his backline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does a clinical first-half showing in a blistering opening period against Bolivia in New Jersey mean there will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-635088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635088","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=635088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}