World Cup quarter-finalists Switzerland opened their campaign with a 3-0 victory away to North Macedonia.<\/p>\n
They are ranked 14th by Fifa – 28 places above Scotland – and the teams drew 1-1 at Euro 2024, while their last meeting at Hampden was a 3-1 friendly win for the visitors 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
Pocognoli hoped Scotland could use the Slovenia match as “like a training session” for the visit of Murat Yakin’s side.<\/p>\n
When asked about his objectives for Tuesday, he said: “To play 90 minutes like we finished the game in Slovenia.<\/p>\n
“The idea will be always and certainly at home to try to take the control of the game as much as possible.<\/p>\n
“It will be a special moment, first time at home. I’m really looking forward for that moment since I’ve been appointed. As a new gaffer, that was really the date that was in my schedule that I want to experience.”<\/p>\n
Billy Gilmour returned with a player-of-the-match display against Slovenia after missing the World Cup through injury.<\/p>\n
Ferguson, who experienced the same injury anguish for Euro 2024, welcomed Gilmour into the fold and believes the two friends have what it takes to form a long-term midfield partnership.<\/p>\n
“It’s great to have him back,” said Ferguson. “We work off each other really well, two completely different profiles and it suits us both. We saw that in the game.<\/p>\n
“We bring different things to the pitch and I thought it worked.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Cup quarter-finalists Switzerland opened their campaign with a 3-0 victory away to North Macedonia. They are ranked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785828","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\/785828","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=785828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}