Falkirk’s Scott Bain has replaced the retired Gordon in the squad for this Nations League campaign but there is a sense Scotland are not as blessed in the goalkeeping department as they have been in years gone by.<\/p>\n
So, will Pocognoli be tempted to make a change in goals for the upcoming matches against North Macedonia on Saturday and Slovenia on Tuesday?<\/p>\n
“I don’t think there’s somebody that’s battering the door down to take his jersey because a lot of them aren’t playing football,” said Halliday. <\/p>\n
“He probably is the number one deservedly but you never feel as confident with Angus Gunn between the sticks as you would have done a Craig Gordon, an Allan McGregor, a David Marshall, a Jim Leighton, an Andy Goram. They have been our goalies for the last 20-25 years.<\/p>\n
“I’m looking at the first and the third goal – and I might be in the minority for the third goal, I think a lot of people will think it’s been hit with such pace – but the goalies I mentioned there, do they save them? I think they do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falkirk’s Scott Bain has replaced the retired Gordon in the squad for this Nations League campaign but there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-865843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}