Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Mon Scotland!

August is the wrong time to be playing crucial World Cup qualifying matches, as George Burley knows. Still, now's not the time to discuss how we got into this - instead, all the focus needs to be on beating Norway this afternoon.

Scotland seem to have enough up front to cause Norway problems, and surely between Ross McCormack, James McFadden, even Kenny Miller or Steven Fletcher, we can get a goal. The real test will be at the back: if the Caldwell brothers play together as expected, let's hope they use some brotherly understanding to form a tight grip on the game, especially if Alan Hutton and Steven Whittaker are the two full backs.

They are both decent footballers, but they are not the most defensively-minded.

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