Scotland 1 Switzerland 1
The dream is still alive for Norwich City’s trio of Euro 2024 campaigners after Scotland drew with Switzerland in Cologne.
Grant Hanley, Angus Gunn and Kenny McLean all featured in a game that Scotland could not afford to lose after their opening day 5-1 battering by hosts Germany. They must now beat Hungary on Sunday to stand a chance of making it through to the knockout stages.
"Personally, I was hurting after the game on Friday night," he said. "I don't think I did myself justice. I think a lot of the boys in the dressing room felt like that as well and that was the motivation for today - to show everyone what we are all about and I think everyone to a man did that today.
"Everything from the start was 10 times better from the game on Friday night.
"You can see how much of a lift it gives the players and the fans as well, that was really the boost that we needed at the start of the game and getting the goal in the first half was good as well.
"I thought it was a pretty even second half and probably could have gone either way but we will take it into the last game again."
Gunn's Canaries team-mate Hanley was almost an unlikely goal-scoring hero for the Scots but saw a brave second-half header come back off the woodwork.
The 32-year-old came in for Ryan Porteous, who was red-carded against Germany, and played the full 90 minutes. McLean started on the bench for the second game in a row, finally getting on to the pitch on 79 minutes when he replaced former Norwich City loanee Billy Gilmour.
It was Gilmour who teed up a break which ended with Scott McTominay’s deflected opener for Scotland on 13 minutes.
But it was all square on 26 minutes when Xherdan Shaqiri pounced on Anthony Ralston’s loose ball, his brilliant strike leaving Gunn with no chance.
Minutes later Gunn saved well to his left to deny Dan Ndoye, before an offside flag spared his blushes from the ensuing corner.
Hanley’s big chance came on 66 minutes when he stooped to head Andy Robertson’s free-kick against a post.
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