Scotland vs Cyprus Preview 25/03/2023

Scotland vs Cyprus – 25/03/2023

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Scotland will kick off their Euro 2024 qualifying marketing campaign with what must be a straightforward night time’s work at Hampden Park with the Scots aiming to make it to back-to-back European Championships for first time because the Nineties.

Scotland final made it to consecutive tournaments at continental degree once they certified for Euro 1992 and Euro 1996. They did, nevertheless, have a troublesome time of issues again at Euro 2020, with their solely optimistic outcome being a 0-0 draw to the finalists England.

The Scots have now additionally not performed a recreation since shedding 2-1 to Turkey again in a pleasant in the course of the World Cup which they didn’t qualify for. John McGinn scored a purpose within the second half of that 2-1 loss.

Again within the Nations League, Scotland really had a comparatively optimistic time. They completed prime of a gaggle the place they weren’t anticipated too, as they secured 4 wins, drew as soon as and misplaced the opposite recreation by scoring 11 targets and letting in 5.

Steve Clarke led his facet to well-known wins over Eire and Ukraine, scoring 5 targets and letting in simply two throughout these video games, though they have been additionally overwhelmed 3-0 in Dublin by Eire.

Clarke’s facet did additionally come inside touching distance of qualifying for the World Cup however misplaced to Ukraine in a playoff battle 3-1 at Hampden Park.

There are some notable absentees for Scotland heading into these set of fixtures, as Jack Hendry is out injured, whereas Craig Gordon missed out on a callup.

Calvin Ramsey can also be out injured alongside David Turnbull, and Ross Stewart hasn’t made it again in time both with yet one more harm. Goalscoring consideration will now fall on the shoulders of Lyndon Dykes, Ryan Christie and Che Adams.

As for Cyprus, they head into this one off the again of only one win of their Nations League marketing campaign and and not using a recreation because the conclusion of that competitors in September. In that ultimate recreation, the nation noticed a 5-1 demolition towards Kosovo away from residence.

Cyprus did handle to stun Greece 1-0 simply earlier than this and secured a 2-2 draw towards the percentages towards Northern Eire simply previous to that. However, not a lot is predicted of them in these Euro 2024 qualifiers and it could be nothing in need of a miracle in the event that they have been to qualify right here.

Forebet predicts a win for Scotland and for the sport to see over 2.5 targets.