2-0: A resilient Scotland won a game that was suspended for more than an hour and a half

Scotland walk briskly towards euro 2024. The difficult choice of Stephen Clarke count their games (4) by victories, after winning this Tuesday (2-0) with authority Georgia in a meeting that was suspended for over an hour and a half. A downpour of rain Glasgow the lawn was flooded hampden park and had to stop the duel in the 10th minute, shortly after callum mcgregor caught up with the locals. After a very long suspense, the match can be resumed with another goal from Scott McTominay and the Georgian team, next rival of Choosing Spanish in Tbilisi (Friday, September 8), he could not avoid the ’12 of 12′ of Group A leaders. The Scots are nine points ahead of redwho missed two games due to his involvement in the League of Nations which ended in a win against Croatia.

The game started on a completely flooded pitch, where the ball is barely rollingand there is great pressure from Scotland, who topped the scoreboard (6′). Corner taken by McGinn, dykes the play was extended inside the area and the ball fell to mcgregorwho didn’t forgive a strong right hand that he couldn’t stop Giorgi Mamardashvili, goalkeeper of Valencia. A little checked by VARbut what went to the light.

immediately, the match official, the Hungarian Istvan Vad, the match was stopped when it was verified that the field was not suitable for soccer practice because it was completely flooded by the rain that fell on the mythical stadium of hampden parkwhich recorded an exceptional atmosphere despite the inclement weather.

A piece of land converted into a ‘swimming pool’

After the referee’s talk with the Georgia (Kashia) and Scotland (Robertson) captains.the game was suspended in the 10th minute, when the rain stopped, and the players of both teams went to the changing rooms, while a large group of workers, under blaring music to ‘entertain’ the public present in the stadium, they toiled with rollers and brushes to remove large amount of water that’s on a lawn that doesn’t drain well enough.

Scotland manager Stephen Clarkeand the referee never stops looking at the sky Glasgowstruck by dark clouds, waiting for the playing field to improve its terrible state, although at first glance it does not seem so bad.

After more than half an hour, Istvan Vad and one of his assistants made a detailed inspection of a field that still had a lot of water and that made the ball bounce in difficulty. After inspecting the field of play, the referee returned to the locker room, at which point the heavy rain began to fall again.

A little while later, the players of both teams returned to the field after nearly 50 minutes of tension and long waiting to perform a new warm-up under the pouring rain, while the three referees also ran around the still-flooded grass, which they subjected to all kinds of tests to see if it was in minimal condition for the fight.

After an hour and 37 minutes of suspense and taking advantage of the fact that the rain had stopped, the match resumed in the 10th minute, with 1-0 in favor of Scotlandthanks in advance mcgregormidfielder of Glasgow Celtic.

Scotland, upright and pressing

With a slow playing field and still spitting water, the locals did not recognize the forced stoppage and went back to take the initiative vertically and press the football. The front dykes He made it 2-0 in the 15th minute with a header very close to the Georgian team’s goal.

The choice of French Willy Sagnol They came out cold and depleted, and had almost no signs of attack against the stout Scottish defence, conceding just one goal in this qualifying round. His great figure, the end of Naples Kvaratskhelia, was almost never seen. On the brink of rest, a Mamardashvili’s miraculous hand very avoided McTominay.

Once the second half started (47′), the player from Manchester Utdwho did not stop searching for the goal of Georgia, did not forgive with a left-footed shot from the balcony of the area that made the stretch of Mamardashvili. Scotland He left success on the path he believed in from start to finish.

Kvaratskhelia missed a penalty in the 94′

Georgia tried to wake up in the final stretch with two very dangerous shots from the striker Mikautadze the goal is new Gunn, who until that moment had lived a fearless night. At the discount, visitors saw a VAR penalty by hand from the side Hickey what went wrong Kvaratskhelia with a shot in the clouds. So ended an ‘infinite’ game that started on Tuesday, June 20, at 8:45 pm, and ended at 12:21 am on Wednesday 21st. With much success, the following appointment of Scotland It’s on September 8 against the lowest team Cyprus in Nicosia.