{"id":19763,"date":"2024-11-30T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T00:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19763"},"modified":"2024-11-30T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T00:21:38","slug":"scots-did-not-show-best-but-can-raise-bar-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19763","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Scots did not show best but can raise bar in Finland&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Black, capped 42 times by Scotland, was on punditry duty for BBC Radio Scotland at Easter Road and felt &#8220;deflated&#8221; after the 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re at home, we should take the game to Finland, we&#8217;re going into this game as favourites and we just looked a shadow of ourselves,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We looked very nervous. We dropped deep and allowed them to have possession. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re lacking cover on the bench. My worry is where are we going to get goals from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Sportsound pundit and Scotland midfielder Rachael Boyle, capped 43 times, added: &#8220;You expect more. Finland&#8217;s gameplan worked really, really well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s almost like we&#8217;ve got an imbalance on the bench. We&#8217;ve got a lot of midfielders but not a lot of attackers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got Scottish players scoring in the SWPL week in, week out. You need to start bleeding these players in because they are what&#8217;s going to come next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c3vlvknpkd0o\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Black, capped 42 times by Scotland, was on punditry duty for BBC Radio Scotland at Easter Road and felt &#8220;deflated&#8221; after the 0-0 draw. &#8220;We&#8217;re at home, we should take the game to Finland, we&#8217;re going into this game as favourites and we just looked a shadow of ourselves,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We looked very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}