Scotland Need To Do Well In The European Championships.
Hopefully Scotland can get out of the group stage of this year's European Championships.
Steve Clarke has built a decent team. There are some really good players for Scotland.
The team needs to beat some top teams, to get through the group stages. Scotland need to be on top form and to work well.
We need Scotland to do well. Scotland held the first international match. Make Scotland win.
Scotland 4 Faroe Islands 0 - March 2021
This was a qualifier for the FIFA World Cup 2022. The Scotland v Faroe Islands game was played in Hampden Stadium, Glasgow.
A great result by the Scotland men's team.
John McGinn scored the first two goals for Scotland.
Che Adams scored the 3rd goal for Scotland.
Ryan Fraser scored the fourth goal for Scotland.
So Scotland need to keep up this decent set of results for Scotland.
This was a great result for Scotland against a difficult to beat side.
The other results in group today include;
Austria 0 Denmark 4.
Moldova 1 Israel 4.
A Team Of 10 Centre Backs, And One Keeper.
A soccer tactics idea-
I often wonder would an entire team
of centre backs work?
The centre backs are the defenders
in the centre of defence.
I do not mean to play them all as
centre backs. I mean playing the 10 centre backs in a normal formation. But
with big powerful centre backs playing as left backs, right backs, wingers, midfielders,
and strikers.
Imagine for instance an international
team obviously playing a normal goalkeeper in goal. But then if they picked all
the other positions of the team as their 10 most talented centre backs, in their
nation.
Or a club team buying 10 great
centre backs, and playing all of them in the team.
The logic behind it would be that every
player would be a big powerful player. Capable of dominating every team at set
pieces. Teams would be blown out of the water at set pieces. Both for defending
and scoring,
The team could play long ball
football in a dominating way.
I do not think Scotland, the Republic
of Ireland, Northern Ireland, or Wales could pick an entire team of centre
backs. As we probably don’t have enough big powerful centre backs for those positions.
But could the Netherlands, England,
Germany, France, The USA, Spain, Brazil, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine, Argentina,
as big heavily populated nations could pick an entire outfield team of centre
backs.
What would such a team do against a
normal team?
Imagine if England, Germany or Poland
just picked an entire team of 6 foot 4 tall players, in every position.
The problem could be that the team
might lack creativity. The team could perhaps be beaten on the wing, to humiliating
extents.
The team might not have any natural
goal scorers. The team would probably be reliant heading and set pieces.
But perhaps the winger positions
could be given to the fastest big powerful centre backs.
Would a team of 10 big powerful
centre backs just obliterate some teams? Would it be men against boys? Or would
skillful nimble teams just run rings round them?
Would fans find it boring, watching
a big powerful team?
Would this be a change that could happen
in football?
In football we saw a great Barcelona
team with Iniesta, Xavi, and Messi dominate Spanish and European football for
years. This was not an entire team of massively tall players. So you do not
have to be massive in height team to win games. Football can be about skill,
and passing.
In male international rugby union,
the teams have changed from the eighties. Players are bigger, taller, and more powerful
in many positions. Now some people say rugby union is too reliant on tall
powerful players. Some say it is going to result in serious long term damage to
players, because the players are so big when they tackle each other.
Back to soccer.
It is true that many football teams
play mostly 6 ft tall players.
But could an team be made up
entirely of tall powerful players, chosen from the centre back position?
Do you need balance in a team? A
team with a mixture of big physical players, and also fast players, and skillful
creative players.
Do you need creative players, who
can dribble past players, or score great free kicks? Do you need creative players
in a team who can pass the ball well?
Would it be a waste of having 10 great
centre backs in the team if no one could pass the ball for the corners, free kicks
and crosses?
I would love a big country to pick
10 centre backs and a keeper in a team. And
then play against a normal team. It would be great fun to see if it would work.
Would it revolutionize football?
Israel 1 Scotland 1 - Game Played March 2021 -
World Cup 2022 Qualifier.
Scotland managed to fight back from
1-0 down at half-time, to draw one all.
The game was played in Tel Aviv.
Peretz scored first for Israel.
Ryan Fraser scored an equalizer for
Scotland.
The game was in Group F.
Both teams would have wanted to win
if they are to qualify for the World Cup.
On the same day in the same group.
Denmark beat Moldova 8-0.
While the Austria defeated the Faroe
Islands by 3 goals to one.
The game was exciting.
