Scotland current football simply amazing!

[HL]

Those forumites who love football will be aware that Scotland got beaten 2 nil by World cup Champs Italy today. Not much of a surprise...

BUT:

My point is that Scotland appear to have the drive, pretty good coaching andextremely strong desire. This country currently rank #20 (I think) in the FIFA rankings. Their progress is no fluke. The foootball lovers on this forum will tell you that Scotland have beaten top team like France-- to gain their current standing.

Articles written about the Scottish squad do not use terms like 'individual skill', skillful, maestro, talented, star balla...

And by the way, fan support for this team is always strong.

[Mosiah]

RE: Scotland current football simply amazing!

"Miller miss

Though Scotland began poorly, they recovered well after falling behind albeit without creating any clear-cut chances. Lee McCulloch fired a half-volley straight at Buffon and on the stroke of half-time, lone striker Kenny Miller narrowly failed to make a clean connection with a far-post header from Gary Naysmith's cross.



Di Natale denied

If Scotland went into the interval with cause for optimism, they were up against it once the action resumed. In the 49th minute Mauro Camoranesi sent Antonio Di Natale clean through down the inside-left channel but Craig Gordon made a fine one-handed save. Two minutes later Di Natale raced through again and the impressive Gordon denied him once more, this time sticking out his left foot to turn the ball away.



Blue wave

A blue wave kept rolling towards the Scotland goal, Toni nodding past the far post then driving a shot straight at Gordon. Finally, on 70 minutes, the ACF Fiorentina forward struck again, getting on the end of Camoranesi's right-wing cross with a header down and into the back of the net for his 12th international goal. Toni's double means Italy can look ahead to their June visits to Faroe Islands and Lithuania with renewed optimism, while the Faroes is also the next stop for Scotland, on 6 June."



That doesn't sound like they were playing anything at all! "A blue wave kept rolling towards the Scotland goal,..."



What's the point of playing so well, as you say, yet they still lose?