The Kieran Tierney Scotland factor slammed as Kris Commons rages against one-man team claim
dailyrecord.co.ukKris Commons has questioned why Scotland look a shadow of the side they were before losing Kieran Tierney to injury. And the former Celtic star can’t understand why Steve Clarke is rigidly sticking with the formation devised to get both Tierney and Andy Robertson in the team when that’s not an issue right now.
Clarke arguably oversaw the nadir of his reign at the weekend as Scotland were battered 3-0 by Ireland in Dublin. Their opposition hadn’t won in 12 Nations League games and had last won a competitive game at home against Gibraltar in 2019.
But they made Scotland look like the side in the doldrums and could have won by more. Commons reckons Clarke got just about everything wrong, but most worrying was how long he took to change things when it was clear the initial game plan had to go out the window long before it was ditched.He wrote in his Daily Mail column: “You could see it coming.
Not, perhaps, in the build-up to the match but certainly in the early exchanges as it took shape.“Everything about Scotland in Dublin was flawed from the off.
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