Next up for Scotland: Georgia at Hampden on Tuesday night. I’ll leave you with Jamie Jackson’s match report. Thanks for your company and emails – goodnight.
The captain Andy Robertson, who was superb at both ends of the pitch, speaks
We’ve got a really excited changing room. It’s the hottest conditions we’ve played in for a long time – the heat was incredible – so we knew our bench would come into play. The lads who came on did so well.
We went into camp last week. It was tough work to be fair! Boys finished at different times of the season, so it was trying to get the balance right between fitness and freshness. Then we got the weekend off, came back this week and we’ve just been preparing for this game. I think we prepared pretty perfectly.
The big thing is that we didn’t panic when we went 1-0 down. They probably dropped off a bit which played to our advantage. We started getting on the ball. We brought on wee Billy [Gilmour], who’s been magnificent in the last 6-8 weeks for Brighton. In training he’s been so good this week, and then he brought it on the pitch. Kenny comes on and scores such a vital goal. That’s what it’s so important we’ve got the whole squad.
When we scored one, I just had a feeling we might get another one. It happened so quick. The team spirit is second to none, it’s so good. To create that in international football is quite unique, but we’ve got it. We always socialise, we always try and do things together as a country, and I think you can see that on the field.
We’ve got a massive country. We couldn’t have started this campaign much better, but we have to use it to our advantage. We have to qualify now.
