The Scotsman Football Show - Belarus 0-2 Scotland debrief - video Dailymotion

Alan Pattullo in Zalaegerszeg joins Mark Atkinson to discuss a big win for Scotland in their quest to reach the World Cup.

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00:00Hello and good evening, it's the Scotsman Football Show, Mark Hackerton, Sports Editor,

00:07joined by our Chiefs Leader Alan Potillo, who is at the ZTE Arena after Scotland's 2-0

00:13win over Belarus in the World Cup qualifiers. Alan, sum up what you just witnessed in Hungary

00:20this evening.

00:23A surreal football match, a surreal international football match, that is for certain. Not one

00:28I imagine I'll be experiencing again, possibly. Obviously, echoes of the COVID era when you

00:36were watching football in an empty stadium, but still it felt very strange to watch a

00:41crucial World Cup qualifying game and just to have the shouts of, intermittent shouts of

00:46players piercing the silence and the shouts from the coaches. But apart from that, a couple

00:53of shouts from outside the ground of, come on Scotland, which was interesting and a lull

00:58between the anthems at the start, just before the game kicked off. But, yeah, a very, an

01:04odd, you know, a very odd sort of experience for, oops, lights just gone off.

01:12The lights have just gone off. Unbelievable. Yeah, you know, some aspects of the game were

01:19challenging given the context. The fact that even watching the team bus, Scotland team bus,

01:26come into the, before the game, you know, just see this little clump of Scotland fans

01:31sort of cheering them, cheering them as they, as they, as they wheeled into the car park.

01:36It was, it was all very surreal and that you just, you did wonder whether Scotland could,

01:40you know, could manufacture the right amount of sort of motivation to get what they needed

01:45here, which was obviously three points. But they did. 2-0, a solid start, as Steve Clarke's

01:51just described it downstairs. I had to rush down and do the press conference and before

01:57coming up here and, yeah, feeling a bit alone and in the dark.

02:03Yes, it's quite an eerie end to what's been a very eerie kind of atmosphere for Scotland.

02:09Just very quickly, Alan, before you get locked into the stadium, four points from six in these

02:13two matches, that's pretty good for Scotland, isn't it?

02:15It's good. I mean, I think if you'd asked, and I, I think you, I think you asked me last,

02:21prior to coming out to Denmark, what would be a good return for Scotland? And I said four points,

02:26I thought six points might be stretching it, but four points, very promising start. I don't think

02:31Steve Clarke could have asked for much more. Not only that, but two clean sheets as well. So really,

02:37you know, just, just what Scotland, just what the doctor ordered really ahead of two absolute

02:41crunch games at Hamden next month against Greece and a return match against Belarus,

02:46obviously, with the Greeks having lost surprisingly three nil against Denmark tonight. So yeah,

02:52set up, fascinating, fascinating last four games.

02:56Yep. Can't wait for the next moment, Alan. I'm going to let you crack on before you get locked

03:00into the ZTE arena. Thank you very much for joining us from Hungary. It finished Belarus nil,

03:03Scotland 2, a good night in the quest for World Cup 4.