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

00:07joined by our Chief Football Director, Alan Patillo, who is at the ZTE Arena after Scotland's

00:132-0 win over Belarus in the World Cup qualifiers. Alan, sum up what you just witnessed in Hungary

00:20this evening.

00:21Alan Patillo A surreal football match, a surreal international

00:25football match, that is for certain. Not one I imagine I'll be experiencing again, possibly.

00:32And yeah, obviously echoes of the COVID era when you were watching football in an empty

00:38stadium, but still it felt very strange to watch a crucial World Cup qualifying game and

00:44just to have the shouts of, intermittent shouts of players piercing the silence and the shouts

00:50from the coaches. But apart from that, a couple of shouts from outside the ground of, come

00:54on Scotland, which was interesting, and a lull between the anthems at the start, just before

01:00the game kicked off. But yeah, a very, an odd, you know, very odd sort of experience for,

01:09oops, lights just gone off.

01:10The 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

01:26bus come 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 the four

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

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

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

02:14that's pretty good for Scotland, isn't it?

02:16It's good. I mean, I think if you'd asked, and I think you, I think you asked me last,

02:21prize 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

02:32Steve Clarke could have asked for much more. Not only that, but two clean sheets as well.

02:36So really, you know, just, just what Scotland, just what the doctor ordered really ahead of two

02:41absolute crunch games at hand in 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 for a fascinating last four games.

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

02:59locked into the ZTE arena. Thank you very much for joining us from Hungary. It finished

03:02Belarus 0, Scotland 2, and good night in the quest for World Cup 4.