{"id":16238,"date":"2024-11-04T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/familiar-faces-back-for-scotland-in-nations-league\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:55:15","slug":"familiar-faces-back-for-scotland-in-nations-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/familiar-faces-back-for-scotland-in-nations-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar faces back for Scotland in Nations League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scotland welcome back a host of regulars, including vice-captain John McGinn, for Nations League matches against Croatia and Poland.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott McKenna, Jack Hendry, Greg Taylor, Lawrence Shankland and Tommy Conway also return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a first selection for Ipswich Town goalkeeper Cieran Slicker, who has 17 caps at under-21 level, and uncapped Rangers midfielder Connor Barron retains his place after a late call up for the 0-0 draw at home to Portugal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Che Adams is included despite limping out of Torino&#8217;s defeat by Fiorentina on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croatia visit Hampden on 15 November, with the campaign ending in Warsaw three days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland prop up Group A1 with one point from four matches, three behind Poland who won 3-2 in Glasgow in the the opening round of games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croatia beat Scotland 2-1 in Zagreb last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Forrest drops out, along with Liam Lindsay, Andy Irving, Jon McCracken and Jack MacKenzie, who was another late call for the October matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kieran Tierney, Aaron Hickey, Angus Gunn and Kevin Nisbet are currently out with injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis Ferguson is not included, having only just returned to the Bologna first team after a six-month lay-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The same applies for Nathan Patterson, who is back in the Everton squad but yet to feature this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvg7dmn347eo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland welcome back a host of regulars, including vice-captain John McGinn, for Nations League matches against Croatia and Poland. Scott McKenna, Jack Hendry, Greg Taylor, Lawrence Shankland and Tommy Conway also return. There is a first selection for Ipswich Town goalkeeper Cieran Slicker, who has 17 caps at under-21 level, and uncapped Rangers midfielder Connor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[616,6567,206,1063,688],"class_list":["post-16238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-faces","tag-familiar","tag-league","tag-nations","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16240,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238\/revisions\/16240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}