{"id":53603,"date":"2026-05-30T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/billy-gilmour-steve-clarke-100-worried-about-scotland-midfielders-injury-pre-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:06:23","slug":"billy-gilmour-steve-clarke-100-worried-about-scotland-midfielders-injury-pre-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/billy-gilmour-steve-clarke-100-worried-about-scotland-midfielders-injury-pre-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Gilmour: Steve Clarke &#8216;100% worried&#8217; about Scotland midfielder&#8217;s injury pre-World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scotland head coach Steve Clarke is &#8220;100% worried&#8221; about Billy Gilmour after the midfielder came off injured during the 4-1 friendly win over Curacao.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Napoli player, 24, will have a scan later on Saturday and Clarke says he is &#8220;hoping and praying he&#8217;ll be on the plane&#8221; when the Scots fly to the United States on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gilmour started at Hampden but was withdrawn after pulling up with a knee issue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His replacement, Findlay Curtis, scored Scotland&#8217;s first-half leveller before Lawrence Shankland&#8217;s double after the break and a late Ryan Christie penalty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn9pwg12z0lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland head coach Steve Clarke is &#8220;100% worried&#8221; about Billy Gilmour after the midfielder came off injured during the 4-1 friendly win over Curacao. The Napoli player, 24, will have a scan later on Saturday and Clarke says he is &#8220;hoping and praying he&#8217;ll be on the plane&#8221; when the Scots fly to the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1256,9175,805,4331,2287,15343,15180,688,7955,243],"class_list":["post-53603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-billy","tag-clarke","tag-cup","tag-gilmour","tag-injury","tag-midfielders","tag-preworld","tag-scotland","tag-steve","tag-worried"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603","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=53603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53605,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions\/53605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}