{"id":8072,"date":"2024-12-13T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scotland-to-face-greece-and-denmark-or-portugal\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:44:58","slug":"scotland-to-face-greece-and-denmark-or-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scotland-to-face-greece-and-denmark-or-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland to face Greece and Denmark or Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scotland will face Greece and Portugal or Denmark in World Cup qualifying.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One further team is still to be drawn in Group C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The loser of Portugal and Denmark&#8217;s two-legged Nations League A quarter-final in March will be in Scotland&#8217;s group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scots last featured at a World Cup tournament in 1998 during Craig Brown&#8217;s tenure as manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team that wins Group C will progress to the 2026 finals in Canada, Mexico and the United States, with the runner-up entering the play-offs, which will feature semi-finals and finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Clarke&#8217;s Scotland reached the play-offs for the last World Cup in Qatar but were eliminated by Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8e48v38ngo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland will face Greece and Portugal or Denmark in World Cup qualifying. One further team is still to be drawn in Group C. The loser of Portugal and Denmark&#8217;s two-legged Nations League A quarter-final in March will be in Scotland&#8217;s group. The Scots last featured at a World Cup tournament in 1998 during Craig Brown&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}