Strachan’s heroes look tickled pink
SCOTS CAN MAKE SLO PROGRESS
SCOTLAND – they’re usually a Hollywood story that builds up to a real-life ending.
Whenever the Tartan Army are playing, the words glorious failure come to mind.
But you have to admire the spirit of Gordon Strachan’s battling bravehearts.
Arguably, they have done the hard bit and beaten the better of the S-sides.
Slovakia are definitely classier while Slovenia rely on dogged defence, as we saw for 93 tiresome minutes at Wembley.
The glorious failure bit of the Scottish story will probably come in the play-offs.
But the momentum is with Scotland and we can see them grabbing a vital win. They’re good value, too, at 7/4 with Hills.
As England showed, international games can be wars of attrition. But the final games of qualifying throw up two fixtures where goals tend to come much more easily. The stats for Bosnia v Belgium and Bulgaria v France shout goals - and we fancy a BTTS double with Hills.