WE’VE SCOT A REAL THREAT
SCOTLAND..4 KAZAKHSTAN.1
SCOT GEMMILL reckons his side’s first-half blitz was one of the best attacking displays in his tenure as Scotland’s Under-21s took a step closer to Euro 2025.
The young Scots bullied Kazakhstan in Paisley and blew them away in the first half with goals from captain Josh Doig, Dundee’s Lyall Cameron and a Tommy Conway penalty.
Lewis Fiorini added a fourth after the break before the away side grabbed a consolation.
Gemmill, who has been in charge of Scotland youth team wins against Brazil, France, Croatia and the Netherlands, said: “You could see we had a few players back who we didn’t have at the end of last year.
“You could also see the level. The first 10 minutes we didn’t have control but after that we had a lot of chances to score.
“It’s really good we can look forward to the rest of the games with confidence.
“We know we have hard games to come and I’m really pleased for the players to show they are good players. You have to beat teams like this and it’s not easy. It’s about mentality as well as talent and it was all on show.”
Scotland took the lead in the 20th minute. Kieron Bowie cut the ball back to Connor Barron who failed to catch his shot right but the ball spun wide to Doig to crack a brilliant left-foot shot into the top corner.
Four minutes later Bowie cut inside and teed up Cameron to power a low shot into the corner.
The third came in the 38th minute from the penalty spot when keeper Temerlin Anarbeko cleaned out Conway and the striker despatched the spot-kick himself.
Conway then unselfishly fed strike partner Fiorini 10 minutes after the break and he easily netted.
Kazakhstan netted a consolation from the spot when Ibane Bowat was adjudged to have fouled Danil Ankudinov and Yan Trufanov beat Ipswich keeper Cieran Slicker.