Scotland fans arrive in the Faroe Islands ahead of huge World Cup qualifier
SCOTLAND fans have arrived in the Faroe Islands ahead of another crunch World Cup qualifier.
The Tartan Army travel with the buzz of Saturday night’s win still continuing.
Scott McTominay’s 95th minute winner against Israel has the national side in second spot with a nice four-point cushion to third place.
A win against the Faroes – 69 places below them in the rankings – would put Steve Clarke’s side within touching distance of a play-off spot for next year’s World Cup.
Such a potentially big win would normally have the travelling Scots support flying out in their numbers.
However, just 468 away tickets have been sold for the game in the Torsvollur stadium in Torshavn.
But the party has continued nevertheless with SunSport getting exclusive snaps of the travelling supporters.
They were – quite rightly – in fine spirits in the sunshine this afternoon after a long trip - though it isn't quite as warm as it looks.
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One of the shortest routes being a six-hour flight from Edinburgh, with others to Amsterdam, then onto Copenhagen before a flight into Torshavn from there.
Wins away to the Faroes and Moldova next will guarantee second spot for Scotland, regardless of what happens elsewhere.
The ten group runners-up are joined by the best two group winners of the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League overall ranking that have neither qualified directly as group winners or finished runners-up in their section.
The 12 teams are drawn into three play-off paths.
The countries will play one-off semi-finals and a final with the three path winners qualifying for the World Cup finals in Qatar.
The six best runners-up from the European qualifiers groups will be seeded for the draw and play their semi-final at HOME with the other six unseeded.
To determine the six best second-placed countries, the results of group runners-up against teams in sixth place are discarded.
As it stands after matchday seven, Scotland are among the six countries who will be SEEDED for next March’s play-offs, alongside Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and Albania.
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The opponents will come from Czech Republic, Ukraine, Norway and North Macedonia as well as Wales and Austria from the Nations League - though that could obviously change.
Wales and Austria would qualify as best 2021 Nations League group winners who have finished outside the top two of their qualifying group - though the Welsh could still finish second in Group E.
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If they do, the Czech Republic - currently above Wales in their qualifying group - would be the next highest Nations League group winner.
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