SORRY STATE
Scotland sinner Ryan Porteous owes Germany star Ilkay Gundogan an APOLOGY over horror tackle, insists BBC pundit
But he reckons the match was ALREADY gone even with eleven men
PAT NEVIN says red card sinner Ryan Porteous owes Ilkay Gundogan an APOLOGY for the horror challenge on Friday night.
Scotland stopper Porteous was sent-off for a lunge on Germany’s captain before half-time in the 5-1 defeat to the hosts.
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Ex-Scotland winger Nevin - who covered the Euro 2024 opener for the BBC - said: “Ryan will be disappointed because he let himself down.
“It was a horrifying tackle. Hopefully I’m fair-minded enough that, when I saw the replay, I wanted him sent off.
“I don’t want to see a tackle like that happen to anyone. The first thing he should do is apologise to Gundogan.
“The red mist comes down and he does it out of desperation, but you can’t do that. Your team-mates are knackered now after chasing shadows.
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“It’s a big error, but did it make a huge difference? Probably not.
“I mean, you get one sent off, but it was done before that. It was already looking like four, five or six.”
Porteous is now banned for Wednesday night’s Group A clash with Switzerland in Cologne.
But Nevin, who starred at Euro 92 for Scotland, wants another change and a recall from the start for Billy Gilmour.
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He added: “Steve will be sensible but serious about what happened on Friday night.
“He obviously knows these things better than I do, but I’d like to have had wee Gilmour in there.
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“These tournaments, it’s about keeping the ball, because if you give it away, you don’t get it back for five minutes, you end up chasing shadows.
“When you play top technical teams, the one thing you must do is hold the ball. He’s our best.
“Steve will go through every aspect of the game. Although I don’t think he’ll go through every technical mistake and bad pass, that’s not the problem.
“We had a game plan that really, really, really didn’t work. So, when that’s happening, you think ‘right, let’s look at this’.
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“We ended up playing a 5-4-1 and it didn’t work for us. You can’t allow that to happen against the Swiss - and I don’t think Steve will. He’ll be thinking ‘how do I change it?’.
“It’s not about what’s happened. It’s about what’s now going to happen.
“The Germans were a lot more up for it, confident. Toni Kroos was superb, their two wide players were exceptional.
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“They saw where our weaknesses were and they went at them.”
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