Captain Andy Robertson has demanded Scotland keep their gorgeous begin to the Euro 2024 marketing campaign, warning that “six factors does not qualify you”.
Scott McTominay’s double shocked Spain at Hampden, and Scotland now sit high of their group with two wins from two after their opening win over Cyprus.
They journey to Norway, then host Georgia, subsequent realizing that extra factors may set them up for a top-two end.
“We have two huge video games in June,” Robertson mentioned.
“If we come out of these video games with the factors we expect we want, it’s going to put us in a implausible place.”
The 29-year-old Liverpool full-back emphasised the idea throughout the group, and hailed their degree of efficiency towards a Spain facet that had not misplaced a European qualifier since 2014.
“We knew we needed to attempt to get off to a superb begin, put them below strain, get the followers with us – and I feel we did a very good job of that,” Robertson mentioned, talking on Viaplay.
“Once you rating so early, you sort of fall again a bit, and we have been defending too deep on the finish of that first half. However I believed the second half was a very skilled efficiency and reveals how far we have come.
“The gaffer and his workforce set us up so effectively tonight, we knew we had the sport plan and will trigger them issues.
“We had perception. When the gaffer took over that was what was missing. There was a disconnect between gamers and followers. Enjoying in entrance of a full crowd makes a large distinction, however you have to again it up with performances.”
Clarke himself isn’t one to get too carried away, and he too was fast to emphasize that the job is way from performed.
“It is a huge evening, it looks like a step ahead, however it’s solely six factors and you do not qualify with six factors,” he mentioned.
“I will have a few quiet days to settle down, after which we begin getting ready for 2 huge video games, as a result of June may very well be a pivotal month for us.”
The 59-year-old, who has led the nationwide workforce since 2019, did enable his workforce some reward on an evening the place they outfought, and at instances outplayed, Spain.
“I believed the gamers have been excellent from first minute to final,” Clarke added.
“We did not have an terrible lot of possession, however what we did have, we used very, very effectively. Once you have a look at the pictures on aim, pictures on course – it is nearly equal. It means we utilised the ball very effectively after we had it.”
