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The top two in Group A of the Euro 2024 qualifying stage meet in Seville on Thursday, in what promises to be a mouth-watering occasion. Spain take on Scotland<\/a>, with both sides closing in on qualification for next summer\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n Scotland were victorious in the first meeting between the two sides. A brace from Manchester United\u2019s Scott McTominay was the difference between the two teams, but as he told the media ahead of Thursday\u2019s match (via Diario AS<\/a>), Scotland head coach Steve Clarke expects things to be very different in Seville.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that we have a tough match against the favourite team of the group. I think the game will be very different to March, they will have more confidence \u2013 they have won the Nations League since then, which is a big achievement.<\/p>\n \u201cIn March they came from the disappointment of falling in the World Cup and had changed managers, so obviously they would have to take time to adjust to new ideas, and they were in transition time. The circumstances are very different now.\u201d<\/p>\n Scotland only need a point from Thursday\u2019s match to all-but secure qualification for Euro 2024, and Clarke is confident that his side can attain a positive result, despite the odds being stacked against them.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to play the best we can. If we manage to give our best version, we can get a good result. Every day we try to be as competitive as possible against the big teams, but I don\u2019t treat this game differently from others. We don\u2019t just come to defend, we want to be effective with the ball and attack as much as possible.\u00a0We must play our game.\u201d<\/p>\n The meeting sees two of Europe\u2019s most in-form national teams, so it promises to an exciting occasion. Spain<\/a> will fancy their chances of revenge, but Scotland \u2013 as they have already shown \u2013 will be no pushovers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Scotland head coach recognises Spain team is “very different” from previous encounter<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The top two in Group A of the Euro 2024 qualifying stage meet in Seville on Thursday, in what promises to be a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alanchamberlain.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}