{"id":476,"date":"2026-05-30T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=476"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:31:19","slug":"international-friendly-live-scotland-vs-curacao-score-report-clips-text-updates-reaction-match-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"International Friendly LIVE: Scotland vs Curacao: score, report, clips, text updates, reaction &#038; match stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Two goals from Lawrence Shankland ensured Scotland&#8217;s big Hampden send-off before heading to the World Cup ended in victory over 10-man Curacao.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the week his summer move from Hearts to Rangers was confirmed, Shankland&#8217;s double secured the Scots a first home friendly win in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tahith Chong had given the visitors a shock lead with a terrific goal before Curacao were reduced to 10 men after striker Jurgen Locadia caught Aaron Hickey with a stray forearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finlay Curtis, introduced moments earlier for the injured Billy Gilmour, grabbed an equaliser just before half-time with his first international goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tyler Fletcher &#8211; son of former Manchester United and Scotland midfielder Darren &#8211; came on for his debut after the break, and Shankland struck twice to advance his case for a starting berth at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan Christie scored from the penalty spot late on to wrap up the win after Curtis was brought down in the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scotland squad fly to the United States on Sunday before their final friendly match against Bolivia in New Jersey on Sunday, 7 June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They face Haiti in their World Cup opener in Boston a week later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two goals from Lawrence Shankland ensured Scotland&#8217;s big Hampden send-off before heading to the World Cup ended in victory over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}