{"id":5032,"date":"2026-06-23T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:45:14","slug":"world-cup-2026-why-scotland-cant-play-for-draw-or-narrow-defeat-against-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5032","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Why Scotland can&#8217;t play for draw or narrow defeat against Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of them was the Czech Republic game, the 4-6-0 (in 2010), where a draw would have been a really good result. The game wasn&#8217;t great and neither team threatened, but we lost the goal to a set-piece. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So you can plan all you want to play for a certain outcome, but football is so random that you&#8217;re not guaranteed to get that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Levein believes Clarke&#8217;s demeanour and approach to training, the gameplan and team selection will be more influential in the players&#8217; mindset than outside talk of only needing a point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inclusion of winger Ben Gannon-Doak, for example, may send a message Scotland are going to be more aggressive going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You get a feel as a manager where the players are,&#8221; Levein said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re looking at it and you&#8217;re thinking: maybe if we just put another attacking player on, it gives everybody the idea that it&#8217;s time to take the shackles off and have a go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of them was the Czech Republic game, the 4-6-0 (in 2010), where a draw would have been a really&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","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\/5032","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=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}