{"id":5088,"date":"2026-06-23T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:05:10","slug":"scotland-v-brazil-what-are-steve-clarkes-big-world-cup-calls-and-who-would-you-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5088","title":{"rendered":"Scotland v Brazil: What are Steve Clarke&#8217;s big World Cup calls and who would you pick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Che Adams has started up front in both games but has managed only three touches in the opposition box. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clearly, that is not all down to the Torino striker, as service has been limited &#8211; plus he was involved in Scotland&#8217;s solitary goal against Haiti and might have forced a red card against Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Adams can play on the last line, which is important if you&#8217;re trying to turn the ball over and you&#8217;re trying to hit the space quickly,&#8221; Halliday said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just don&#8217;t think Lyndon Dykes has got the the pace anymore to play on that last line and to get on the end of things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Brazil are set to dominate possession and Scotland are forced to clear the ball long, is Dykes&#8217; aerial presence more attractive? He won one of his four aerial duels when replacing Adams, who won none from three, against Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The way Clarke will look at it is, if you are under pressure and you have to clear long at times, you get more chance of recovering a second ball if it&#8217;s going up to Dykes because he&#8217;s got that spring and he&#8217;s decent in the air,&#8221; Allan said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Che Adams has started up front in both games but has managed only three touches in the opposition box. Clearly,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5088","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\/5088","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=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}