Scotland vs Switzerland - prediction, team news, lineups

Scotland invited Switzerland to Hampden Park connected Tuesday nighttime for a matchday 2 clash successful League B Group 1 of the UEFA Nations League. 

The hosts are 2nd successful the array with 1 point, portion the visitors are archetypal with 3 points.

Match preview

Scotland were relegated from League A of the Nations League aft a disastrous 3-0 second-leg decision to Greece successful their relegation/promotion play-off successful 2024-25, sealing a 3-1 aggregate loss. 

Scotland did negociate to rapidly bounce backmost from that relegation by securing their spot astatine the 2026 World Cup with a superb qualifying campaign, finishing apical of Group C with 13 points from six matches. 

However, Scotland failed to support that momentum astatine the summertime tournament, narrowly beating Haiti 1-0 earlier suffering back-to-back defeats against Morocco and Brazil, with galore fans frustrated astatine the alternatively passive quality of the performances.

Steve Clarke subsequently stood down arsenic Scotland manager aft their elimination, with caller brag Sebastien Pocognoli taking complaint for the archetypal clip connected Saturday. 

The Belgian manager failed to grounds a triumph successful his archetypal match, drafting 0-0 with Slovenia, but determination were surely plentifulness of encouraging signs, including Scotland creating 4 large chances and an awesome 2.16xG. 

Now acceptable to instrumentality connected Switzerland, the toughest challengers successful Group 1, Pocognoli volition beryllium looking for a akin show paired with a objective borderline successful beforehand of goal. 

Switzerland, however, are definite to airs much of a menace than Slovenia, who managed conscionable 4 shots and 0.47xG successful the archetypal matchday. 

Switzerland were besides relegated from League A of the Nations League successful 2024-25 aft finishing bottommost of Group 4 with conscionable 2 points from six matches. 

However, Murat Yakin's broadside instantly rebounded from that disastrous campaign, winning 7 and drafting 3 of their adjacent 10 matches, including booking their spot astatine the 2026 World Cup with an unbeaten grounds and first-placed decorativeness successful Group B. 

Switzerland's good signifier continued astatine the summertime tournament, progressing from Group B with 7 points earlier beating some Algeria and Colombia successful the knockout rounds.

Switzerland's World Cup tally yet came to an extremity against Argentina successful the quarter-finals, with Yakin's broadside conceding doubly successful extra-time aft being reduced to 10-men earlier successful the crippled erstwhile Breel Embolo was controversially dismissed.

Despite the continued vexation of their elimination, Switzerland managed to instrumentality to winning ways successful their opening 2026-27 Nations League fixture, comfortably defeating North Macedonia 3-0 with a ascendant performance. 

Looking to physique connected that effect and signifier different winning streak, Yakin's squad volition beryllium aiming to lucifer Switzerland's 3-1 distant triumph implicit Scotland successful March 2006.

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Team News

A mostly awesome archetypal 90 minutes nether Pocognoli could pb the manager to sanction a mostly unchanged team, though changes successful onslaught could beryllium made aft failing to people from 2.16xG against Slovenia. 

Oli McBurnie and Robbie Ure some missed aggregate large chances, which whitethorn pb Pocognoli to bring Kieron Bowie into the starting 11, perchance alongside the existent Hull City striker.

Meanwhile, Zeki Amdouni proved a superb replacement for the suspended Embolo successful attack, scoring 2 and assisting 1 successful the 3-0 triumph against North Macedonia, and the 25-year-old should support his spot astatine the apical of the attack.

Amdouni is apt to beryllium supported by Dan Ndoye and Johan Manzambi, portion Fabian Rieder could beryllium replaced by Alvyn Sanches connected the close broadside of the attack.

Scotland imaginable starting lineup:

Gunn; Hendry, McKenna, Welsh; Hickey, Gilmour, Ferguson, Robertson; McGinn; McBurnie, Bowie

Switzerland imaginable starting lineup:

Kobel; Athekame, Elvedi, Akanji, Rodriguez; Jashari, Freuler; Sanches, Manzambi, Ndoye; Amdouni

We say: Scotland 1-3 Switzerland

Scotland volition beryllium looking to physique connected an encouraging archetypal show nether Pocognoli, but Switzerland volition caput into the crippled arsenic the favourites and should person the prime to flooded their hosts and assertion the 3 points.

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