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The anthems ahead of Scotland's last match of 2013. The Tartan Army are | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
in Molde following Gordon Strachan and company. Norway versus Scotland | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
coming up. Norway against Scotland is live on | :00:31. | :01:38. | |
the BBC. Commentary coming from Billy Dodds and Liam McLeod. | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
A year of transition for Scotland ends. The curtain comes down on act | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
one for the new coach. Gordon Strachan looking at a 4-4-3-2-1 | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
formation. Pedersen is back to cover injuries. The former Blackburn man | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
scored twice the last time the Scots were in this country in 2009. The | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
keeper is getting his first cap tonight. The front two have just | :02:22. | :02:22. | |
eight between them. It is 4-2-3-1 again for Scotland. | :02:23. | :02:45. | |
There is a first skater for Craig -- start for Craig Bryson. Anya is back | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
in on the left for his fourth cap. Steven Naismith replaces Stephen | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
Fletcher up front. Stephen Fletcher back with Sunderland. Gordon | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Strachan felt he had seen enough of the main striker for the national | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
team just now. The officials didn't have to travel too far. They are | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
from Sweden. 36-year-old Martin Strombergsson is the referee and he | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
has been in charge of top flight games in Sweden for four years. | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
There has been some serious lights coming through the national team in | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
recent times and they want to end Gordon Strachan's first year on a | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
high note. And they're taking on a know wee January -- Norwegian side | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
about a year behind the Scots in form and ability. They flopped badly | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
in their World Cup Qualifier if Iing Qualifier if Iing group. They | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
feignished fourth -- finished fourth. They were just a point | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
better off than lowly Albania were the Norwegians. A Scotland win | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
tonight would see them win back-to-back away games for the | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
first time in six years. They have beaten Macedonia and Croatia away | :04:19. | :04:31. | |
before the low-key 0-0 draw with the United States at the weekend. How do | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
the Scots approach this game, Billy Dodds? Well full of confidence, but | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
it is a difficult pitch. Just looking for another decent | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
performance. We have got the momentum and that should see is | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
through nicely to the draw for the European Championships in Nice in | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
February. We thought Snodgrass may tock in behind, but it is Bryson. | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
Snodgrass is out on the right. Scandinavia in mid-November, there | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
is much to look forward to before February's euro draw something to | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
anticipate. The snow has been falling heavily | :05:20. | :05:33. | |
today. Just a few hours ago it was a white sheet out there. There was a | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
first touch for Forren who plays his club football here. | :05:44. | :06:06. | |
Pedersen the first experienced player in the Norwegian line up. | :06:07. | :06:22. | |
Steady defending from Whittaker. Some expected Lee Wallace to start | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
tonight. Gordon Greer had a comfortable night | :06:29. | :06:49. | |
against the United States. Yes a couple of scary moments. But he is | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
on the left tonight and he played on the right the other night. So it is | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
another test for him. Two strikers, Gordon Greer and Russell Martin have | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
to contend with tonight. Just the second time there has been an | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
international here in Molde. The first was back in May 1998, Norway | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
beat Saudi Arabia 6-0 in a friendly match ahead of the World Cup in | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
France. They were of course in Scotland's group. | :07:23. | :07:54. | |
Norway were beaten in Denmark when Scotland were playing the United | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
States. They lost 2-1. Both goals they conceded came from crosses, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
headers. Because we only have the lone | :08:07. | :08:43. | |
striker, they can push their full backs forward. Hogly on the left and | :08:44. | :09:02. | |
the other one. A reasonable ball in there for Marcus Pedersen. He got | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
the goal on Friday in Denmark. He is on loan at Barnsley from Arnhem. | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
David Marshall earning his tenth cap tonight. What will the conditions be | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
like. The snow was falling for most of the morning. It will be a slick | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
surface, maybe some bobbling with the snow. But it could be | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
energy-sapping, there could be some tired legs at the end of this one. | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
That was a foul by Forren on Naismith. Talk about the good job | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Anya has done, but Martin has done well at the back with Grant Hanley. | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
He isn't playing. But Steven Naismith has been a revelation - as | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Anya goes for goal! He had the right to do so as well. Almost | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
capitalising on a Norwegian error. There was no real pressure and | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Naismith closed him down. It was a shocking clearance. Anya, all he | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
needed was the right connection and direction and the ball is in the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
net. But he took it out wide. It ended up going for a throw in | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
actually. That cross took an awkward touch and | :10:33. | :10:50. | |
Greer did well just to get rid of it. | :10:51. | :11:23. | |
Marshall quickly off his line and he had to be because Marcus Pedersen | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
was slipped through there. I thought he had the better of Martin. A good | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
ball through. To Skjelbred. Pedersen is getting there before Martin and | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Marshall has to react quickly. The wide men come into the pitch and it | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
lets the full backs get up the pitch and it is causing us a problem so | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
far. Skjelbred has drifted into the central area. He is main lay | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
right-hand sided midfielder, the Hertha Berlin man. That was lax from | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
Brown, but Kamara was left frustrated as the back door was shut | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
by Martin. Cut out at source. That was the | :12:18. | :12:52. | |
right back, all the way up at the corner flag. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
A good take. Marshall breathes a sigh of relief. Pedersen with | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
another chance and the keeper managed to get something on it. It | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
wasn't convincing. Norway have started brighter there is no doubt | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
about it. Marshall has collided with Pedersen | :13:15. | :13:31. | |
there. There was a couple of awkward balls in for Marshall to deal with | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
in these early stages. They get it in. The header comes out from Greer | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
and they don't defend it properly. Kamara gets the header on target. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Not great defending and we're allowing too many crosses to come | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
into the box. Pedersen earning his 76th cap. Kamara should be in good | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
spirit, his team have just won the Norwegian league title. | :14:13. | :14:43. | |
Martin finds Naismith, tried to lock it in to the path of Bryson, who we | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
have not seen on the ball yet. A big night for him. He has been in | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
terrific form. There are options to the right of | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
Naismith. Bryson took the middle. Marshall grabs and for the second | :15:04. | :15:37. | |
time. -- grabs on. Great strike through the legs. Do you think we | :15:38. | :15:50. | |
have kept the ball that well so far? We have not defended so well. | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
The Swedish referee is having none of it. | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
Kamara is on the ball. Pedersen, wonderful cross. The first ball in | :16:11. | :16:23. | |
the channel for Kamara. Get a touch on, it ends up in a net. | :16:24. | :16:37. | |
Lucky for us, Pedersen misses it completely. | :16:38. | :16:55. | |
They have settled well, the Norwegians. | :16:56. | :17:16. | |
I do not think we have got grips in that midfield. Whittaker is up high | :17:17. | :17:28. | |
rooftop -- is up high. We give it away again. | :17:29. | :17:44. | |
Norway are under new management. The new manager came in in September. | :17:45. | :18:09. | |
The results did not get that much better. This is a long-term budget | :18:10. | :18:10. | |
for him. -- project. Perhaps not the right option in the | :18:11. | :18:45. | |
and. Bryson just gets rid of it. Not going forward defensively. Hogli is | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
in behind him. He is off and running. The coach looks quite happy | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
with the way things are going already. | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
The former Blackburn man. That is Jenssen. | :19:10. | :19:22. | |
He looks more comfortable. His first clean sheet, for this country, David | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
Marshall. Tom Hogli again. He is in behind | :19:34. | :20:23. | |
Snodgrass here. Cannot quite pull it back as he would like, but it is | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
still alive for the inner regions. Marshall takes command of the | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
situation. -- the Norwegians. Hogli and Pedersen are causing all kinds | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
of problems out there. I think they were both struggling out there a | :20:42. | :20:53. | |
little bit. Not quite getting to grips when they have to change, and | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
who takes Houma. The Norwegians just get forward and are crossing it | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
well. Just coming up to the 17th minute. Going to plan so far. Here | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
comes Hogli from left back again. Alan Hutton, the most capped player | :21:18. | :21:44. | |
in the Scotland team tonight. This is cap number 58 for him. | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
Elabdellaoui, formerly of Manchester City. Elabdellaoui again. Naismith | :21:54. | :22:05. | |
has struggled to see the ball in the opening 18 minutes or so. | :22:06. | :22:20. | |
We were speaking to the Scottish national coach and his management | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
team before kick-off, and it did appear that when they have the ball, | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
they can turn the formation quite quickly, with Snodgrass on the right | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
and Anya on the left, and Bryson supporting Naismith through the | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
middle. The flag goes up and Anya. I did not see him on Friday night. He | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
was suffering a little injury and was resting. He was not offside, | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
Anya was a bit unlucky. Tom Hogli. It has been a good ten months for | :22:58. | :23:36. | |
Gordon Strachan. Started slowly. There were the games against Wales | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
and Serbia in March, and two defeats that ruled Scotland out of the World | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
Cup next summer. They lost at Wembley to a very fine | :23:43. | :24:02. | |
Belgian team in September. It has been mainly positives throughout his | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
short tenure so far. Wonderful. As he got the ball to | :24:06. | :24:48. | |
match? He does not. -- has he got the ball. He just darted in between | :24:49. | :25:00. | |
the two Scotland players. Anya has been switching off and behind them. | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
We have to start matching up in those areas. This was the ball. That | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
was the running mate as well. A lovely pass, wasn't it? -- that was | :25:18. | :25:34. | |
the run made. Elabdellaoui plays in Germany. He did play for Manchester | :25:35. | :25:35. | |
City. Naismith was left by Snodgrass. They | :25:36. | :26:07. | |
are asking a lot of Steven Whittaker. A quarter of the game, | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
and gone, and Scotland cannot really string three or four passes | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
together. They looked as though they could eat getting to a period where | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
they managed to do that, get a bit more comfortable possession, but it | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
has not happened yet. We have to certainly keep the ball, because we | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
are playing this formation. They have been threatening so far in the | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
match, but that is what we have to do. When we get it, we have to get | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
people to keep the ball. We have not done that yet, because as soon as we | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
have got it, we have given the ball straight back. Scott Brown says his | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
strap is to type. Scott Fox is the substitution | :26:59. | :27:11. | |
goalkeeper. James McArthur, Christophe Berra. Conway had that | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
great start against the US. Steve Armstrong -- Stuart Armstrong is | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
another latecomer to this match. Fired long I Vegard Forren. -- long | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
by. Skjelbred. He is asking the question, what else | :27:37. | :27:47. | |
could I have done with it? That was snuffed out by Eikrem. | :27:48. | :28:54. | |
Snodgrass finds Whittaker. The two Norwich man. Russell Martin, there | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
he is. Naismith appears to have fouled | :29:01. | :29:29. | |
Jenssen there. Scotland have not really played yet, but we have | :29:30. | :29:31. | |
already seen more zip and paste about the game than we saw at | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
Hampden Park on Friday. It is because we have had to be solid for | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
top it has all been defensive so far. Pressure has put us on the back | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
foot. I think we have had to be a bit brighter, a little bit more fast | :29:49. | :30:02. | |
paced. The tempo has to go up. Morten Gamst Pedersen Hogly fouled | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
by Bryson. Eikrem is over this free kick for | :30:07. | :30:24. | |
Norway. Scotland have got everyone back to defend. | :30:25. | :30:33. | |
Forren challenging with Brown. Prevents the corner. Norway happy | :30:34. | :30:46. | |
with the throw. Forren has gone down in the challenge with Brown. Well we | :30:47. | :30:58. | |
have seen that flick out before haven't we? Champions League duty. | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
Not saying he should have been sent off, but pet last night -- petulant | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
you have to say. He takes a chance every time he does it. It has cost | :31:09. | :31:19. | |
him his place in the Celtic team against AC Milan a week tonight. | :31:20. | :31:54. | |
Snodgrass losing that dual with Eikrem again. It is a corner this | :31:55. | :32:03. | |
time. They're really at it, the Norwegians, putting us under | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
pressure. Snodgrass has been caught a couple of times. I think it was | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
Pedersen that read the situation, was it it? | :32:17. | :32:32. | |
A good header down by Reginiussen. That was just tossed in by ehas been | :32:33. | :32:57. | |
Del lieuy. -- a couple of hundred Scotland fans have made the trip | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
over. They haven't been spending as much | :33:02. | :33:11. | |
time outdoors as they normally do on their travels! | :33:12. | :33:29. | |
Anya wins the header and Naismith commits the foul. That was | :33:30. | :33:38. | |
frustration as well from the Everton man. Anya does well when that ball's | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
on the right hand side. You always want your opposite wide man in the | :33:44. | :33:53. | |
box. The ball in again and again there was a freeby for Pedersen. He | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
is a striker and he gets himself between Martin and Greer. Again it | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
is a good ball in. He shouldn't be in between the two centre halves. A | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
better header will punish us. They have been bright haven't they? | :34:12. | :34:13. | |
Norway. You see what they're doing, I know | :34:14. | :34:21. | |
it's only a friendly, you wonder how they did struggle in their group. | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
Yes they were only a point better off than Scotland were in their | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
group. They were behind Slovenia, who finished third. | :34:32. | :34:44. | |
Morten Gamst Pedersen was prowling. That is hogly back in. They keep | :34:45. | :34:52. | |
knocking on the door. He has been a real find hasn't he, | :34:53. | :35:27. | |
Anya? Yes, excellent so far. You see so far to have the confidence to | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
take that touch in the box. We have seen Snodgrass take a couple and he | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
has lost possession. But going forward the matches he has played | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
for Scotland have been excellent so far. That goal he scored was the | :35:40. | :35:48. | |
standout. They will be concerned that they | :35:49. | :36:06. | |
haven't tested the novice goalkeeper, Nyland. He has been a | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
spectator really. Both here and Forren the left centre half play | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
their club foot pal in Molde, who are managed by the Manchester United | :36:19. | :36:43. | |
legend d. That is Solskjaer. I think we have matched up, we will see if | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
Snodgrass does go to the right, but Bryson looks as if he is playing | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
there now. We have flatten odd out -- flattened out the midfield. It | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
looked as if we had switched it there for a moment. Norway are | :36:59. | :37:06. | |
almost a front four when they're attacking and they have got the full | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
backs in support of that. We never had the experience on the | :37:10. | :37:43. | |
pitch to just gauge when full backs are coming, when our full back takes | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
their wide midfielder and when our midfielder takes the wide | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
midfielder. We weren't communicating quickly enough and their system | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
certainly had the better of us. So sit simplifies it for us, man for | :38:01. | :38:09. | |
man about the pitch. Anya was fouled by the deferned. -- defender. | :38:10. | :38:46. | |
Naismith is asking the referee why there wasn't a free kick a moment | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
ago when he was challenged in the air. The referee is still having a | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
go at Naismith. That one is a foul. That was Forren. | :38:59. | :39:13. | |
Just wondering if back in the studio they might have a look at that | :39:14. | :39:20. | |
change and why we did it. An opportunity for the Scots in what | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
has been a testing night in Scandinavia so far for them. | :39:24. | :39:38. | |
Straight through to Nyland. He finally sees the ball! | :39:39. | :39:47. | |
We know Charlie Adam has got better delivery than he produced there. | :39:48. | :40:05. | |
A definite free kick. He was caught late. Pedersen on Brown. | :40:06. | :40:23. | |
That was a bad touch by Brown, but he managed to bail himself out. | :40:24. | :40:35. | |
Marcus Pedersen can't believe the decision has gone against him there. | :40:36. | :40:48. | |
It is a fair old lunge. That is a couple from the Norway striker in | :40:49. | :40:50. | |
the last couple of minutes. Whittaker can't get it past Eikrem. | :40:51. | :41:16. | |
Just breaking down in the final third time and again for Scotland | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
tonight. The couple of touches from | :41:21. | :41:50. | |
Elabdellaoui that we have seen suggest that he can make a mark at | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
Manchester City. It is his third loan spell now in Germany. Forren | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
was taken down on the edge of the D there. Pedersen scoops is it over | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
with the help of a deflection which has led to a Norway corner. That was | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
a decent block in the end, but it was too easy again. Fed into him, | :42:15. | :42:22. | |
takes a touch, holds the player off and gets a quick strike. He has not | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
got himself a goal yet, but he looks sharp. | :42:28. | :43:27. | |
Brown's challenge and the referee is not interested in Norwegian appeals | :43:28. | :43:37. | |
that time. A foul by Forren on Naismith. It keeps the pressure off | :43:38. | :43:40. | |
again. Is this the kind of game Gordon | :43:41. | :43:51. | |
Strachan would have expected tonight? I think so. Just the way | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
the Norwegians have gone about it, quite an attacking formation, going | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
to put us on that back foot as I was saying. Quick tempo to the game as | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
well. It has been mostly defensive from us so far, but we have had to | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
defend and we have defended OK. The bonus so far is that we haven't lost | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
a goal. Scoring has not been too much of an | :44:16. | :44:35. | |
issue for them. There have not been many teams that have been able to | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
shut out Scotland in the USA. Only the USA and Serbia amongst others. | :44:42. | :44:57. | |
Just five blanks and 25 matches. -- in 25 matches. | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
An exchange between Hutton and Pedersen. I am sure it was all | :45:04. | :45:09. | |
pleasant. Still at it. I just wonder if there | :45:10. | :45:26. | |
has been anything previous between those two before. Hutton is very | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
much out of club level. He has not played for Aston Villa since May of | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
2012. He played for his old team spurs on that occasion. He had a | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
long spell in Spain on his last campaign. He is out of the picture | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
at Villa Park. His only appearances this season have come in the | :45:51. | :45:59. | |
Scotland shirt. He is a player that Gordon Strachan likes. | :46:00. | :46:13. | |
I think changing the formation is stopping our way from doing what | :46:14. | :46:22. | |
they were doing for the last ten minutes. It was comfortable for | :46:23. | :46:31. | |
Scotland, but it wasn't the case at the start of the match. | :46:32. | :46:47. | |
Beaten to it there by Marcus Pederson, and cleared by Martin. | :46:48. | :46:59. | |
Skjelbred to Elabdellaoui. They take on Anya here. Left for scale bread. | :47:00. | :47:09. | |
Get some space to get the cross him. -- scale bread. | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
He is not getting the corner. It was not enough to trouble David Marshall | :47:16. | :47:23. | |
in the end. You can see the wall spinning. I thought that was nicked | :47:24. | :47:35. | |
off. It cuts across it. Does not miss that post by much, does it? | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
Whether Whittaker touched it or not, it was enough to put off the | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
Norwegian. He thought his team were in front there just before the | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
interval. We're giving it away again. -- Greer. | :47:55. | :48:20. | |
Poor attach, the story of the half for the visitors. A good performance | :48:21. | :48:28. | |
tonight for Charlie Mulgrew. He has performed terrifically well | :48:29. | :48:40. | |
alongside Scott Brown. Almost to the extent that it was the first part of | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
the team that Gordon Strachan filled out. Brown and Mulgrew, Mulgrew back | :48:45. | :48:58. | |
at his club. Mulgrew and Brown, Champions League level. You just | :48:59. | :49:05. | |
think they could play anywhere. They look so comfortable. No stoppage | :49:06. | :49:13. | |
time at the end of a trying first half. For Scotland and Norway | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
tonight, Kamara, one of the players who have had a glimpse of a goal in | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
the opening 45. Scotland have managed to stand firm despite an | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
onslaught here in Scandinavia. At half-time, it is 0-0. | :49:31. | :49:42. | |
Scotland's last match of 2013 has not been graded viewing so far, has | :49:43. | :49:53. | |
it? -- great viewing. My guests are here with me in the studio. We are | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
often pretty sharpish in terms of the television show, so we will be | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
going into extra time ourselves to add to the reaction that we can show | :50:02. | :50:08. | |
you. It will be available on the website at the address you see on | :50:09. | :50:11. | |
the screen at the moment for as long as it takes to bring you all of the | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
analysis and reaction to tonight's game. Pat, we are used to seeing | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
better from Scotland of late. Are they toying with a new system? Our | :50:22. | :50:28. | |
players underperforming? It is difficult to know what is wrong. | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
Many things seem to be wrong. We have enjoyed watching Scotland, but | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
the last four or five games, it has been a job to -- a joy to watch, but | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
everything is upside down at the moment. There are quite a few | :50:44. | :50:53. | |
players who are having off days. We could make the excuse that the pitch | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
is not that easy to play on, but it does not seem to affect the | :50:58. | :50:59. | |
Norwegians that badly. At the moment, not a very good 45 minutes | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
for Scotland. Should we be bothering about this anyway? Does this affect | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
the performance tonight, where Scotland are going long-term? It | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
would be good to keep the momentum going. We have done well in the last | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
few games and it would be a shame to get a poor result tonight. The | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
energy was not quite there. They seem to be in our faces, taking the | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
ball off us and coming forward at will. Scotland were dominating for | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
the first two minutes! The first two minutes were all right for top I do | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
not think we have been in the box since then. All right. At least it | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
is 0-0 for the unsure we can change things after half-time and have a | :51:48. | :51:58. | |
better showing in the second half. The keeper made a mistake here. He | :51:59. | :52:05. | |
had had a chance post up there was a long touch on it. You have to have a | :52:06. | :52:12. | |
go. He has a smash at it. Maybe this is just the one point where we can | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
show what is best about Scotland. Anya has worked incredibly hard and | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
has tried to get the ball rights when it hasn't been right. He has | :52:23. | :52:29. | |
also worked really hard defensively. That has kind of stopped them coming | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
down that area a little bit. But apart from that, there is not a lot | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
else that I would call plus points of stopped -- points. Maybe they | :52:38. | :52:48. | |
have lulled us into a false sense of security. It has been slack | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
Scotland. It has not been great. Some of the first touches have not | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
been great. We have played ourselves into a lot of trouble. I do not | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
know, I cannot put my finger on why it has gone so wrong. It is such a | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
simple part of the game. We have not seen passing going right. There has | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
been a lot of pressure. Giving it away easily when you have | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
possession, you have to make sure you do it right. A little bit slack. | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
It has to be more than that. You have to be aware of everything that | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
is around you and know that your team is up for it. The Norwegians | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
are definitely up for it. Even Snodgrass, who has been so good, he | :53:39. | :53:45. | |
has been caught with the ball a few times, and that could have ended up | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
back in the net. This is almost typical. Just straight out of the | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
park. We are generally not like that. We had a long chat during the | :53:55. | :54:01. | |
game, we are not necessarily playing the normal formation, but a | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
different one, and there is almost no-one to pass it to. It is you can | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
cut out a little bit because we are not really on top of it. It is a | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
different system, but it does ossify players different from the team that | :54:19. | :54:23. | |
started on night against the USA. -- but it is also five different | :54:24. | :54:32. | |
players. Everybody knows what is going on. International football is | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
like that, you get a lot of changes from one game to the next, and you | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
go months without seeing each other. They have to be able to go in and | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
adapt to a system that they know. Maybe that has not worked tonight as | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
quickly in the first half, so it was changed at the end. We might see a | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
different formation in this half again. Can we go to if needed in a | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
qualifying campaign maybe not after that. Does the system matter that | :55:02. | :55:13. | |
much? Some of the teams, I think it comes back to... If you set the | :55:14. | :55:21. | |
midfield players and they are giving the ball away too easily, they just | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
come through with ease. Well done, Marshall, coming up here. That was | :55:29. | :55:38. | |
really well read by the goalkeeper. In the rights back area, they have | :55:39. | :55:41. | |
got far too many crosses and opportunities from there. He was | :55:42. | :55:50. | |
trying to play for two touches. You see, he was not trying to play for | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
that. Coming up on the left ear, their best chances for me, I do not | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
know if the -- if you would actually call this a chance, but it was one | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
hell of a cross. If he gets a foot on that, but it is so often that you | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
get the sort of half chances and never get a foot on it and you come | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
down the left with such ease. That was absolutely incredible. It is | :56:16. | :56:21. | |
Anya who is at left back there. This is probably arguably the best | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
chance. There was a little bit of luck there at the end. It just takes | :56:27. | :56:35. | |
it wide. There was no chance. It just makes by the past -- far | :56:36. | :56:42. | |
poster. Marshall is looking pretty scarlet -- solid four Scotland. What | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
is the difference between McGregor and Marshall at the moment? Not a | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
lot at the moment. Allen is injured at the moment. David has come in | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
with his first clean sheet against the USA and is looking to build on | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
that now. He had a really solid start. There is not a lot for us to | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
induce about tonight, but the score line has been on their way, and | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
thankfully, no damage done. That is basically only a positive. It is | :57:16. | :57:22. | |
quite a good thing and the fact that we can do last-ditch defending, but | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
this is not meant to be a back to the wall performance. This is not a | :57:28. | :57:30. | |
team set out to play that way. This is a team that wants to get forward | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
and we just have not been able to do it so far. We have seen the | :57:36. | :57:38. | |
opportunity to get there. I am sure Orden Strachan is scratching his | :57:39. | :57:46. | |
head. -- court in Strachan -- Gordon Strachan. He will try another one | :57:47. | :57:53. | |
for 15 minutes and then there will be another one or two changes as | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
well. The big about it, we ended up doing so much the opposite of what | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
Gordon Strachan genuinely wants his team to do. You want to go and find | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
players. These are just two or three. And that tells me there is a | :58:11. | :58:19. | |
little bit of a lack of belief. The lads have not been doing that | :58:20. | :58:27. | |
recently. We have almost been spoiled by not having it that way | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
for a wild. Under boarding, we have done a lot better come and it just | :58:32. | :58:37. | |
feels a bit poor for us. -- under Gordon Strachan. I just did not feel | :58:38. | :58:44. | |
that that is he -- how he would want his team to play. Not playing for | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
Scotland tonight is probably a good idea. Maybe it enhances your | :58:49. | :58:54. | |
thoughts of value of C Mulgrew and the central area with Scott Brown. | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
-- Charlie Mulgrew. They keep possession so well. Your view of | :59:00. | :59:05. | |
Charlie Mulgrew is a must put up by what is not happening here. Playing | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
together at club level, they know each other's game and they have an | :59:12. | :59:15. | |
understanding between them. It helps when they come into the | :59:16. | :59:18. | |
international football to know what each other will do. They are not in | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
that area where defensive qualities and working together is so | :59:25. | :59:29. | |
important. Because they have that relationship at club level, it can't | :59:30. | :59:33. | |
carry through to the national team, and they are probably -- it can | :59:34. | :59:37. | |
carry through to the national team. Scott Brown, such a valuable member | :59:38. | :59:45. | |
of the Scotland team, but we can do without the petulance, can't we, | :59:46. | :59:50. | |
which got him into trouble during Celtic against Barcelona. Revery | :59:51. | :00:00. | |
Celtic fan must look at this and thishgs Scott, have you not learned | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
your lesson. It is not violent bs but it got him a three-match ban | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
unnecessarily. It is unthinkable you can keep doing that. Scott Brown we | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
will rave about, because he is a superb player, he is not missing | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
games, he has got himself fit. Everything says alongside Mulgrew | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
for Celtic are fantastic. But don't do that. It's so naive. That is why | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
we need to flag it up. You can't ignore it. Eventually let's hope it | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
drills home that it is unacceptable at any point. Some people are | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
thinking we are putting a magnifying class over that, but there was a | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
time in football where you could get away with that, because the coverage | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
wasn't so good. But that sort of thing will be picked up. He is | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
already paying the price at club level for exactly that. It is silly. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
He hasn't done it for such a long time. He has not had many red cards. | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
He is a wee bit frustrated today. Yes and he has lashed out a bit. It | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
is not the worst kick. The guy doesn't need to be rolling about for | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
five minutes. But he runs the risk. Most of the Norwegian threat has | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
come down the left. Yes it seems like a hatchet job, but we are not | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
getting close enough in the full back area. Alan Hutton's not getting | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
a lot of games and he has been playing well for Scotland. In fact | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
he has been playing unbelievably well considering he doesn't get any | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
games for Villa. Part of the problem was the ease in which they were | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
getting crosses. The ball out here, you have got to get closer. We know | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
they're a danger and are getting chances from that side. So you can't | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
stand off and particularly with Morten Gamst Pedersen. He is a | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
fantastic crosser of the ball. In the end we have got away with it | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
until now. We will not get away with it for another 45 minutes. What will | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
the manager's reaction be at half time? I don't think he will be | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
happy. We have seen him on the touchline, he wasn't happy, | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
especially with keeping the ball. They have done it well, they have | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
threaded balls through the middle and I think we have to be braver on | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
the ball to take possession in difficult areas and keep on it. Then | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
we can start to attack. We haven't kept the ball long enough. That will | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
be something he will look to change. That is the his man trashgs that is | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
-- mantra, that is every successful manager's mantra. If he doesn't | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
change the personnel, I hope for Charlie Adam's sake he puts it back | :03:04. | :03:15. | |
to 4-3-2-1 and puts Charlie beside Scott Brown. He was was giving the | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
ball away. It is easier if you're a deeper lying midfielder and are | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
beside Scott Brown and the game is in front of you. Scotland look more | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
comfortable playing that system. Everyone knows their job. I hope it | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
changes back to that and gives Charlie a chance. Because there is a | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
lot of pressure on him. He knows he is not the first choice and he is | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
probably just desperate to do well. I asked Craig this, how much do you | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
read into what is happening or not happening for Scotland, having taken | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
so many steps forward, could this be a significant step back if the match | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
continues like this? It is not a good situation. There have been | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
important games where we have, in competitive games we have done | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
better. I wouldn't panic about it too much. There are a few changes to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the team. This is not your first choice team and the ball wasn't | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
being held up. Well as I say, one of the changes will be made. Barry | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Bannan enters the fray as we return to our commentary team. We saw him | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
go up the tunnel during the half time warm up, Bannan has replaced | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
Bryson. Goalless and the Norwegians will get us under way for the second | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
45. Can Scotland turn the tables, because we were up against it for a | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
lot of first half. Bannan, having started the last couple of | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
international matches. He has been one of Gordon Strachan's first | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
choice picks. On his for his 16th cap in Norway. What have the Scots | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
got in the locker this second half. The 18th meeting between the | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
nations. Scotland have won seven. Snodgrass goes down and it will be a | :05:15. | :05:39. | |
Scottish free kick. Billy Dodds, Barry Bannan on. Yes, yus a natural | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
wide man. -- just a natural wide man. It is unlucky for Bryson. But | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
he is not a natural wide man. The Norwegians have made a change. | :05:55. | :06:17. | |
Hogly is one of the survivors from the 4-1 win over the Scots. Morten | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
Gamst Pedersen is the other. There was just a little header. It | :06:27. | :06:59. | |
is a fierce strike isn't it? Straight at Marshall though. Well | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
held. A clean hit. The substitutes that have on the bench, Bannan | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
wasn't listed on the team sheet. It wasn't until we saw him warming up | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
that we realised he was part of the party tonight. | :07:21. | :07:35. | |
Norway haven't won in their last five, since beating Cyprus in | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
September. A change of fortune in the Aker Stadium in Molde. 11,800 | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
capacity here. They are putting an artificial pitch in after this game. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
The Norwegian league season is over. It has been a heavy pitch tonight. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Bannan is back to prevent the corner. Yes he did. Hogli wants the | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
corner. I don't know if he did. The linesman culledn't -- couldn't keep | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
up with him on that far side. A throw in. | :08:20. | :08:39. | |
He must have been delighted to bring Morten Gamst Pedersen back into the | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
squad. He retired from international football 12 months ago. He is back | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
in to cover injuries really. There he is fighting with Bannan. He | :08:54. | :09:07. | |
has -- it has gone against the Scotland player. Here is another | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
change. Craig Conway ready to come on and he will want to banish | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
memories of that miss against the United States on Friday night. He | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
must have been thinking about his goal for Dundee United in the | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
victory over Ross County as he bore down on goal. I think there will be | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
a lot of substitutions in the second half. | :09:37. | :09:57. | |
Pedersen there. Just can't quite get it to bend enough. You see our two | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
central midfielders out of the the play, Brown and Adam. When they pick | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
it up, he just wants to find that far post area. Just can't quite get | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
there. That is the Anya, he is struggling. Craig Conway is the | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
natural replacement. He can just go out on the left hand side. It looks | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
as though Anya's evening is over. Right at the start of the second | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
half. Anya's international year ends earl | :10:33. | :10:45. | |
year than he would have -- earlier than he would have liked. He has | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
been a real find for Gordon Strachan. Craig Conway, a good | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
player on his day as well. But a word on Anya and the impact he has | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
made? Yes, we said that in the first half, he has been a real find. But | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
it is worrying for him that he has picked up a few knock and not found | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
himself in the Watford team because of that, and another injury tonight. | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
It is kind of stop/start for him not just at international level. But | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
certainly a real pros effect -- prospect. A seventh cap for Craig | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
Conway. He is at Brighton just now. He wasn't named in Cardiff city's | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
squad for the English Premier League season as the cross comes in. | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
Abdellaoue with a chance there. But it is Morten Gamst Pedersen again, | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
some of his deliveries, look at the deep areas he is putting it in from. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
He doesn't even think about it, he just delivers it. Just a little | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
flick header. He got too much on it. Morten Gamst Pedersen is one of the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Norwegian players who is fit to put his name like the likes of | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
Solskjaer. A classy player. The hand ball has been given against | :12:10. | :12:30. | |
Bannan. The ball was flighted right across him. It was close to him. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
That is unlucky. What can you do about that? I know the hand's up, | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
but he is trying to pull it away. A poor decision. | :12:43. | :12:57. | |
Marshall is organising things. Skjelbred is over this as well. | :12:58. | :13:09. | |
Eikrem takes. They're wanting another hand ball off Bannan, this | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
time inside the penalty area. Still nursing an injury from the first. | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
This one he turns hiss back. He has only been on the pitch for eight | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
minutes and he is in the wars, involved. | :13:29. | :13:43. | |
David Marshall made his Scotland debut just over ten years ago, a | :13:44. | :13:59. | |
defeat to Hungary at Hampden. Alan McGregor the first choice, but he is | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
back at his club Hull City. He picked up an injury just before | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
Gordon Strachan named the squad. A similar pattern to that of the | :14:07. | :14:56. | |
first half. Scotland are struggling to make an impression with the | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
Norwegian defence. I do not think they have given us as big of a | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
problem as they did in the first half. You would expect that to | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
happen due to the quality of Gamst Pedersen. Gamst Pedersen tried to | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
slip it through on the right-hand side of the box. He has scored a | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
couple against Barnsley in the campaign. How do we do better going | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
forward? Not too much to shout about in the match offensively. They have | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
got to grips defensively. That has sort of notified them. Almost. | :16:01. | :16:13. | |
Charlie Adam has gone into the book in the interim as well. I think | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
Gordon Strachan would certainly like his team to be a bigger threat in | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
the match. It has not happened as yet. | :16:27. | :16:43. | |
Vegard Forren certainly got on the scene just in the nick of time. That | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
has resulted in the first booking of the night. It does come back. David | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
Marshall, making the save. Marcus Pederson must've thought he scored, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
and he probably should have. A let off for the Scots. You can call that | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
lucky from Pedersen. As he hits a decent strike, it is too central. | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
Marshall does well. He does some damage and blocks the shot. Strong | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
play by Naismith. That was good. The ball comes in toward Snodgrass. | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
Another important intervention for Vegard Forren. What an opportunity | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
that was just a moment or two ago. Lucky dummy. Abdellaoue just plays | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
it back in. Marshall does well, though. Unorthodox goalkeeping from | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
David Marshall. That will do. Adam could not find Brown. Coming | :18:05. | :18:22. | |
forward at pace. On the right-hand side. It is a Norway corner. He | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
wants a free kick. I think the most important thing is he tracked a | :18:32. | :18:45. | |
runner. He does well, Conway. The guys were highlighting the defensive | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
job that Anya was doing in the first half. Gamst Patterson over in the -- | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
Gamst Pedersen over ending our region -- Norwegian corner. A | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
cluster of players. It is headed over by Vegard Forren. He gets | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
himself away from Russell Martin. Just has to keep it down. Marshall | :19:14. | :19:31. | |
was blocked. Second change, who will replace Abdellaoue. Good use of the | :19:32. | :19:51. | |
ball. The pace as well. Scotland's left-hand side will be happy to see | :19:52. | :20:03. | |
the back of him. He is a right back but he can play right midfield. You | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
will get up and down the park as well. A second Linnes. He was in the | :20:07. | :20:22. | |
under 21 final in the summer, European championship finals. | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
Snodgrass. Adam. Naismith. Good little touch for Brown. Scotland | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
make the net! Scott Brown and a Scotland supporters do not care. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
Firing it into the net, the Scotland giver, the third for his country. -- | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
the Scotland skipper. Let's cut to the chase, we have not been good in | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
this game, but you know what? Scott Brown just came out on the scene and | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
just lashed at it. Flies past the goalkeeper. No chance for him. Pops | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
back to Brown. He does the rest. Good strike but it is undeserved. | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
But we will take it! Friendly or not, Scotland have done it tonight. | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
They could have been won down just a moment or two ago. A great strike by | :21:29. | :21:40. | |
Scott Brown. Coming bang on the hour mark for Gordon Strachan's side. It | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
settled now. -- a bit settled now. Great strike from Brown. His 36th | :21:52. | :22:01. | |
apt tonight. -- cap. Norway are looking to respond immediately. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Write down the throat of David Marshall. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
We all know that they had been riding their luck so far this | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
evening. James McArthur will be on in a moment or two of top the | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Norwegians are about to make another change as well. James McArthur, his | :22:25. | :22:39. | |
15th cap for this country. Abdellaoue has run his team a | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
corner. They will be scratching their heads, wondering, how are we | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
behind the Norwegians? As I said, we will take it. Managed to get it for | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
the corner. Rosenberg is about to come on for Norway Post op -- for | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
Norway. A touch on that, just at the angle of the six yard box. And to | :23:13. | :23:25. | |
Linnes. Poor ball. This changes will be made. Strandberg is on the for | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
Norway. The Norwegian change will be made first. A centre half for a | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
centre half. The Scotland changed is McArthur for Charlie Adam. Like for | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
like. Id. Has given the ball away a lot tonight. -- Charlie Adam has | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
given the ball away a lot tonight. His omentum carries him along. Scott | :24:03. | :24:15. | |
Brown comes in. Names McArthur, on. -- James McArthur, and. | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
International debut for Stefan Strandberg -- James McArthur, and. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
International debut for Stefan Strandberg. | :24:30. | :24:45. | |
Orton generally placed -- martin generally plays at right back but he | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
is doing a great job. There will be plenty more changes between now and | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
the end. Eight chance perhaps for Kris Boyd -- a chance perhaps for | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Kris Boyd to come and. Stuart Armstrong, under 21 captain on the | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
substitutes bench as well. First touch of the ball for banning. -- | :25:18. | :25:38. | |
Snodgrass goes down. That is a free kick challenge by | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
Vegard Forren. What have you made at the defence? Since we have changed | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
her formation, I think we have looked pretty comfortable | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
defensively. -- changed our formation. Gradually we are going | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
into the game. With our first real attack, we scored. That was a | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
confidence boost. It has all gone our way at this point in the game. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
We look as comfortable as we have ever been in the game. It is a free | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
kick for banning. Under pressure from Conway. Away I | :26:14. | :26:30. | |
Vegard Forren, who gave away the free kick in the first place. -- | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
away by. Norway are trying to make another change here. Another who had | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
a short journey to the Stadium. He is going to come on for Skjelbred. | :26:47. | :27:01. | |
Did not really see too much of him. Skjelbred is off. Daehli is on. His | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
second cap. He is one of the new players for the Norwegians. Starting | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
-- starting from scratch, almost. Snodgrass in the base of Vegard | :27:17. | :27:32. | |
Forren. -- the face. Marcus Pederson was the target. | :27:33. | :27:43. | |
Doing the sensible thing. David Marshall, he made that | :27:44. | :28:15. | |
important save from Marcus Pederson just a couple of minutes before | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
Scott Brown but Butland in front. -- Scotland. Temperatures are | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
plummeting in Norway, but the Scotland supporters are enjoying it. | :28:28. | :28:39. | |
Greer is enjoying his time in the setup. He is 33 soon. | :28:40. | :29:04. | |
He is sitting more comfortably now. Not for long-he never -- not for | :29:05. | :29:17. | |
long - he never does, Gordon Strachan! | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
Regardless of whether it is a friendly match, when you're playing | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
a team of a similar standard to yourselves, you're going to have to | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
have some kind of luck and soak up a lot of pressure, regardless of | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
whether it is a meaningful match or not. Yes, and we certainly did that. | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
And we have grown throughout the game and got to grips with their | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
system. The centre halves like a bit more solid than at the start of the | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
game. Then you get the confidence booster of getting that goal and you | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
look not the better team, but so much more solid. | :29:59. | :30:44. | |
A good shout from the keeper. Told Martin to leave it. That's been one | :30:45. | :30:56. | |
of the most encouraging aspeshgts of -- spects of the good run Gordon | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Strachan has put together, is the defensive area, because they were | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
conceding goals. Russell Martin plays right back normally, Grant is | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
not with the squad. Gordon Greer has looked the part. It has sorted a | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
problem that Gordon Strachan had. And there are other centre halves | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
who are keen to get into the team, Mark Reynolds at Aberdeen. | :31:24. | :31:33. | |
It has looked more assured at the back. Yes specially because we were | :31:34. | :31:45. | |
crying out for one twor centre halves to break through. And they | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
have looked comfortable in the last couple of games. Hopefully they can | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
keep another cheap sheet tonight and then you have to look at your | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
keeper, I think Marshall has done well. He has made a couple of | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
important stops and commanded his box. We are looking pretty good | :32:03. | :32:10. | |
defensively. But I don't want to tempt fate too much! He is in good | :32:11. | :32:18. | |
form and playing in the top flight for Cardiff, Marshall. A couple of | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
big results against the big teams and the victory against Swansea | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
recently. It is turned wide. Morten Gamst | :32:28. | :32:45. | |
Pedersen. Linnes showing he can get forward down that right hand side. | :32:46. | :32:54. | |
Daehli just laying it inside. And just off balance, isn't he? Morten | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
Gamst Pedersen just has to direct it on target. He sort of stumbles on to | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
the ball and knocks it wide. He should have been able to take it | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
with the right foot there. Daehli looks a threat on the right. | :33:09. | :33:33. | |
He has caused the foot back, Whittaker, a couple of issues since | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
coming on. The manager trying to work out how | :33:38. | :34:28. | |
to get his team back into this. He took over the job from Olsen. He has | :34:29. | :34:38. | |
been rubbing his eyes as to why his team are behind. | :34:39. | :34:57. | |
A bit of defending for the Scots to do in the last 15 minutes of the | :34:58. | :35:07. | |
match. Brown's goal came on 61. Taking no chances with Strandberg. | :35:08. | :35:17. | |
The Scotland boss was asked to come back to the country and the SOS was | :35:18. | :35:37. | |
issued to him from the stands as the Scots went down in Belgium. He has | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
certainly done that in the last ten months. | :35:43. | :35:58. | |
The one area of the box there was no one in red, thankfully from a | :35:59. | :36:06. | |
Scottish point of view. Despite the changes, Norway beginning to get | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
back into their passing routine and exert more pressure. We started | :36:11. | :36:17. | |
seeing the full backs getting forward again. Linnes on the far | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
side and Hogli on this side. A couple of crosses. But again | :36:23. | :36:24. | |
Scotland defend it pretty well. Jenssen taken out by Snodgrass. | :36:25. | :36:46. | |
Another set piece opportunity for the Norwegians. | :36:47. | :36:54. | |
Snodgrass picking up his 15th cap tonight. | :36:55. | :37:22. | |
Marshall makes the save from Marcus Pedersen. It is Scot brown who gets | :37:23. | :37:30. | |
caught on the end of that zonal line. The cross field ball catches | :37:31. | :37:39. | |
him going from the central area. Scot brown just -- Scott Brown just | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
back pedalling. It is a decent save from Marshall. Good strong arms. | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
Scotland with a couple of very good keepers on the go, David Marshall | :37:51. | :37:59. | |
and Alan McGregor, not in the squad. Scott Fox of Partick Thistle is the | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
substitute keeper tonight. Not a great ball from Whittaker. He | :38:04. | :38:21. | |
was trying to find Conway. But try as he might, he can't get into the | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
game, the left-winger. A poor ball from Forren. Another | :38:25. | :38:49. | |
change in the offing for Norwegians, they are going to bring Konradsen on | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
in a moment. He plays for Rennes in France. It will just be his third | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
cap. The most expensive export from the | :39:00. | :39:21. | |
new Norwegian champions. A midfielder for a midfielder. ?1.5 | :39:22. | :39:32. | |
million it took Rennes to prise him from his club in his homeland. He | :39:33. | :39:34. | |
hasn't seen much action for Rennes. Another promising opportunity. | :39:35. | :39:58. | |
Labd's shot was -- Abdellaoue's shot was blocked. Barry Bannan gets down | :39:59. | :40:05. | |
on this -- done on this near side and het gets caught ball-watching. | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
Abdellaoue gets the shot off. Bannan is reacting too late. He pulled | :40:12. | :40:19. | |
back, Abdellaoue, it is a good block from Greer. When you're in those | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
wide areas, that is why the full backs are getting forward. The wide | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
midfielders really have to switch on. Another Norway free kick, Morten | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
Gamst Pedersen was fouled according to the referee. The final ten | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
minutes in Molde. Norway zero, Scotland one. It has been backs to | :40:45. | :40:52. | |
the walls at times. Scott Brown with his third international goal | :40:53. | :40:55. | |
separating the teams. Just under 10,000 in the stadium | :40:56. | :41:12. | |
tonight. The natives don't get to see the Norwegian national team at | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
close quarters very often. It is the first time since 1998. That is the | :41:18. | :41:25. | |
only other occasion they have brought the national team here. | :41:26. | :41:33. | |
Rangers played here in 1996 and drew 0-0 against Molde. That is the only | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
famous Scottish side that has come here in recent occasions. | :41:39. | :42:18. | |
The bounce not taking it through. It has taken a lot of punishment the | :42:19. | :42:27. | |
pitch over the season. But even just today, because of the amount of snow | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
that's fallen. It has been ripped up and is being replaced by an | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
artificial turf as Conway is taken out of game and that will be a | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
yellow card for Linnes. It is a Scottish free kick. It is level with | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
the six yard line of Norway. A positive run by Conway. He takes him | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
out. Snodgrass's effort is deflected and | :42:54. | :43:21. | |
Brown looked for a second. We saw that move in Gordon Strachan's first | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
game against Estonia. Mulgrew scored from it on that occasion. They did | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
it against the Americans. This time it is Snodgrass is the man who works | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
the area. That would have been the cherry on the cake, wouldn't it? | :43:41. | :43:56. | |
The ball exactly where Scotland want it going into the time six minutes. | :43:57. | :44:23. | |
A poor ball. A very poor ball. Linnes up from right back perhaps | :44:24. | :45:03. | |
not the same delivery ability as the man he replaced in Elabdellaoui. | :45:04. | :45:13. | |
Another change for the Norwegians. Elyounoussi will come on. | :45:14. | :45:32. | |
Tarik Elyounoussi will be on fairly soon. It was going to happen there | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
but the referee did not spot it. Norway are back on the ball. | :45:38. | :45:48. | |
Gordon Strachan said the traditional formation was a thing of the past. | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
In general, we have matched them up since we have got in that shape. | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
Martin. Gamst Patterson -- Gamst Pedersen | :46:00. | :46:21. | |
began. There were no takers at the cross. The angle just against them | :46:22. | :46:30. | |
from the strike. They just gambled on it. A lot of the flexion. You can | :46:31. | :46:37. | |
see the angle is just not there. -- the flexion stopped -- supply chain. | :46:38. | :46:57. | |
That was easier for Marshall to deal with that time, the effort for | :46:58. | :47:20. | |
Abdellaoue. -- from Abdellaoue. Just three minutes left. | :47:21. | :47:28. | |
Norway are trailing Scotland by one goal. The assistant referee's flag | :47:29. | :47:42. | |
is waving manically. I think that was for McArthur. The referee did | :47:43. | :47:50. | |
not spot it but the linesman it. -- did. | :47:51. | :48:24. | |
Hogli has tried to sneak in behind them. It has been a poor 2013 for | :48:25. | :48:37. | |
Norway. A big contrast between then and Scotland. As a mentioned at the | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
start of the match, Norway... This time last year, Scotland one their | :48:42. | :48:54. | |
game. Scotland were in between managers on that occasion. They have | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 months. Job not done for the | :49:00. | :49:15. | |
Scots left. -- yet. Linnes is trying to take Whittaker out of the game. | :49:16. | :49:25. | |
Jenssen's ball drops back. Final minute. | :49:26. | :49:35. | |
Abdellaoue has been the of space -- plenty of space. Another opportunity | :49:36. | :49:49. | |
comes and goes in for Norway. Marshall has been there. When they | :49:50. | :49:56. | |
do get a good connection on it, they do not hit the target, and that is | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
exactly what he has done there. A lovely header by Gamst Pedersen. It | :50:03. | :50:11. | |
is about a foot wide. Four minutes of stoppage time added on by the | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
Swedish referee because of all of the changes that were made to | :50:17. | :50:24. | |
Scotland. The Norway team are full of new blood. | :50:25. | :50:36. | |
Naismith was fouled by Vegard Forren. | :50:37. | :51:01. | |
Scotland are looking at a change as well. They are being readied for | :51:02. | :51:10. | |
action on the bench. This is the first time Conway has been able to | :51:11. | :51:17. | |
have a run down the left flank. He is going to stretch his legs. | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
Not grass was coming back from what he thought was an offside position | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
there. -- Snodgrass. Straight to Naismith. Scotland are | :51:30. | :51:42. | |
going to finish this game off in stoppage time. McArthur does well. | :51:43. | :51:52. | |
Turns it back to Brown. Looking up a bit for Scott Brown here. Scotland | :51:53. | :52:01. | |
have not been able to do that much tonight. Really good at this stage | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
of the game for Scott Brown. Two minutes, Norway, to try to | :52:06. | :52:32. | |
level. Norway has been on the periphery of the international scene | :52:33. | :52:40. | |
in recent times. There has been a good defensive partnership for | :52:41. | :52:49. | |
Scotland. Conway trying to attack Linnes. Looking for Snodgrass at the | :52:50. | :52:59. | |
back post. Picked up by Nilan -- picked up by the goalkeeper. Gamst | :53:00. | :53:01. | |
Pedersen. I do not know if there I will get on | :53:02. | :53:25. | |
until the final moments. That was a foul by Gamst Pedersen. From a | :53:26. | :53:34. | |
Scotland point of view, that re-kick has bought them some seconds to try | :53:35. | :53:42. | |
and see this game out. -- free kick of the -- free kick. | :53:43. | :53:52. | |
I think Gordon Strachan will look at that and think, he plays all over | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
the place in the first half, switch some things tactically, but pleased | :53:58. | :54:07. | |
with the second half. 28 cap for the player who has just come on. | :54:08. | :54:17. | |
Jenssen's long ball. Scotland just about there. Gamst Pedersen, perhaps | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
one last chance for the Norwegians. Norway are going to have a free kick | :54:22. | :54:34. | |
here, deep into the fifth minute of stoppage time. | :54:35. | :54:46. | |
Everyone back behind the ball. Gamst Pedersen, one last leg of his left | :54:47. | :54:56. | |
boot here to try and salvage this game for Norway. I do not manage. | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
Scotland have ended what has been a year of transition, a year of hope, | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
with a victory here in Norway. Scott Brown with the only goal of the | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
game. Cooper coming to the fore. -- the skipper coming to the fore. It | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
was these cots he found the net. David Marshall was a hero at the | :55:20. | :55:23. | |
other end as well. The Celtic captain and the national captain | :55:24. | :55:29. | |
with his third international goal. Wonderful, powerful strike. The | :55:30. | :55:40. | |
first year of Gordon Strachan as the man in charge has ended well. The | :55:41. | :55:50. | |
qualification draw will be in France in mid February. For the 14 is a | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
World Cup year that will not feature Scotland, but perhaps the future is | :55:57. | :55:59. | |
bright under Strachan. We will hear from Gordon Strachan as | :56:00. | :56:15. | |
soon as we can. What my guests have to explain it, how did Scotland when | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
that? Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. That is what it | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
comes down to. We battled and thoughts. We were second best. -- we | :56:26. | :56:33. | |
battled and fought. We had one opportunity and maybe a slight sniff | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
at the other opportunities. If you look at the possession, we were very | :56:39. | :56:41. | |
lucky to get through, but sometimes, you just have to be lucky | :56:42. | :56:45. | |
and believe in yourself and have a decent keeper as well. Scott Brown | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
does not score to many. A valuable one, this one. It is great that he | :56:51. | :56:58. | |
is even out there. He played a little bit deeper. He is supporting | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
the play. Charlie Adam goes forward and Scott Brown hit it. The | :57:06. | :57:14. | |
goalkeeper goes with the one hand. If he went with two that would | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
probably have been a block. The deflection might be the little thing | :57:20. | :57:22. | |
that pushed the goalkeeper off. I still think he could have kept that | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
out. The strike is the important thing. He just gets lots of power | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
and gets his head over it and goes towards the corner. It had in a | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
tough time at various points in the game. A player with experience just | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
does not believe it. He works through it and he did. Another | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
valuable contribution for Scotland tonight was from David Marshall. | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
Absolutely. He has had a few really good saves in the game. A vital save | :57:53. | :58:00. | |
their to keep the score line blank. He did not read it too early or try | :58:01. | :58:07. | |
to cover the wrong side of the goal. He stayed back long enough to manage | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
to get a leg on it. It was unorthodox goalkeeping. That is a | :58:14. | :58:20. | |
really good save. He stayed up long enough to react and get a boot on | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
that. He is in control of this one. He gets a wide and gets it in a good | :58:26. | :58:33. | |
area. That was a great area to get help from the defenders. The | :58:34. | :58:40. | |
important bit is that it is away from goal and it is that the site | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
and there is no chance for a rebound. Two big performances from | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
Scott Brown and David Marshall. Here they are with our correspondent. Is | :58:49. | :58:57. | |
It was a tough match? Yes the lavrds fought all the way. We didn't play | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
the best, but we got the result. Why do you think the performance wasn't | :59:03. | :59:05. | |
as good as we have seen from Scotland? I think the pitch played a | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
big part. It was soft and soggy and we couldn't pass the ball as well. | :59:12. | :59:14. | |
But fair play, they tried to pass the ball about and we gave as good | :59:15. | :59:22. | |
as we got and got a wit of o' -- bit of luck. You will take that every | :59:23. | :59:26. | |
time? Yes, it was one that I just hit and hope and it was a | :59:27. | :59:29. | |
deflection, but it went in and that is all that matters. David, a busy | :59:30. | :59:36. | |
night for you. What was your take on the match? I don't think we played | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
really well first half. They started well in the game and pressed us well | :59:41. | :59:45. | |
and probably a mixture of them playing well and us not playing | :59:46. | :59:50. | |
great first half. But as the second half went on, we got more | :59:51. | :59:58. | |
comfortable and Scott has put the goal awa ge -- away and we have been | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
on a decent run. It is another victory and another clean sheet. | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
Yes, that is we are on a good run of form. The clean sheet gives us a | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
chance of winning games. Maybe didn't deserve the win tonight, but | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
the way the boys hung on, I think it was justified. Looking forward to | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
the draw in February for euro 2016 and hopefully progressing? Yes | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
especially with our form now. It will be interesting any man. Thank | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
you, well done guys. David Marshall had something to do with that cheap | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
sheet -- clean sheet, but there was great chances. Yes on another night | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
we could have lost two or three goals. They missed some good | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
opportunities. That is good goal keeping. He doesn't look favourite. | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
But he is off his line sharp to clear the ball. It is different | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
parts of his game he has had to work on. You say he doesn't always catch | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
the ball. Scott brown mentioned the conditions. Sometimes it doesn't | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
suit to play your style. It didn't seem to stop the Norwegians, but | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
they did have loads of chances. Against a better team, Scotland may | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
have suffered. They could have done. We gave them a lot of chaps and that | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
hasn't been like us. The keeper hasn't had to make any saves, | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
whoever has been in goal. Tonight was an offnight and we probably got | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
away with it the. That is a great chance late on that they should have | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
scored. Is that a Seip of the times for Scotland -- sign of the times. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
That we can play disappointingly and come away with a victory. That is a | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
long time sips we have been able to do that. It is a bit of luck and | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
also the manager organises the team and now we have six hours worth of | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
play and lost one goal. That will do for us. That is all we have time for | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
for the TV programme. But the chat with us will continue online on the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
BBC web-site. Join us for that and we will hear from sfrachlt on that | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
as well. Tonight another helping of feel good factor and in the final | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
game for Scotland in 2013, Gordon Strachan's team victors in Norway. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Bye for now. | :02:35. | :02:37. |