Scotland ‘still have work to do’ says manager Clarke

Scott McTominay's penalty was enough for the win in Athens - the sides meet again on Sunday.

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Scotland football manager Steve Clarke

Scotland manager Steve Clarke says there is still work to do after their a 1-0 play-off win against Greece in Athens.

Scott McTominay scored a penalty and the Scots could have been further ahead at the break in an impressive showing.

But 17-year-old Konstantinos Karetsas came on and caused havoc, with Greece unfortunate not to level it up for the return leg at Hampden Park on Sunday.

Scotland are looking to remain in League A whereas the Greeks are looking to get out of League B after finishing second behind England and ahead of Republic of Ireland and Finland.

Clarke said: “Game on. It is still open. I don’t see the game as being closed at all.

“I thought the Greeks were good in the second half. Their away record is good in the group stages.

“They went to Ireland and won comfortably, they went to Finland and won comfortably and they went to Wembley and won, so the game is still wide open.

“I thought first half we were excellent, we played the ball around really well, created some good chances, could maybe have been further in front at half-time.

“To be fair to the Greeks they came out the second half and got about us and stopped us playing.”

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Tom Rostance

Tom has been writing about football - and other sports - for almost 20 years. He has covered four summer Olympics and many, many, many football matches from the World Cup final to the bottom of the EFL.

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