Scotland at World Cup: Chris Boyd says Steve Clarke’s side won’t settle for early start again against Brazil | football news

Chris Boyd says Scotland cannot concede another early goal when they face Brazil in their final Group C match at the World Cup on Wednesday after going behind after 70 seconds against Morocco.

Steve Clarke made a number of changes to his starting line-up on Friday night hoping to frustrate their highly fancied opponents but Just two minutes in Ismail was canceled out by a cyber strike which proved to be the winner.

A win would have seen Scotland qualify from the group stage for the first time at a major tournament, but they still have a good chance of beating Brazil or finishing as one of the best third-placed teams to reach the last 32.

However, it could come down to goal difference and Boyd said Scotland cannot afford another slow start against the five-time world champions in Miami.

“I think it will be similar to what we saw against Morocco, but you have to be sympathetic to that – don’t concede an early goal because suddenly everything changes.” Sky Sports Pandit Boyd Dr.

“Brazil are in a great position themselves after beating Haiti, so they will go through. It will be tough for Scotland.

“Brazil may not have the superstars they had in previous years, but they still have top players out there who can cause you problems – we see that every week with their club team.

“Scotland need to switch on and not score early. They need to play their way into the game, then suddenly, they can feel like they are part of the match.

“If you go back to the Morocco game, I thought Scotland lacked the belief that they should have been on the same pitch as Morocco for a large part of the first half.”

Boyd: Brazil will cause Scotland problems

Earlier, Brazil started their World Cup campaign with a draw against Morocco 3-0 win over Haiti Put them in a more comfortable position in Group C.

Ancelotti made changes for the second game after a somewhat lackluster performance in the opening day’s draw and the full extent of Rafinha’s injury will have to be known after the Barcelona forward went off against Haiti.

However, despite this, Boyd is under no illusions about the quality of the Brazil side and Clarke fully expects his Scotland side to be difficult to break down first and foremost.

“It’s going to be very difficult, there’s no getting away from it,” Boyd said. “Brazil may not have the players they had in 1998 or earlier, but they still have talented footballers who will cause Scotland problems.

“He can change, but I don’t expect Steve to change the formation because, if you do, you leave yourself open to isolation and he doesn’t want that. You look at our start against Morocco; we were still in that game – the last action of the match was Scotland’s corner kick. It could have led to a goal – it didn’t – but we still had a chance to pick up points.

“I think the message will be that we have to start the game better. Scotland were scared after that goal. In the build-up you felt like they were coming up against a superior team, they scored after 71 seconds and suddenly, you’re thinking ‘wow, what’s going on here’.”

“You think it could be a lot worse for Scotland, but you have to learn from that, start the Brazil game positively and see what happens from there.

“I don’t expect Steve to change the formation, I think he will play in a formation that is hard to beat but we have players who can make a difference off the bench, we had glimpses against Morocco but hopefully we can take it over the line.”

Clarke: The games are never easy

Steve Clarke says Scotland’s players will “suffer” from their defeat to Morocco before preparing for Brazil next week.

The Scotland boss was proud of his players’ effort against Morocco but said he needs to give them time to get over the defeat before looking at a result that could secure a place in the knockout stages.

“Yes, definitely (a lot of confidence), but first of all you have to let the players suffer a bit in the next 48 hours because that’s what they’re going to do, they don’t like losing to anybody,” Clarke said.

“So we’ll rest, recover and get ready to go again. Games don’t come easy though, do they?

“I thought we picked ourselves, in the first half, to be fair. Maybe we took 10 minutes into it again because obviously when you get a shock like that, it’s really hard to react.

“Weaker teams would have crumbled against that quality of opposition but we dug in, we got ourselves back into the game, started to move the ball a bit better.

“I thought the second half of the first half after the hydration break, we played well, we had good momentum at half-time and we carried that into the second half. We had a right path.

“Proud of the players, but obviously we’re all devastated and disappointed that we didn’t get the result we wanted so we can continue in this competition as long as we can.”