Steve Clarke says he has “fantastic problems” when it comes to choice after Scotland concluded their World Cup warm-up matches with an emphatic win over Bolivia.
Clarke began Scotland’s last pleasant earlier than they get their match underway towards Haiti in Boston subsequent week with two strikers and it paid dividends with Lawrence Shankland’s early opener and a Che Adams brace coming both aspect of a Scott McTominay strike within the 4-0 win.
There have been good performances all around the pitch, nevertheless, as Scotland’s gamers seemed to impress earlier than that World Cup opener and Clarke admits he has welcome choice conundrums forward of subsequent week.
“We’ve got fantastic problems,” he mentioned. “Really good first half, then I turned round to my bench and the changes we were making were good. You lose a little bit of the rhythm of the game when you are making so many changes, both sides.
“However the boys who went in, their precedence was to not concede as a result of we wished a clear sheet. It has been a short time since we had a clear sheet so it’s good to get that.
“Goals will be important, obviously we get told that we don’t score enough goals but that is back-to-back fours. It’s about the creation of the chances, the creation of the chances was good tonight and if you create good chances then we have got players on the pitch who will score goals.”
Scotland’s efficiency was all of the extra spectacular given the stifling warmth in Harrison, New Jersey the place the sport was performed, however Clarke was buoyed by the response of his gamers to that and says the group is able to get the match underway.
Scotland gamers calm down throughout a water break towards Bolivia
“We are as well prepared as we can be at this stage,” he mentioned. “Obviously, you don’t always get everything you want in terms of preparation. We went to Florida for heat and humidity and we got the humidity but a lot of rain. We probably didn’t get the heat we expected but we got that heat in the first half today and I thought we handled it well.
“As a lot as we’ve got finished up till now then we’ve got ready in addition to we are able to and we are going to put together nicely this week and ensure we begin the match nicely.”
Clarke refused to get too carried away with the fine performance and result, however, reminding his players that they felt confident heading into Euro 2024 before a disappointing tournament in Germany.
Steve Clarke speaks to Ben Gannon-Doak throughout Scotland’s win over Bolivia
“We’ve obviously won a couple of games going into the tournament and it is always important that the players are feeling good about themselves,” he mentioned.
“But, to be honest, they felt good about themselves going into Germany so I wouldn’t read too much into it!”
