Gibraltar 0-6 Scotland
Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Group Stages
Sun 11th October 2015
19:45
Estadio Algarve, Faro (N)
Att: 12,401
Referee: Aleksey Kulbakov (Belarus)
C Martin(24)
Maloney(39)
S Fletcher(52, 56, 85)
Naismith(90+1)
Greer(24)
Hutton(52)
Martin(56)
Naismith(85)
S Fletcher(90+1)
A McGregor
A Hutton
G Greer
C Berra
A Robertson
S Brown(C) (D Fletcher 63)
G Dorrans
M Ritchie (J Russell 64)
C Martin (S Naismith 76)
S Maloney
S Fletcher
Manager:
Gordon Strachan
FIFA Ranking: 40
J Robba
E Barnett
J Chipolina
R Casciaro
M Zachara
L Walker
D Duarte (B Perez 57)
A Bardon
R Chipolina(C)
L Casciaro (J Duarte 82)
K Casciaro (M Yome 89)
Manager:
Jeffrey Wood
Key: Goals Assists Missed Penalty Red Card
| 1 | Allan McGregor (Hull City) | (34 Caps) | Age: 33 | ||
| 2 | Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) | (49 Caps) | Age: 30 | ||
| 3 | Andrew Robertson (Hull City) | (8 Caps) | Age: 21 | ||
| 4 | Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) | (31 Caps) | Age: 30 | ||
| 5 | Gordon Greer (Brighton & Hove Albion) | (9 Caps) | Age: 34 | ||
| 6 | Shaun Maloney (Hull City) |
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(45 Caps) | Age: 32 | |
| 7 | Graham Dorrans (Norwich City) | (12 Caps) | Age: 28 | ||
| 8 | Scott Brown (Celtic) Captain | (49 Caps) | Age: 30 | ||
| 9 | Steven Fletcher (Sunderland) |
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(25 Caps) | Age: 28 | |
| 10 | Chris Martin (Derby County) |
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(7 Caps) | Age: 26 | |
| 11 | Matt Ritchie (Bournemouth) | (7 Caps) | Age: 26 | ||
| 16 | Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) | (70 Caps) | Age: 31 | ||
| (Replaced Scott Brown 63 min) | |||||
| 18 | Johnny Russell (Derby County) | (4 Caps) | Age: 25 | ||
| (Replaced Matt Ritchie 64 min) | |||||
| 19 | Steven Naismith (Everton) |
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(41 Caps) | Age: 29 | |
| (Replaced Chris Martin 76 min) | |||||
 Yellow Card  Red Card  Double Booking Goals Scored Assist  Penalty Save |
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9 Steven Fletcher
Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Group Stages
Sun 11th October 2015
19:45
Estadio Algarve, Faro (N)
Att: 12,401
Referee: Aleksey Kulbakov (Belarus)
Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Group Stages
Sun 11th October 2015
19:45
Estadio Algarve, Faro (N)
Att: 12,401
Referee: Aleksey Kulbakov (Belarus)
Scotland went into the Gibraltar match with nothing to play for but pride. Strachan made seven changes to the starting eleven that played against Poland. Scotland almost took the lead after 11 minutes when Maloney shot over the bar from a Fletcher cross. 12 minutes later, Maloney had a header saved by their keeper. From the resulting corner, Greer headed on the ball to the back post, where Chris Martin headed it over the line to get his first international goal. Ten minutes later, Steven Fletcher hit the post when me latched on to a Chris Martin cross. Four minutes later, a blocked shot by Dorrans fell to Maloney, who curled the ball into the far corner to give Scotland a 2-0 lead at half time. Six minutes into the second half, Steven Fletcher made it three when he headed a Hutton cross past the keeper. Four minutes later, Fletcher got another when he received a pass from Chris Martin inside the box, and he hit a low shot past the keeper that went in off the post to make it 4-0. Midway through the second half, substitute Johnny Russell had a shot go just over the bar. With just over five minutes remaining, Naismith played a great ball into the path of Fletcher on the edge of the box, who hit a superb curling shot into the top corner off the bar, to het his second hat-trick against Gibraltar. A few minutes later, Russell was denied his first goal for Scotland when their keeper pulled off a great reflex save. In injury time at the end, Naismith collected the ball on the wing, before he played the one-two with Fletcher, and hit a low shot past their keeper, to round it off with a 6-0 victory. Scotland's biggest away victory since 1949.