McGregor and Gilmour were back together against Switzerland and the Scotland team were miles better for it.
And on Sunday night in Stuttgart the script will be perfectly written for Callum McGregor and Billy Gilmour to make sure that we’re still game, as far as hanging around at these European Championships is concerned. For reasons which remain best known to himself, Steve Clarke chose to split this pairing up for the opening day of Group A - a savage, brutal affair during which his side was given a mauling all over midfield.
The Celtic skipper beamed: “Billy was excellent. When he comes in he takes the ball and he gets us playing. I like playing beside him because he will take the ball and will start to connect the game. And it’s why Clarke’s decision to make Gilmour sit the first one out is still difficult to unpack, even though the manager said it was always part of his masterplan to pick up four points from the last two games in Group A. McGregor, though, might take some convincing.
“We gave a good account of ourselves. It was much more like the Scotland team we have been and how we qualified. Everyone left the pitch with no regrets. On a different night we could maybe have nicked it. The players showed brilliant personality after the other day, a difficult day. You have to be together and come out fighting and that is exactly what we did. We arrive into the last game with a big chance.
“It was probably the manner of the defeat the other night which made everyone feel a bit sore and not great. As footballers you have to deal with that. You have to try to put it right.
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