Minute-by-minute report: Euro 2024 kicks off with the hosts facing Steve Clarke’s team in Munich. Get the latest with Niall McVeigh
Think you know your Panenka from your Piratiko? Why not try our quiz, with 24 questions on the history of the Euros …“Hi Niall.” Hello there, Simon McMahon. “Really looking forward to the opening fixture between these two sides. The land of beer, sausages, ridiculous national costumes and unintelligible, emotionally repressed men, versusStep into my tactics truck, and we’ll take a look at how both teams might set up.
Tonight’s opener, pencilled in the diary ever since the draw in early December, feels like a perfect first act. It pits the hosts, among the favourites but still not quite finding that elusive extra gear, against perennial underdogs in. Steve Clarke’s side appear to have slipped backwards since their exceptional qualifying campaign, drifting from dark horses to outsiders in a tricky Group A.
That said, if you have to play Germany in Germany, this is the time to do it – when rustiness and first-night nerves could really play a part. All the pressure is on the hosts tonight, and the longer Scotland can keep them at bay, the greater the tension inside the, er, Munich Football Arena. There lies the path to a shock victory – and if you can’t dream now, when can you?
Kick-off is at 9pm local time, 8pm BST and we’ll have all the buildup, team news and coverage of the opening ceremony.
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