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A win was needed and achieved. That 4-4-2 doesn’t work as it’s too lopsided with Gannon Doak high on the right side and McGinn tucked in on the left. I assume it’s designed to allow our full backs - especially Robertson - to bomb on but when we don’t dominate the ball it actually just exposes them. Hickey especially was under the cosh all night and it got better down that side when Patterson came on but I think much of that was to do with Christie also coming on for Doak and playing a bit deeper. Fine against 10-man Curacao and Bolivia’s summer holiday squad but I don’t expect we’ll see it again at the start of a game, with Shankland making way for Christie I would think.

Aye, but he canna fry fash. In a chipper, of course.

I see the England team have been robbed. It's normally them doing the thieving at a World Cup. Now they know how the poor jeweller in Bogotá felt.

A good win for an average Australian team. Mind you, I had to turn the sound off; Australian commentators are up there with English commentators for being one-eyed.

I predict it'll all end in tears .... for some of us, tears of laughter

Top of the group after 1st game, sittin' atop the might Brazil .... disappointing goal difference .... shades of 74?

I would take a nervy 1-0 all day long. And anyway, the World Cup winners always start slowly.

That wasn’t much fun, was it? Onwards and upwards. Off for a lie down…

That was painful. Not a good performance. Good defending, but a win is a win!!

Yasss. Set us up perfectly to go home on goal difference

My nerves won't take this last bit of the game.

Very cagey, not a great performance at all. Need a second.

Not much in it at all, is there? All very cagey.

Decent half. They're not shite, and we're a bit nervy. We started moving the ball quickly, hopefully we'll do the same again this half.

Need to be much quicker in attack, far too slow. Nothing from hickey and Robertson in attack and we need that, but you can tell we are wary of their pace going forward. We definitely need a second at least.

Thank fuck for that. Need to get finger out and get more as we will need a healthy goal difference to cover the two hammerings that are coming our way in Morocco and Brazil games.

YYYAAAASSSS!!! McGinn!

FUUUUUCKKKINNN YAAAASSSSS!!!!!

Not a great start. We are letting them dictate pace of game.

Can’t help but feel a wee bit nervous!

Ah'm in ..... nae lang hame fae daein' a gig near Forfar, now on the home made wine tae keep ma weel stimulated .... here we go! ;)

Just on to coffee to keep me going. Getting nervous now.

Wake up!!! Decent lineup. Play like we did against Bolivia and we're good. Harsh on Christie, who I thought was excellent in that game.

Hendry and Hanley at the back. That gives me the fear