All you need to know about Scotland's June friendlies

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Scotland's Scott McTominay celebrates scoring to marque   it 1-0 during a UEFA Nations League 2024/25 League A/B Play-Off First Leg lucifer  betwixt  Greece and Scotland astatine  Stadio Georgios KaraiskakisImage source, SNS

Scotland big Iceland connected Friday earlier travelling to Liechtenstein connected Monday to adjacent retired their play with 2 affable matches.

With Steve Clarke's broadside not starting their World Cup qualifying run until September, these games are portion of their preparations earlier a tilt astatine reaching the expansive amusement successful the United States, Canada, and Mexico adjacent year.

Here is everything you request to cognize astir the treble header.

Who is successful the Scotland squad?

Clarke named 7 uncapped players successful his squad for these 2 matches, and truthful acold cipher has pulled out.

Goalkeepers: Gunn (unattached), McCrorie (Kilmarnock), Slicker (Ipswich Town)

Defenders: Doig (Sassuolo Calcio), Hanley (Birmingham City), Hendry (Al-Etiffaq), Johnston (Sturm Graz), Scott McKenna (Las Palmas), Patterson (Everton), Ralston (Celtic), Robertson (Liverpool), Souttar (Rangers), Tierney (Arsenal)

Midfielders: Barron (Rangers), Ferguson (Bologna), Gilmour (Napoli), Irving (West Ham United), McGinn (Aston Villa), McTominay (Napoli), Miller (Motherwell)

Forwards: Adams (Torino), Bowie (Hibernian), Conway (Middlesbrough), Wilson (Heart of Midlothian), Hirst (Ipswich Town)

Do the Scotland friendlies matter?

What a daft question, each Scotland crippled matters.

As good arsenic satellite ranking points connected offer, Scotland volition beryllium favourites to triumph some matches and that means determination is expectation.

With World Cup qualifying starting successful the autumn, Clarke and his broadside request to get successful the champion imaginable shape.

That means 2 victories are important, adjacent successful affable matches. It is besides an accidental for immoderate uncapped players to impress.

How bully are Iceland & Liechtenstein?

Naturally for a tiny nation, Iceland person fallen from the heady heights of Euro 2016, erstwhile they reached the quarter-finals successful their archetypal large tournament, and the 2018 World Cup.

Now down astatine 74th successful the satellite rankings, they finished 3rd successful their Nations League B conception down Wales and Turkey, but successful beforehand of Montenegro, who they registered their 2 wins against.

And though they inactive person plentifulness of players representing large clubs astir Europe, prima striker Orri Oskarsson volition not beryllium playing.

The 20-year-old missed the extremity of Real Sociedad's play and is not successful the squad.

As for Liechtenstein, their existent fortunes are bleak.

At 205th successful the world, lone 5 teams are ranked beneath them and 1 of them, San Marino, bushed them doubly successful the caller Nations League D campaign.

The 3-1 decision successful Vaduz was the archetypal distant triumph successful San Marino's history.

It was besides the archetypal clip they scored much than erstwhile successful a competitory crippled and the archetypal clip they had scored 3 goals successful immoderate match.

Despite besides being a tiny nation, nary of those are things Liechtenstein volition beryllium arrogant of.

Anything little than a comfy triumph would beryllium unthinkable for Scotland.

How tin I ticker the Scotland matches?

The BBC is the lone spot to travel Scotland crossed TV, radio, and online.

All of the sum is accessible connected the BBC Sport app and website, including the unrecorded TV enactment which gets nether mode astatine 19:30 BST from Hampden connected Friday for the Iceland match, which is simply a 19:45 kick-off.

Injured Scotland striker Lyndon Dykes is portion of the sum on with James McFadden connected BBC One Scotland and iPlayer.

On Monday, the Liechtenstein lucifer is simply a 17:00 BST footwear disconnected with sum connected BBC Scotland and iPlayer from 16:30, with Dykes and erstwhile Scotland skipper Scott Brown arsenic pundits.

Sportsound volition besides person unrecorded commentary connected BBC Radio Scotland Extra and BBC Sounds and determination volition beryllium unrecorded substance coverage, arsenic good arsenic clips and highlights connected the BBC Sport website and app.

When bash Scotland commencement World Cup qualifying?

For immoderate teams, qualification has already started. Five-nation groups person already played 2 games successful their campaign.

But with Scotland lone successful a four-team conception with Denmark, Greece, and Belarus their opening crippled is not until September.

First up is simply a travel to Denmark connected 5 September earlier different distant crippled against Belarus follows 3 days later.

In October Scotland big Greece and Belarus astatine Hampden, earlier ending with the Greeks distant and Denmark astatine Hampden successful November.

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