Women's Nations League: Scotland v Austria
Date: 30 May Time: 19:35 BST Venue: Hampden Park, Glasgow Coverage: Live connected BBC Alba and besides ticker and travel unrecorded substance commentary connected the BBC Sport website.
New caput manager Melissa Andreatta is much excited by the possibilities for the Scotland's Women's squad aft moving with the players for the archetypal clip - and believes they tin sphere their top-tier Nations League status.
Scotland circular disconnected a so-far miserable Nations League Group A1 run astatine location to Austria connected Friday earlier travelling to the Netherlands 4 days aboriginal - with some matches unrecorded connected the BBC.
As they did during their archetypal stint successful League A successful 2023, Scotland person struggled among the elite of the Nations League and person yet to instrumentality a constituent from their 4 matches.
To person a accidental of preserving their League A presumption via a play-off, they volition request to bushed Austria by 2 goals astatine Hampden.
They mislaid 1-0 connected matchday 1 astatine the Josko Arena but those are Austria's lone points of their ain humble campaign.
When the erstwhile Australia adjunct caput manager was asked if she believes her caller broadside tin debar Nations League relegation, she replied "we judge we tin bash that".
The 46-year-old added: "'Excited' is simply a bully connection for maine to use. I decidedly am, but I privation to beryllium measured arsenic good and cognize that it's going to instrumentality clip and there's advancement to beryllium made successful bid to lucifer our ambition with the belief.
"The archetypal fewer weeks person been much than I had hoped for. I said to the players that I'm falling successful emotion with this state and the shot speaks for itself.
"I lone spot accidental and yes, there's going to beryllium pugnacious times and yes, there's a batch of advancement to beryllium made, but we judge successful what we have, we judge we person what it takes and we're going to fight."
Andreatta has taken implicit pursuing the exit of Pedro Martinez Losa - who is present successful complaint of Mexican nine Tigres - aft Scotland's nonaccomplishment to scope the Euro 2025 finals.
She volition lone person 2 games to enactment with Rachel Corsie, arsenic the 35-year-old volition discontinue astatine the extremity of this planetary window.
The Australian paid tribute to the erstwhile captain's demeanour astir what volition beryllium her last planetary camp.
"Rachel Corsie - what a legend," added Andreatta.
"It's been ace humbling to to enactment with her successful these past fewer days and the professionalism of Rachel is what's truly stood retired and her willingness to stock her experiences with some players and staff.
"I deliberation she's had a truly affirmative interaction connected the radical connected her instrumentality to campy and each she's focused connected is her relation and what the squad needs to bash to play the mode we privation to."
In Andreatta's archetypal squad determination is simply a archetypal telephone up for Hibernian striker Kathleen McGovern, who has 25 goals for the Scottish Women's Premier League leaders, portion Rangers skipper Nicola Docherty and 2 club-mates - winger Brogan Hay and guardant Kirsty Howat - person besides been recalled.
Scotland person failed to scope a large tourney since 2019.
Analysis - BBC Scotland commentator Thomas Duncan
Andreatta volition anticipation to instrumentality immoderate inspiration from her Austrian counterpart Alexander Schreibl, who took complaint of his archetypal crippled against Scotland successful February and emerged with a constrictive 1-0 win.
These sides person been separated by a azygous extremity the past 2 times they person met with 1 triumph apiece, an illustration of however intimately fought Friday's crippled volition be.
Austria person recovered the going pugnacious since that opening victory, though, losing 4-1 to Germany and 3-1 location and distant to the Netherlands.
They took the pb successful 2 of those 3 games though, and Schreibl has called successful other attacking reinforcements to effort to marque the quality against Scotland, who person struggled for goals for a agelong clip present against sides who person akin oregon greater squad quality.
Striker Nicole Billa, who has 47 goals successful 106 caps, has been recalled and could commencement successful a beforehand two, which has been deployed down a diamond midfield passim the Nations League.
Another forward, Eileen Campbell is besides backmost from a hep injury.
With Scotland needing a two-goal triumph to springiness themselves a accidental of staying successful League A, Austria cognize if they usage their firepower correctly it volition marque beingness precise hard for Andreatta's side.
Goalkeepers: Eartha Cumings (Rosengard), Lee Gibson (Glasgow City), Sandy MacIver (Washington Spirit).
Defenders: Jenna Clark (Liverpool), Rachel Corsie (unattached), Nicola Docherty (Rangers), Sophie Howard (Leicester City), Emma Lawton (Celtic), Rachel McLauchlan (Rangers), Amy Muir (Glasgow City), Kirsty Smith (unattached).
Midfielders: Chelsea Cornet (Rangers), Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea), Lauren Davidson (Brann), Freya Gregory (Newcastle United), Brogan Hay (Rangers), Kirsty MacLean (Rangers), Amy Rodgers (Bristol City), Emma Watson (Manchester United), Caroline Weir (Real Madrid).
Forwards: Kirsty Howat (Rangers), Mia McAulay (Rangers), Kathleen McGovern (Hibernian), Martha Thomas (Tottenham Hotspur).
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