Scotland add Doohan & McKenna after five keepers ruled out

Scotland person called up escaped cause Ross Doohan and Bournemouth's 18-year-old Callan McKenna for Monday's affable successful Liechtenstein successful an effort to code their goalkeeping crisis.

Angus Gunn and Robby McCrorie person near the squad pursuing Friday's decision by Iceland.

Cieran Slicker suffered a torrid debut astatine Hampden aft replacing the injured Gunn, McCrorie having picked up a strain successful the warm-up.

Scotland caput manager Steve Clarke - who had antecedently warned that his deficiency of options successful the presumption was a interest - admitted aft the crippled helium would beryllium looking for "another goalkeeper successful Scotland who's not connected holiday".

With first-choice Craig Gordon, positive regular squad members Zander Clark and Liam Kelly, missing from the archetypal squad done injury, the federation person been forced to crook to Doohan and McKenna.

Doohan, 27, is reportedly acceptable to instrumentality to Celtic aft leaving Aberdeen, wherever helium played 18 times this word arsenic was back-up to Dimitar Mitov, portion McKenna has been officially added to the squad having trained with them past week.

When Gunn went down injured six minutes into the Iceland game, Clarke had to summon 22-year-old Slicker, who was efficaciously his sixth-choice goalkeeper.

Only 64 seconds into his debut, the erstwhile Scotland Under-21 regular's effort to wide a Kieran Tierney passback was picked up by Andri Gudjohnsen, who curled his thrust implicit the stranded goalkeeper.

Former Manchester City youngster Slicker, who has ne'er played a elder league crippled and lone has 10 minutes of FA Cup shot for Ipswich Town to his sanction successful the play past, was visibly shaken.

Slicker was not the lone culprit arsenic Lewis Ferguson deflected the shot past him aft the Scotland defence made a messiness of clearing a country to manus Iceland a 2-1 pb aft John Souttar's equaliser.

However, the young goalkeeper looked severely astatine responsibility arsenic Victor Palsson's header bypassed his flailing arms for the third.

Clarke was near to reason that "he wasn't rather ready" for specified a large juncture and that "I truly consciousness for him".

Doohan is simply a merchandise of Celtic's younker set-up and had indebtedness spells with Cumbernauld Colts, Greenock Morton, Ayr United, Ross County, Dundee United and Tranmere Rovers earlier joining the League Two nine permanently successful 2022.

After a lone fractional a play there, the Scotland Under-21 headdress moved up to League One with Forest Green Rovers, but pursuing their relegation, helium joined Aberdeen the pursuing summer.

Doohan has been the backmost up astatine Pittodrie, playing lone doubly successful his archetypal play and 18 times successful the latest run portion Bulgaria's Mitov was injured.

With his declaration expiring, helium has near Pittodrie and is being linked with a instrumentality to Celtic, wherever the 27-year-old would apt beryllium back-up to Kasper Schmeichel and Viljami Sinisalo.

McKenna came done the younker ranks with Hibernian, past Queen's Park, making his nonrecreational debut for the second arsenic a 16-year-old successful a Scottish League Cup necktie against East Fife successful July 2023.

Following reports of involvement from Premier League and Championship clubs, helium was sold to Bournemouth successful February 2024 having made conscionable 9 elder appearances - chiefly successful the Scottish 2nd tier.

Since moving south, the Scotland age-group keeper has been successful Bournemouth's improvement broadside and was with Clarke's squad for this campy arsenic a grooming player.