When Kostas Tsimikas swept in Greece’s purpose on 62 minutes, it adopted a passage of play that concerned Greece making 54 virtually unchallenged passes over three minutes throughout which Andy Robertson’s glancing header to clear a cross was the one Scottish contact.
It typified the passiveness of the primary hour.
“I ponder whether Steve will take a look at bringing Billy Gilmour on,” McCann had already mentioned on the break.
“I do not suppose it is labored with Ryan [Christie] and Lewis [Ferguson] taking part in actually slim and deep, as a result of they’ve not acquired on it. We have not been in a position to construct the sport going by way of.”
Gilmour didn’t come on and all of a sudden seize the sport by the scruff of the neck and alter issues on his personal, however nonetheless his affect was there after Christie’s equaliser.
His first actual alternative to get his head up and cross was on 69 minutes and he fired it by way of a decent area to Ferguson, whose first-time cross not far away simply evaded Che Adams as Scotland sprung ahead shortly.
Gilmour’s intelligent free-kick additionally teed up Adams for probability at 1-1 and he ended up with 5 passes into the ultimate third throughout his half hour on the pitch.
Solely Robertson and Ferguson had extra – they usually performed practically the complete sport.
“I believe Billy Gilmour approaching was pivotal by way of us getting maintain of the ball,” McCann mentioned at full-time on BBC Scotland’s Sportscene.
“He was instrumental within the cross-field cross which Tsimikas takes out Ferguson when he ultimately scores.”
As McCann described, Gilmour’s prints had been on the build-up to the second purpose as his positioning allowed Grant Hanley to discover a cross to him between two Greece gamers.
He turned and moved it ahead to Christie, acquired it again, moved the ball to Robertson, earlier than executing the essential cross as soon as McTominay returned it to him.
Tsimikas fouled Ferguson and the Bologna man did brilliantly to take his probability within the field from the free-kick as Scotland hit the entrance.
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