CELTIC double-act Kieran Tierney and Anthony Ralston were second-half substitutes as Scotland routed Bolivia 4-0 in Harrison, New Jersy, last night.
Steve Clarke’s men concluded their preparations for the World Cup Finals where they will kick off Group C with an intriguing encounter with Haiti in Boston in the early hours of next Sunday.
Morocco are next up for another game at the same venue five days later and the Scots take on Brazil in Miami on Wednesday evening of June 24.
Clarke watched his players prepare for football’s most prestigious tournament with first-half goals from Che Adams, with a double, Lawrence Shankland and Scott McTominay.
SCOTLAND TO THE FOUR…striker Che Adams thumps in his second and Scotland’s fourth in romp over Bolivia.
The romp came just a week after the 4-1 victory over Dick Advocaat’s Curacao in the send-off at Hampden.
Clarke admitted he now has a selection headache as he gets ready for the big kick-off.
The international gaffer said: “We’ve got fantastic problems. Really good first-half, then I turned round to my bench and the changes we were making were good.
“You lose a little bit of the rhythm of the game when you are making so many changes.
“But the boys who went in, their priority was not to concede because we wanted a clean sheet. It’s been a little while since we had a clean sheet so it is nice to get that.
“Goals will be important, obviously we get told that we don’t score enough goals, but that is back-to-back fours.
“It’s about the creation of the chances, the creation of the chances was good and if you create good chances then we have got players on the pitch who will score goals.”
Clarke, speaking to Sky Sports, continued: “We are as well prepared as we can be at this stage.
“Obviously, you don’t always get everything you want in terms of preparation. We went to Florida for heat and humidity and we got the humidity, but a lot of rain.
“We probably didn’t get the heat we expected, but we got that heat in the first-half on this occasion and I thought we handled it well.
“As much as we have done up until now then we have prepared as well as we can and we will prepare well this week and make sure we start the tournament well.”
HAPPY DAZE…Scots boss Steve Clarke is ready for the World Cup Finals.
Clarke, however, refused to get too carried away with the performance and result and reminded his players that they felt confident heading into Euro 2024 in Germany before a disappointing competition that started with a 5-1 hammering from the host nation.
The Scots supremo added: “We’ve obviously won a couple of games going into the tournament and it is always important that the players are feeling good about themselves.
“But, to be honest, they felt good about themselves going into Germany. so I wouldn’t read too much into it!”
Clarke utilised 10 of his stand-by squad with Tierney replacing skipper Andy Robertson, who joined Spurs during the week, at the interval while Ralston made a 64th-minute appearance when he took over from Aaron Hickey.
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