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Szymanski flashes visitors in front from long range & Lewandowski doubles lead from spot after Ralston trips Zalewski Gilmour flashes in from 12 yards & Mc Tominay rams in leveller Zalewsk scores from spot in stoppage time after rash Hanley challenge Mc Tominay effort disallowed for handball after VAR check and Dykes misses glorious chance at back post Gauld & Doak on for debuts Scots visit Portugal in Nations League A Group 1 on Sunday Amy Canavan Scotland 1-2 Poland Oh my, that would have been outstanding. Sebastian Szymanski is whiskers away from bending a beauty into the top corner. Why the opening goalscorer is allowed so much time on the edge of the box, Steve Clarke will surely be wondering. What an effort. Scotland 1-2 Poland Game is stretching a little and spaces are there for Poland. In saying that, even though this is the most the visitors have prodded, they're not exactly passing or playing Scotland off the park. Scotland 1-2 Poland Just Billy Gilmour's second career goal. His other? For Scotland against France. Scotland 1-2 Poland Andy Robertson with the freedom of Hampden to drive into. Pals come and join him, but no one can finish off what would've been a fine move. Some lovely play. Scotland 1-2 Poland Scotland have an unreal record in the Nations League having won 10 of their 16 ties. Loving it a little bit again since Gilmour's goal. Scotland 1-2 Poland Jane Lewis BBC Scotland at Hampden Scotland are back in this tie. An early goal is exactly what

they needed. The Scotland fans are loving this early intent to the second half… Scotland 1-2 Poland Poland look rattled as Scotland win a corner. Scotland 1-2 Poland Leanne Crichton Former Scotland international on BBC Sportsound That's exactly the response you were after. The fans are onside, the belief is back again. Scotland 1-2 Poland Steven Thompson Former Scotland striker on BBC Sportsound You talk about having a positive start to the second half. It's unbelievably positive from Scotland. So, so good from Scotland. Billy Gilmour That's the start Scotland needed! It's the dream restart and after a bit of bouncing around after Lyndon Dykes worked the ball into the mixer, it falls for Billy Gilmour to lash through a sea of bodies. A wee VAR check, again, but this time the goal stands. Game very much on. Scotland 0-2 Poland Poland get us back going and they've made a change but haud fire. .. HT: Scotland 0-2 Poland Leanne Crichton Former Scotland international on BBC Sportsound It's an unbelievable chance. Another phenomenal delivery and Dykes' movement was perfect. HT: Scotland 0-2 Poland Honestly, I'm still just thinking about that Lyndon Dykes chance. HT: Scotland 0-2 Poland Willie Miller Former Aberdeen captain on BBC Sportsound The problem with playing with the two centre-backs is that you're a centre-back down. There was a reluctance from the centre-backs on both occasion for either of the two centre-backs to come out and close down the midfield player. Defensively, the two centre-back situation will be telling Steve Clarke that that's maybe not his best formation. It's been a difficult first half for Grant Hanley HT: Scotland 0-2 Poland Caught a couple of replays of that goal, and maybe it's a better strike than I was first giving credit for. .. Awful bounce for Angus Gunn to deal with, too. HT: Scotland 0-2 Poland Tom English BBC Scotland's chief sports writer on BBC Sportsound They've played well. Build up play: good; intent: good; shots on target: zero; really good chances created: one; glaring miss one. It's a tough school this. Scotland have had two chances against them, both goals. For all the good work and intent that they've had, from all the decent crosses, the Dykes chance, zero shots on target. HT: Scotland 0-2 Poland What Scotland would do for a striker like him. .. Robert Lewandowski celebrates his 84th goal for Scotland Some game in Lisbon. .. Croatia have pulled one back just before half-time. Diogo Dalot, who opened the scoring for Portugal, puts it into his own net. HT: Scotland 0-2 Poland Scott Mc Tominay thought he had nudged Scotland ahead, but it was ruled out for handball Boos can be heard at Hampden. Far from the worst half of football from Scotland, but the scoreline is far from kind. Poland punished Scottish errors to seal victory in Glasgow Scotland's miserable 2024 continued in agonising fashion as Poland were gifted a stoppage-time penalty to quell a valiant Nations League comeback at Hampden. Billy Gilmour and Scott Mc Tominay had scored second-half goals for the revived Scots to cancel out Sebastian Szymanski's long-range effort and Robert Lewandowski's perfectly executed spot-kick for the visitors. However, as Steve Clarke's side pushed for a winner, Nicola Zalewski was the victim of a rash challenge by Grant Hanley and the Pole - who also won the earlier penalty - picked himself up to score the 97th-minute winner. Scotland, who meekly exited this summer's Euros with one point from three group games, now must travel to face Portugal on Sunday with a record of just one win in 13 and five defeats in 2024. Reaction & have your say on Scotland's agonising defeat Portugal beat Croatia in Scotland's group 'Scotland’s capacity for self-sabotage delivers fresh horror' How this game ended in the manner it did beggars belief. And not only because Scotland seemed a defeated team after a frustrating first half. Clarke's side played with much more intent than they had in Germany but lost two poor goals to trail. First, Szymanski was not closed down quickly enough by Scott Mc Kenna as he lined up a 30-yarder that bounced off a post and past Angus Gunn. Scotland then looked suspect again as Zalewski drove into the box and was felled by a clumsy Anthony Ralston challenge. Veteran Lewandowski's conversion was confident and classy as he sent Gunn the wrong way. In between those goals, Andy Robertson's free-kick was bundled in by Mc Tominay but the Napoli midfielder was judged by the VAR officials to have handled. And Ryan Christie's delivery from the left found Lyndon Dykes, but his effort found the side netting, when shooting across goal may have been more profitable. Scotland needed to respond early in the second half and respond they did. John Mc Ginn forced the ball into a dangerous area and Christie set up Gilmour to strike. That got the home fans back onside but hearts were in mouths when Szymanski sent another long-range effort inches wide. Mc Tominay continued to be Scotland's main threat and he timed his run superbly to tap home Ben Doak's low centre, the 18-year-old having come on for his debut alongside Ryan Gauld. Roared on by the Hampden crowd, Clarke's men looked the most likely to win. However, Mc Ginn conceded possession in his own half in the preamble to Zalewski's run into the box and Hanley led with the wrong foot as he fouled the forward near the bye-line. Gunn guessed correctly but could not keep the Pole's penalty out and Scotland were consigned to another defeat. Nicola Zalewski (left) won two penalties and scored the decisive one Clarke, without Celtic captain Callum Mc Gregor after his international retirement, elected not to give starts to six uncapped players, but Gauld and Doak did appear. Even without injured Kieran Tierney, the XI was along familiar lines, though in a 4-3-3 rather than a 3-5-2. The formation certainly gave Scotland more of an attacking look compared with the defeat by Hungary that ended their Euros campaign. Gilmour and Mc Tominay getting into advanced positions for their respective second and 10th international goals was emblematic of that. But defensively Scotland's problems persist. They have conceded 17 times in eight outings this year - more than two goals a game. Poland also had a disappointing Euro 2024 but their undoubted quality was obvious to see on Glasgow's south side, including to a vocal throng of visiting fans. This video can not be played Scotland 'lost game we shouldn't have lost' Scotland head coach Steve Clarke: "I'm disappointed to lose a game like that, a game we shouldn't lose. But if you make errors at this level you get punished. "There were lots of good things but it's still a defeat. Everyone is disappointed. We lost a game we shouldn't have lost. "It's not about picking out individuals, I never do that and I'm not going to start now. We win as a team, we lose as a team. We'll analyse the game and speak in camp. " Scotland midfielder Billy Gilmour: "We showed in good spells what we’ve been building on, but tonight we’re disappointed going down to a defeat. We know what we’re capable of and we need to believe a bit more. "Over the years we’ve been getting better and better. Tonight’s disappointing but I think for spells we controlled the game, we got ourselves back into it, but we’ll look at it as a team and see where we can better. ’’ Scotland forward Lyndon Dykes: "We thought we were the better team, but it's frustrating the way it went. You can’t be conceding that many goals. "There’s been a few changes on the training pitch. We’ve been working on a lot of things. I think you could see we were trying to press high and be the dominant team on the ball and make chances. We did all that, it just wasn’t our night. "We need to go back to basics. We know what we are capable of and we need to stick together because we are a family, and I’m sure the results will come again. " Scotland are without a win in their past five home games (D2 L3), their longest run since November 2008 (D3 L2). Billy Gilmour scored his second international goal and first since October 2023 against France. It’s the first time Scotland have scored a minute after half-time since Christian Dailly against Lithuania in September 2006. Scott Mc Tominay has scored 10 Scotland goals, with nine of them in his past 16 appearances. He has six goals in his past seven games at Hampden. Robert Lewandowski has been involved in 10 goals in his past 10 starts for Poland (6 goals, 4 assists). Since the inception of the Nations League in 2018, only Kevin De Bruyne and Marco Asensio (both 7) have more assists than Poland's Robert Lewandowski (6). Comments can not be loaded To load Comments you need to enable Java Script in your browser Last Updated 5th September 2024 at 21: 47 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Manager: Steve Clarke Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Michal Probierz Formation: 3 - 5 - 2 To watch and listen, you need to enable Java Script in your browser. Off the Ball take petty & ill-informed look at Scotland game. BBC Radio Scotland. Audio Off the Ball take petty & ill-informed look at Scotland game BBC Radio Scotland UEFA Nations League All competitions All competitions All competitions Five of the last six meetings between Scotland and Poland have ended as draws, including the most recent game in March 2022, a 1-1 draw in a friendly. Scotland have never beaten Poland in a competitive international match in four attempts (D3 L1), despite going ahead in each of the last three competitive games between the nations. Scotland have only won one of their last 12 matches (D4 L7), a 2-0 friendly victory against Gibraltar who were ranked 203 in the world. The Scots have lost six of their last seven games against teams ranked above them in the FIFA Rankings (D1). Poland have only won four of their 16 matches in the UEFA Nations League (D4 L8), with all four wins coming against the same two nations: two wins vs Bosnia in 2020 and two wins vs Wales in 2022. Having won 15 out of 18 competitive internationals between September 2021 and September 2023 (D1 L2), Scotland are now winless in six (D3 L3). They last endured a longer run between October 2011 and March 2013 (seven). Scotland have won 10 of their 16 matches in the UEFA Nations League (D2 L4), with their 62. 5% win ratio the best of any nation in the competition. Andy Robertson could win his 75th cap for Scotland in this game, becoming just the seventh player to achieve that for the Scottish national team alongside Kenny Dalglish, Alex Mc Leish, Jim Leighton, Paul Mc Stay, Darren Fletcher and Craig Gordon. Robert Lewandowski has been involved in eight goals in his last nine starts for Poland (5 goals, 3 assists) and netted twice in his last appearance against Scotland in October 2015 at Hampden Park. © 2024 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.