{"id":19271,"date":"2021-11-29T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/scotland-2-0-denmark-john-souttar-and-che-adams-earn-home-world-cup-play-off\/"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:49:19","slug":"scotland-2-0-denmark-john-souttar-and-che-adams-earn-home-world-cup-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/sport\/scotland-2-0-denmark-john-souttar-and-che-adams-earn-home-world-cup-play-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland 2-0 Denmark: John Souttar and Che Adams earn home World Cup play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Souttar made a scoring return to the Scotland side after a three-year absenceScotland secured a seeded spot in the World Cup play-off semi-finals as goals from John Souttar and Che Adams stunned Denmark with a thrilling performance at Hampden Park.Steve Clarke&#8217;s Group F runners-up needed at least a point against the runaway leaders to give themselves a chance of a home draw.But centre-half Souttar headed home in his first Scotland game since being sent off in a 2018 defeat by Israel and striker Adams burst clear to settle growing nerves after 86 minutes.Reaction &#038; as it happenedEuros was catalyst for World Cup run &#8211; ClarkeHow did Scotland salvage campaign to focus in on play-offs?Scotland had lived dangerously in the closing stages before that breakaway goal secured a sixth competitive victory in succession for the first time since winning six Home Nations matches in a row between March 1928 and February 1930.It also ended Denmark&#8217;s six-game winning run since losing 2-1 to England at the semi-final stage of the Euro 2020 finals this summer and ensured they fell short of ending their qualification campaign with a 100% record.Scotland started with real intent as, spurred on by a sea of noise from the packed stands, they began at a frenetic pace.However, Denmark survived the early pressure to create the first chance after 10 minutes and remind Scotland of their threat.Midfielder Daniel Wass could only knock Rasmus Kristensen&#8217;s cross wide off his hip from close range before centre-half Andreas Christensen sent a&#8230; Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/59202146?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Souttar made a scoring return to the Scotland side after a three-year absenceScotland secured a seeded spot in the World Cup play-off semi-finals as goals from John Souttar and Che Adams stunned Denmark with a thrilling performance at Hampden Park.Steve Clarke&#8217;s Group F runners-up needed at least a point against the runaway leaders to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":19272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scotland 2-0 Denmark: John Souttar and Che Adams earn home World Cup play-off - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/scotland-2-0-denmark-john-souttar-and-che-adams-earn-home-world-cup-play-off\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scotland 2-0 Denmark: John Souttar and Che Adams earn home World Cup play-off - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Souttar made a scoring return to the Scotland side after a three-year absenceScotland secured a seeded spot in the World Cup play-off semi-finals as goals from John Souttar and Che Adams stunned Denmark with a thrilling performance at Hampden Park.Steve Clarke&#039;s Group F runners-up needed at least a point against the runaway leaders to&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/scotland-2-0-denmark-john-souttar-and-che-adams-earn-home-world-cup-play-off\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-29T14:49:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elida Buresh\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"The Daily Herald\",\"description\":\"Your Super Aggregated News, Blog &amp; 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