Send for Conway? Flat Scotland edge 203rd-ranked side Gibraltar

Scotland made a visit to a holiday resort feel like a trip to the dentist: occasionally painful but necessary. A team badly in need of goals and a win got both, even if it was a laboured and flat runout against the second worst national team in Europe.

Sadly it was not an exercise which passed without another Scottish casualty. Liam Cooper had come on at half-time for Grant Hanley, who is being eased back after a lengthy layoff, but the Leeds United man lasted barely half an hour before he was hurt in a challenge and had to limp off with a knee injury. With five players already definitely out of Euro 2024 — Aaron Hickey, Lyndon Dykes, Lewis Ferguson, Nathan Patterson and Jacob