Scotland 1 Switzerland 1 Euro 2024 recap: McTominay goal, Ralston error, last 16 hopes still alive
For all pre-match news, weather updates and Tartan Army antics - and then later, follow along with the game itself - right here with The Scotsman Sport live blog.
Scotland v Switzerland Euro 2024 Live: Weather and pre match updates
Key Events
- Scotland 1 (Schar og 13) Switzerland 0
- Scotland 1 Switzerland 1 (Shaqiri 26)
Away from the fans - briefly - and back to the teams.
Our sports team explore whether Scotland are out of the Euros if they lose to Switzerland? What defeat would mean for last 16 hopes (not that we will lose - of course).
Scotland's 5-1 defeat to Germany in the opening match of Euro 2024 has left them with a lot of work to do to salvage their hopes of reaching the latter stages of a major finals for the first time.
Hopes were high going into the tournament that Steve Clarke's side could make history be progressing to the knock-out stages but the humbling in Munich has dented confidence among the Tartan Army.
Read everything you’ve ever dreamed of knowing about this right here.
Pre-match walk
Scotland players have been gathering their thoughts during a pre-match walk in Cologne ahead of kick-off against Switzerland this evening. Even the injured Lyndon Dykes has joined in... how Scotland could do with him on the pitch tonight. There is little more than four hours to go until kick-off and the optimism that was extinguished in Munich last Friday is slowly building again. Why do we do it to ourselves?
Tribute planned
The family of a Tartan Army fan who died in his sleep in Germany two days after Scotland’s opening Euro match have called for an official tribute to be held during tonight’s game.
Colin King, 57, died on Sunday night in Dusseldorf, where he was visiting to watch Scotland play in the Euros.
Read the full story here
Half time in Germany v Hungary
Germany have a 1-0 lead at half time against Hungary in the other game we are keeping an eye on. Certainly not quite as one-sided as Friday night so far.
Will Gilmour start?
Scotsman football writer Alan Pattullo is in position and shares his pre-match thoughts here on the mood, team selection - and his tram ride to the stadium!
Germany-Hungary update
There’s been another goal in Stuttgart... and it’s a second for Germany as the hosts go 2-0 up on Hungary. A beautifully crafted team goal finished off by Ilkay Gundogan. If Germany win by three goals or more, Hungary will replace Scotland at the bottom of Group A on goal difference!
Full-time in Stuttgart
Germany have beaten Hungary 2-0 in tonight’s earlier kick-off in Group A as the hosts become the first team through to the Euro 2024 knock-out stages. Hungary gave a better account of themselves than Scotland did in Munich last Friday... although that would not have been difficult. 11 shots on goal is 11 more than Scotland managed.
Scotland team news
Steve Clarke has resisted the temptation to make wholesale alterations with just two changes from the XI that started the 5-1 drubbing in Munich on Friday. Is this the team you would have picked? It looks like the same 3-4-2-1 system. It will need to work a whole letter better than it did against Germany.
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