Two going on four, five or six on good night for new Scotland era
Scotland secured a dominant 2-0 victory over North Macedonia in a Nations League match, marking a successful start to a new era for the team. The match was highlighted by Andy Robertson's 100th cap and a lopsided performance that saw Scotland control nearly every aspect of the game.
Why it matters
The result reflects the current trajectory of the Scottish national team and provides a morale boost for fans during a transitional period.
Figure caption, Highlights: North Macedonia 0-2 Scotland
BBC Scotland's chief sports writer in Skopje Published 22 minutes ago When Scott McKenna was sent off late in the night in Skopje, North Macedonia did something they looked entirely incapable of doing for 80-plus minutes spent buried in Scotland's collective pocket.
They strung a couple of passes together, had a few shots, raised an odd cheer from their dismally small support.
Fair play to them because for much of this Nations League game it looked as if they were comatose; out-played and out-fought. Scotland, with their energy and urgency, had reduced them to the ranks of the lifeless.
Skopje is a city of statues, two or three hundred of them apparently, great big things in squares and in fountains commemorating tsars and dames, emperors and warriors, royalty and revolutionaries.
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