Tactics didn’t give Scotland a chance
The first-half performance at Hampden made for pretty dismal viewing for the Tartan Army, although the team did improve as the game wore on and Ukraine sat off. The two strikers, Lyndon Dykes and Che Adams, were isolated by the chasm between the midfield in attack and Ukraine’s three-man midfield – with one man sitting deep – meant that progressing the ball through the middle simply wasn’t an option.
