Live score Scotland vs. Germany – END. Germany triumphed handily 5-1, and they also won 5-0 on corner kicks.

– MINUTE 90+3: Germany scored another goal in the last seconds of injury time. Emre Can was the player who ended up with the goal.

– MINUTE 87: Scotland scored an honourable goal from a free kick situation, but Rudiger’s goal was ruled an own goal since it appeared like everything was staged.

– SECONDS 68

The striker that entered the pitch in the second half of Fullkrug scored the goal for Germany, and Scotland still had to concede a goal despite their best efforts. This is not where the match ends. Since there were still no corner kicks, Scotland’s resistance was quite feeble.
– Due to a lack of players in defence, Scotland had to make a personnel change at the start of the second half. Che Adams was forced to “sacrifice” in order to make place for seasoned defender Grant Hanley. Scotland appears to have “settled down” and only reduced its objective of keeping the existing standings and averting more defeats.

– Due to the size of the margin, Germany unexpectedly led 3-0 at the end of the first half. There have only been one yellow card for Germany and one red card for Scotland, and there haven’t been any corner kicks yet.

– MINUTE 45+1: Just before halftime, unexpected events led to another change in the score on the pitch. After it was established that Porteous had fouled Gundogan in the penalty area, Germany was awarded 11 yards and Scotland had just 10 players on the pitch. Kai Havertz achieved a perfect score of 3-0 by not making any mistakes.

– MINUTE 35: As Germany played with more conviction and Scotland remained largely conservative, opting not to take the chance of attacking, the game’s tempo dramatically dropped. The home team most likely won 2-0 at the end of the first half.

– Musiala scored the second goal for the German team rather swiftly in the 19th minute. After conceding two goals in the first half, Scotland is really in danger of losing the game, and it’s possible that the score won’t stay at 2-0. The “cool” thing is that, despite the thrilling pace, there were still no corner kicks at the halfway point of the first half. This is also partially due to Scotland’s tendency to attack from the flanks and their lack of attack planning chances.

– In contrast to predictions, Florian Wirtz and the Euro 2024 home team came into the game with a fierce attacking mentality and quickly took the lead. Since the game started in the tenth minute, the future developments seem very promising because Scotland can’t always concentrate on defence and Germany will take advantage of the excitement to keep attacking and score more goals.

– Host Germany set up a “false 9” shape, while Scotland employed a three-central-defender system that prioritised defence. Given the introductory nature of the game, both teams will likely play carefully in the first half in order to gauge one another.

GERMANY (4-2-3-1): Robert Andrich, Toni Kroos, Ilkay Gundogan, Kai Havertz, Manuel Neuer, Joshua Kimmich, Antonio Rudiger, Jonathan Tah, and Maximilian Mittelstadt.

SCOTLAND (3-4-2-1): Callum McGregor, Scott McTominay, Andy Robertson, Ryan Christie, John McGinn, Che Adams, Angus Gunn, Ryan Porteous, Jack Hendry, Kieran Tierney, Tony Ralston.

Remarks prior to the Scotland vs. Germany game
It would not be overstatement to suggest that the Scottish squad will need to “confront the whole world” given their history of confrontation, present roster, form, and other field circumstances. However, in football, there are situations when a “strong wins the weak” dynamic does not apply.

Nonetheless, winning by a wide margin is not typical of Euro opening games. Only Italy (3-0 versus Türkiye at EURO 2020) has won by more than two goals in the European Football Championship’s opening game in history. Moreover, the German squad lost all three of its opening games at the last three big championships (EURO 2016, World Cup 2018, EURO 2020) for some inexplicable reason.