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Euro 2024 highlights: Germany thrash 10-man Scotland in tournament opener
The Scottish optimism that wafted across Munich throughout Friday always felt like a collective hypnosis, a belief fuelled by booze.
It was a dream those fans hung on to dearly, until Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala started turning it into a nightmare inside 10 minutes of their Euro 2024 opener.
The Tartan Army were under the mistaken impression that this was their party, but it wasn’t.
Their mortification was that, having paid through the nose to be here, many of them might have paid the same again to be anywhere else but Munich.
We can think back to those early shell-shocking moments and examine how they unfolded.
The wonderful Wirtz allowed space and time by his hesitant marker, Anthony Ralston.
Then a second; Kai Havertz running away from Ralston and setting up the equally brilliant, Musiala.
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Wirtz and Musiala took turns to drift over to Ralston’s side of the pitch, where, helpfully for them, Ryan Porteous also roamed.
The Scotland defenders were tag-teamed by two of the most gifted 21-year-olds in European football. Ralston was game but tormented and Porteous red-carded. Read Full Article
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