'Four points to qualify' - Clarke seeks Scottish first

Steve Clarke says Scotland's ambition is to spell into their last Euro 2024 Group A crippled pinch a chance of progressing to nan adjacent round.

The Scots unfastened nan tourney against hosts Germany successful Munich connected Friday. Switzerland connected 19 June and Hungary connected 23 June are Clarke's different assignments.

Scotland person ne'er gone beyond nan opening group shape astatine a awesome tourney and picked up conscionable 1 constituent from 3 matches astatine nan delayed Euro 2020.

"The bottommost statement is we request 4 points to travel retired nan group, that guarantees that you'll travel retired of nan group almost forever," Clarke told BBC Sport. "That ever happens.

"Three points and a zero extremity quality would astir apt get retired of nan group truthful that's what we person to look astatine - each crippled successful isolation, make judge that we're competitory successful each crippled and realistically you spell into nan past crippled pinch a chance to qualify.

"Hopefully, we've done it earlier that pinch nan points tally from nan first 2 games but if we get to nan past crippled for illustration we did successful nan past tournament, we had to spell to Wembley, we had to get astatine slightest a constituent against England, we gave ourselves a chance going into nan Croatia game.

"Okay, we didn't rather get complete nan statement but astatine 1 each successful nan Croatia crippled you've sewage a chance, you've ever sewage that hope, that anticipation that you mightiness do it.

"We play against Hungary successful nan past game, that's wherever we want to beryllium - successful a akin business wherever we cognize we tin get a consequence and we tin qualify."

Clarke, who has 25 wins from his 55 matches successful complaint of Scotland, has a "fairly bully idea" of his starting line-up successful Munich.

And he said: "I've astir apt sewage 2 successful my mind that I'm still mulling complete and we'll activity connected that successful nan adjacent mates of days."

Captain Andy Robertson and Lawrence Shankland returned to training successful Garmisch-Partenkirchen aft going disconnected early during Monday's session.

Kenny McLean joined nan group aft sitting retired nan opening day, pinch Stuart Armstrong now afloat reintegrated aft moving connected his ain to retrieve his fitness.

Rangers midfielder Ryan Jack was nan only absentee.