Scotland: Steve Clarke discusses Euro qualification, McTominay & squad selection
Steve Clarke has been reflecting on an incredible 12 months as Scotland secured their automatic qualification for Euro 2024.
They will open next summer's tournament against host nation Germany after qualifying for the tournament with two games to spare.
Attention now turns to squad selection and the hopes Scotland can make an impact in Group A, where they will also face Hungary and Switzerland.
Clarke sat down with Sky Sports to reflect on an incredible qualifying campaign, Scott McTominay's impact, his squad selection issues and much more...
How would you review the year?
Pretty decent. I think if you're a Scotland fan, you've had a good year. A lot of good matches, good memories and obviously qualification for another major tournament which is fantastic.
It looked like a tough qualifying group for Scotland, what were you thinking at the start of the campaign?
We knew that it would be a tough group. The way the fixtures fell, with three home games out of the first four fixtures, we knew the first half of the group was when we had to get the majority of the points.
It couldn't have started in a better way.
I was always pretty confident that we could get qualification but I think how we got it and the way we started the group was exceptional.
Is there one key game, or one key moment you thought this is definitely going to happen?
The night we beat Spain at Hampden if I'm being honest.
When we went into that camp I spent the first four or five days stressing to the players how important it was that we didn't drop points to Cyprus.
You've always got that little Scottish psyche, that Scottish mentality that normally we mess up in a game where we shouldn't.
So we went into that and we concentrated a lot on attacking play when we were
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