Scottish Football Association chief executive Ian Maxwell believes the national team will benefit from their first tournament experience in over two decades. Steve Clarke led Scotland to the delayed 2020 European Championship this summer, the first major tournament the country reached since the 1998 World Cup finals in France. However, Maxwell took the positives from the experience and believes the Scotland squad will too. He said: "Croatia probably outplayed us a bit at times and showed a bit of tournament know-how that we probably didn't have. "Whereas we put so much into the Czech game because it was the first game, so much into the England game because it is England and it means so much and it was a great result.

Source: Sky sports July 20, 2021 19:18 UTC