{"id":167455,"date":"2025-06-08T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167455\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:26:10","slug":"ross-doohan-could-make-scotland-debut-after-late-call-up-for-liechtenstein-game-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167455\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Doohan could make Scotland debut after late call-up for Liechtenstein game \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ross Doohan could be set for a Scotland debut in Liechtenstein after being called into Steve Clarke\u2019s squad to help solve a goalkeeping crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Aberdeen keeper has been called up along with 18-year-old Callan McKenna for Monday\u2019s friendly in Vaduz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Angus Gunn and Robby McCrorie have both withdrawn after suffering injuries at Hampden on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Those blows saw 22-year-old Cieran Slicker handed a debut in the seventh minute and the Ipswich player endured a difficult night as Scotland lost 3-1 against Iceland.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/sport\/soccer\/mauricio-pochettino-rules-himself-out-of-contention-for-tottenham-job-OX7EYM5YLBJWJM4THKIXX64A6E\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mauricio Pochettino rules himself out of contention for Tottenham job\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3L4TSCZO5JPB7P4XYNUXFWY7BQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/sport\/soccer\/sundays-briefing-tuchel-questions-england-attitude-as-son-hails-postecoglou-KPYZ6GFX3VL5NMOBL4BYI5NC44\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Sunday&#x2019;s briefing: Tuchel questions England attitude as Son hails Postecoglou\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MG4BCOLFGNJ6PN46VZVZCADXKA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Cieran Slicker struggled on his debut\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DXWCD3JFFFNXRNFPDJN6I76J3M.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"532\"\/>Cieran Slicker struggled on his debut (Andrew Milligan\/PA) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Under-21 international quickly conceded after giving the ball away himself and lost two more soft goals as he struggled with the occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With Craig Gordon, Liam Kelly and Zander Clark unavailable through injury, Clarke has turned to Doohan for experienced cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old was Aberdeen\u2019s second choice goalkeeper last season and has been tipped to return to Celtic this summer, where he would likely be third choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, he played 18 times for the Dons last season amid injuries to number one Dimitar Mitov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Doohan is approaching 200 first-team appearances having also turned out for the likes of Ayr, Ross County, Dundee United, Tranmere and Forest Green.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Squad update.<\/p>\n<p>IN: Ross Doohan &amp; Callan McKenna.OUT: Angus Gunn &amp; Robby McCrorie.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to both goalkeepers on their first senior call-ups \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIESCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LIESCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JX0jrSs5VS\">pic.twitter.com\/JX0jrSs5VS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scotland National Team (@ScotlandNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotlandNT\/status\/1931656196475212169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also won 20 caps for Scotland at youth level, the bulk of them for the Under-21s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clarke had brought McKenna into the training squad in midweek with an eye on the future after expressing concern in recent months that the long-term future of the goalkeeping department had been neglected somewhat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The teenager moved from Queen\u2019s Park to Bournemouth in February 2024 after playing nine first-team games for the Spiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kilmarnock goalkeeper McCrorie experienced a thigh problem in the warm-up on Friday, while Gunn soon suffered an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ross Doohan could be set for a Scotland debut in Liechtenstein after being called into Steve Clarke\u2019s squad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[1006,748,70012,4884,69270,712,10031,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-aberdeen","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-callan-mckenna","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ross-doohan","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114647504269909619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}