Scotland defender Grant Hanley felt squad togetherness was a key factor in their comeback against Greece at Hampden.<\/b><\/p>\n
Set-piece goals from Ryan Christie and Lewis Ferguson gave Scotland an unlikely lead after the visitors opened the scoring through Kostas Tsimikas on 62 minutes.<\/p>\n
And substitute Lyndon Dykes sealed a 3-1 victory in stoppage time to move Scotland alongside Denmark at the top of Group C after three games in the World Cup qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n
“It shows the character,” said Hanley. “There have been periods where the squad has had difficult moments but we’ve come through and got a result and it shows what the squad’s all about.<\/p>\n
“The game in the first half was probably poor, we didn’t really get to grips with it. But it was 0-0 at half-time, we had to remind ourselves of that, we were still in the game.<\/p>\n
“It probably felt like the shackles came off a bit after we conceded and we started to play. I’m not sure if we can say for certain we deserved to win the game but we stuck at it and I think that’s a reward for the togetherness of this group.”<\/p>\n
Hibernian centre-half Hanley earned his 64th cap against Greece and believes continuity is crucial.<\/p>\n
“That’s what you get when you keep a squad together,” the 33-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“Obviously there’s different players that come and go at different times but there’s certainly been a core of players there for a while now. I think that comes from the manager and the staff and what the lads want to try and create.<\/p>\n
“It was the first home game in the campaign and we need to pick up the wins at home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland defender Grant Hanley felt squad togetherness was a key factor in their comeback against Greece at Hampden.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-488816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488816","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=488816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}