All six qualifiers take place over the next few months, with automatic qualification or a play-off place determined by November.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s only defeat in the previous World Cup qualifying campaign came in Copenhagen, with the Danes topping the group by four points.<\/p>\n
As runners-up, Clarke’s side were then denied in a play-off semi-final at home to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The former West Bromwich Albion, Reading and Kilmarnock manager admits it’s a challenging group, predicting a tight race.<\/p>\n
“Three good sides,” he said. “Denmark are obviously an established pot one team. They’ve been known to get to the later stages of tournaments. <\/p>\n
“We saw Greece at Hampden in March [a 3-0 defeat]. We know they’re a good team and they’re probably a team that’s on the ascendancy, coming up the way.<\/p>\n
“So they’re maybe one of the more difficult pot two teams and Belarus are a strong pot four team. We know it’s a tough section where the teams can all take points off each other.<\/p>\n
“It’s another opportunity. It’s a tournament we haven’t been at for a long, long time. <\/p>\n
“We believe that this group of players and this group of coaches can deliver, so that’s what we have to try and do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All six qualifiers take place over the next few months, with automatic qualification or a play-off place determined…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-200513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115148068228192473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}