Not solely are Gordon, Kelly and Clark out at current, Robby McCrorie went down within the warm-up. All of it probability, he is the one who would have come on towards Iceland.

With Gunn and McCrorie more likely to be out of Monday’s pleasant towards Liechtenstein, too, and Slicker’s confidence by means of the ground, will Clarke flip to another person?

“You must discover out what’s within the participant’s thoughts as nicely, how he is feeling about it,” former Scotland defender Willie Miller stated of Slicker.

“What you are searching for is honesty from him. Does he really feel like he can tackle the problem within the subsequent sport, or that he would not need to?

“Does the supervisor need to take him out of the firing line?”

McKenna, 18, has extra senior expertise than Slicker, however not by a lot. He performed 9 matches for Queen’s Park within the Scottish Championship earlier than signing for Bournemouth in 2024.

He is been of their improvement squad since and has been with the Scotland group as a coaching participant for the previous week.

Given the shortage of choices, Clarke’s first telephone name is likely to be to Jon McLaughlin.

The 2-time Scotland cap, 37, solely performed one FA Cup sport for Swansea Metropolis final season and is now out of contract. However he was a squad common, is skilled, and would probably be thought of one of many most secure choices.

Dundee goalkeeper Jon McCracken was in Scotland squads in the course of the season simply gone, however was changed between at Dens Park by Trevor Carson halfway by means of the time period.

Different Scotland-based choices can be Scott Bain – not too long ago launched by Celtic – or Ross Doohan – not too long ago signed by Celtic.

MK Dons keeper Craig MacGillivray has beforehand been known as up by Clarke, too, however would seem like a good distance down the pecking order nowadays.