Gordon Strachan
Gordon Strachan
Gordon David Strachan /ˈɡɔːrdən ˈdeɪvɪd ˈstrɑːxən/ OBEis a Scottish football manager and former player. Strachan is the manager of the Scotland national team...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 February 1957
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When you look at the games he's played, it's no real surprise. He's not missed many matches for club or country over the last couple of years and, when you look back to those games he travelled to America for recently with Bulgaria, maybe it's just all beginning to catch up with him now.
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T hey are young men and they have only played seven games this season,
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We're back in terms of freshness and imagination and touch. We were a wee bit nervy near the end when they scored but I think we all agreed the game should have been all over and done with.
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They don't need to come here and prove anything to me or anybody else. They have already proved it in the games they've played.
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He is on a good run of seven or eight games and we will keep working and speaking to Artur.
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He had a good wee spell. We have to define that. You need to look at the games themselves. People go on about the AC Milan game. He has played in different positions, all over the place, a bit like Joe Cole. We've got to make him a player.
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But I remember playing in a team which won ten games on the trot but ended up fourth. I am not saying they're going to do that, but it can happen.
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It's never good losing a player like Stan, but hopefully the rest will do him good. I think it's probably fair to say that he hasn't been as dynamic for us over recent games and, if you look at his performances, I think there's a lot there to suggest that his body has been getting tired.
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I haven't been there for a competitive game for a long time but I scored my first ever league goal there, so I have happy memories.
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It was hilarious this morning. I actually used it in my team talk. Nobody bothered one little bit. It took our minds off the game for a wee while.
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If you had said to me after those European games that we would be in this position heading into this game with Hearts, I'd have taken that,
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I don't think the squad we have at the moment is conducive to the number of games we'll play next season.
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We went a stage further than on Wednesday. Our delivery was better today, but our final touch was a problem.
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I've never thought about it that much; I just try to have a plan of how to play the game. Within that plan you have to take teams that are good at defending physically and make them think. In the first half we didn't make Hearts think enough. We made them defend physically, which they handled. We made them think more in the second half. Again, you just can't play the one way all the time. If the team you play against can get in that mentality, then all they have to do is defend. If you can make opponents think, then defend physically, then think... that is what you are trying to achieve that with your team.