Does it matter if Scotland lose and still make history?
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"If you look at Brazil in the last game [against Haiti] before half-time, it's 3-0," Naismith pointed out. "The game that's been on today [Spain led Saudi Arabia 3-0 after 24 minutes]... …
"If you look at Brazil in the last game [against Haiti] before half-time, it's 3-0," Naismith pointed out. "The game that's been on today [Spain led Saudi Arabia 3-0 after 24 minutes]... So there has to be a gameplan, but that doesn't mean we're sitting around in our 18-yard box for 90 minutes because taking into consideration the conditions and the opposition, it's impossible to do." The heat in Miami will be oppressive, considerably hotter than Boston. Expecting Scotland to 'go for it' like mad dogs in a meathouse betrays a serious lack of understanding of the weather here. "It's at moments in the game where we feel as if we're dominating, then we need to take risks and be ready," Naismith said. "But there's going to be hard moments where we need to set our shape and wait. "Some of their players have got similar traits to Morocco's forward players. We'll go and do what we need to do to get through the group. "That's ultimately what we're here to do. But we need to make sure we're solid because, as you've seen in some of the results, teams are ruthless when they get the opportunity. "I sat here last week and said, if we qualify out of the group, it's the first squad to do it. I think this squad deserves to do it. I think we've got the players to do it and I think we've got the manager to do it. "The magnitude of these games is definitely as [big] as any games [the players] have played in, but you know you can be punished at any one moment. …
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