Scotland vs Switzerland LIVE: Euro 2024 team news, line-ups and ...

A reminder of the match report from a sobering opening night for the Tartan Army.

Is it too soon for the meme from Trainspotting? It feels like it should be too soon for the meme from Trainspotting. But after Scotland made the worst possible start to their Euro 2024 campaign, in a nightmare opening defeat to the hosts Germany in Munich, Ewan McGregor’s Renton may have an addition to his iconic monologue on Scottishness. Scotland never win anything, we are the lowest of the low, and after 45 minutes of their biggest game in 26 years, we head into half time three goals down, a player down, no shots, no corners, no nothing. Thank you Antonio Rudiger, you are our only hope.

A consolation own goal from the Germany centre back was celebrated by the tremendous Tartan Army, but Scotland played with the eyes of the world on them and were humiliated 5-1. Still, it could have been worse. Anything remains possible in Group A, which for Scotland may be the only positive of a literally sobering night where Germany continued their party and the Tartan Army’s came crashing down, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over them.

Scotland took 200,000 to Germany, filling Munich with all the misguided hopes and dreams and belief in the world, and then watched it all melt away as a young, hungry Germany side ripped Steve Clarke’s team apart with speed, intensity and a quality of play that was simply beyond them.

The second game of the day has finished in Stuttgart, and Germany are going through to the last 16 after a 2-0 win against Hungary.

Match report to follow!

Billy Gilmour and Grant Hanley start for Scotland as Steve Clarke makes two changes from the Germany defeat. Switzerland make one change, and it’s not Breel Embolo. Instead, Xherdan Shaqiri starts in place of Kwadwo Duah.

Scotland XI: Gunn; Hendry, Hanley, Tierney; Ralston, Gilmour, McGregor, Robertson; McGinn, McTominay; Adams

Switzerland XI: Sommer; Schar, Akanji, Rodriguez; Widmer, Xhaka, Freuler, Aebischer; Ndoye, Shaqiri, Vargas

Scotland fans marched in their thousands to Stadion Cologne, where the game will be played on a warm night.

Germany are currently beating Hungary 2-0 in the other match of Group A, which is good news for Scotland.

Ideally, Hungary go into final fixture on zero points.

“The first half was very bad but the second much better, which is encouraging for the match with Italy,” said Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic.

“We are still in the game, we shall prepare and do all in our power to go on.”

While Andrej Kramaric added: “This is why everyone loves football. In the last seconds, sometimes you score a goal to win, sometimes you concede.”

A Germany fan suffered a broken arm after being hit by a wayward Niclas Fullkrug shot on Friday, but the supporter is set to be back in the stands on Wednesday.

Kai Flathmann was struck during the warm-up for Germany’s Euro 2024 opener against Scotland, and he was forced to watch the rest of the game from a hospital in Munich.

Flathmann, who said he spent €195 on his ticket for the Scotland game, wrote on Instagram: “Unfortunately, I could no longer watch the game live from row 1. During the warm-up, I was hit by a shot from Niclas Fullkrug.

Klaus Gjasula struck five minutes into stoppage time to rescue a 2-2 draw for Albania against Croatia in a thriller in Hamburg and keep alive their hopes of reaching the Euro 2024 knockout stages.

The 2022 World Cup semi-finalists looked to have secured a fine comeback win after Andrej Kramaric scored in the 74th minute to cancel out Qazim Laci’s early goal for Albania, then midfielder Gjasula inadvertently turned the ball past his own goalkeeper two minutes later.

But with time almost up, Albania attacked down the left and the ball was crossed to Gjasula who fired left footed into the corner to stun Croatia and set up a tense finale to Group B. After both sides lost their opening matches of the tournament, only final-game victories over Spain and Italy will likely be enough to see either qualify.

What is the early team news?

Scotland are expected to make changes and will be without Ryan Porteous after the defender’s red card against Germany. Grant Hanley will replace him in defence, while it would not be a surprise to see Billy Gilmour recalled to midfield and Lawrence Shankland may be given the chance to offer something different in attack.

Switzerland striker Breel Embolo sealed their impressive win over Hungary after coming off the bench and will be hoping to start following his return from injury but Kwadwo Duah and Michel Aebischer also scored in the win and will be hoping to keep their places.

When is Scotland vs Switzerland?

The Group A match will kick off at 8pm BST on Wednesday 19 June in Cologne.

How can I watch it?

It will be shown live on BBC One, BBC One Scotland, and BBC iPlayer, with coverage starting from 7:30pm BST. You can find a full list of which channel is showing each match here.

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