Scotland <\/strong>have insisted they followed the “right and consistent” process in cancelling their planned behind-closed-doors friendly with Norway after criticism from the country’s manager Stale Solbakken<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game between the teams – who are both based in North Carolina for their World Cup campaigns – was planned for Monday but the Norwegian Football Federation announced on Sunday it had been called off because of injuries in the Scotland camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Solbakken had labelled Scotland as “unprofessional” over the late notice (see below), and the fact that Scotland’s team manager – not Clarke himself – had contacted them over the cancellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Midfielder John McGinn was asked about the comments on Monday and said: “Our job is to look after Scotland, Norway’s job is to look after Norway. If they’ve done their research, we lost a very important part of the squad very close to this camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “That had a huge impact on everyone. We didn’t want to lose another, we’ve had a few niggles and not everyone’s been training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Norway will be angry because they had their own plans, but if they lost Martin Odegaard or Erling Haaland they’d cancel the game too.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a separate statement, a Scottish FA spokesperson added: “The behind-closed-doors training game was organised and arranged between the respective team managers – not the head coaches – and this was the same process we followed when we regrettably had to cancel on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We have had some injuries during our previous friendlies and when it became apparent that a training game would bring greater risk than potential preparatory reward, we alerted the Norway team manager as soon as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We believe this was the right and consistent process. The game was also due to be behind closed doors and not announced publicly – so we were surprised when news of the game broke via Norwegian media.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scotland defend ‘right and consistent’ process over cancelled friendly Scotland have insisted they followed the “right and consistent” process in cancelling their planned behind-closed-doors friendly with Norway after criticism from the country’s manager Stale Solbakken. The game between the teams – who are both based in North Carolina for their World Cup campaigns – was planned for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415128,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415088\/revisions\/415128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}