{"id":1571,"date":"2025-11-19T22:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:22:35","slug":"key-questions-now-scotland-are-going-to-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Key questions now Scotland are going to the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Make your own mind up on this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three host nations automatically enter pot one, and it goes without saying, they are the three weakest &#8211; given the other nine are the best in the business. We&#8217;re due a kind draw too, surely?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, naturally, Scotland would like to draw one of the USA, Canada and Mexico. Let&#8217;s just hope it goes better than the last time we faced a host nation at a major tournament&#8230; Ah, Munich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wee look at pot two, though, and there are some decent outfits in there. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland can only play one other European nation in the groups, so there is a fair chance Morocco, Colombia, Uruguay, Japan, Senegal, Iran, South Korea, Ecuador and Australia could lie in wait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It might be best to swerve the European trio in that pot: Croatia, Switzerland and Austria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A hefty portion of pot four is still TBC. Imagine having to go through the play-offs? Wouldn&#8217;t be us&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your own mind up on this one. The three host nations automatically enter pot one, and it goes without saying, they are the three weakest &#8211; given the other nine are the best in the business. We&#8217;re due a kind draw too, surely? So, naturally, Scotland would like to draw one of the USA,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}