Scotland 1-1 Switzerland
Scotland registered their first point of the 2024 European Championship after a 1-1 draw with Switzerland in Cologne.
The suspension of Ryan Porteous opened up a chance for Grant Hanley before Billy Gilmour earned a start ahead of Ryan Christie, while veteran Xherdan Shaqiri returned from the Swiss win at Hungary and replaced Kwadwo Duah.
Steve Clarke's men didn't take long to hit the ground running and were ahead in the 13th minute after Scott McTominay embarked on a forward run to fire in Connor McGregor's cross.
The Swiss remained composed despite falling behind so early in the proceedings, and hit the leveller before the half-hour mark when Shaqiri volleyed in first-time from a stray pass by Anthony Ralston.
With the match level, both teams went looking for the winner throughout the course of proceedings but had great difficulty to get any clear sight to rattle the back of the net.
Switzerland did have the ball in the net with just under ten minutes to go through a deft finish from Breel Embolo, but he was deemed to have strayed offside and saw the strike disallowed.
As the winner proved elusive, the spoils were shared between the protagonists – leaving the Scots to their maiden point of the tournament.
Croatia 2-2 Albania
Croatia and Albania collected their first point in the 2024 European Championship and kept their campaigns alive following a thrilling 2-2 draw in Group B on Wednesday.
Josip Juranovic, Ivan Perisic, Bruno Petkovic were back in from Croatia's 3-0 loss to Spain, replacing Josip Stanisic, Marin Pongracic and Ante Budimir, whereas Albania named two changes to the team that started the loss to Italy in Qazim Laci and Manaj.
Vatreni were stunned past the opening ten minutes when a curling ball over the top of the defence invited Laci to sneak in behind and head through the downward Dominik Livakovic.
The Albanian continued to have their tails up thereafter and actually headed to the break with the lead as the Vatreni battled a comeback.
Indeed, there were a response from the Vatreni albeit in the closing exchanges where Andrej Kramric pulled to the edge of the six-yard area and applied an expertly near post finish.
Croatia bagged a second in the space of minutes as substitute Budimir's snap shot in the box saw Klaus Gjasula helped the effort past his own goalkeeper and into the net.
The midfielder made amends for the unfortunate turn of events and went on to grab the equaliser with a telling shot underneath a diving Livakovic at the death, as it finished 2-2.
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