Scottish golf equipment’ Euro struggles laid naked

Another week, one other miserable set of European outcomes for Scottish golf equipment.

Hearts’ 5-1 Convention League loss away to Fiorentina adopted Rangers slumping to their heaviest-ever house defeat – 7-1 to Liverpool – and Celtic happening 2-0 in Glasgow to RB Leipzig.

The Outdated Agency’s hopes of constructing it past the Champions League teams are actually over, with a Europa League spot nonetheless up for grabs however a tall order for each golf equipment.

Hearts are nonetheless within the hunt for the Convention knockout rounds, however their prospects are additionally slim.

Scotland began the season with 5 golf equipment in European competitors – Dundee United and Motherwell fell within the qualifiers – and the general stats aren’t fairly: Twenty two video games performed, 16 defeats, 4 wins, 54 targets conceded and simply 14 scored.

In the group stage it is much more galling: Ten defeats from 12 (Hearts’ 2-0 triumph at Rigas FS is the one win), six targets netted and 37 conceded.

Understandably none among this helps Scotland’s coeffiecent, the place their present rating of eighth is below extreme risk from Belgium.