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Manchester United’s James Scanlon suffered a disappointing night time as his Gibraltar facet was thrashed 0-7 by Croatia within the World Cup qualifiers.
Scanlon performed all the 90 minutes for his nationwide workforce and was making his 13th international appearance.
He has been in prolific goalscoring type this season, scoring a extremely impressive 22 goals in 33 matches for the academy.
Sadly, he couldn’t carry his type into this match in what was an extremely robust project
Taking part in the 2018 World Cup finalists was at all times going to be a frightening job however Scanlon was barely within the sport, being given a 5.4 ranking from Sofascore.
He did make one key cross within the match within the uncommon moments that the Gibraltarians obtained ahead.
Nonetheless, he was solely in a position to full eight of his 16 passes within the match as most of his work was off the ball.
Scanlon was unsuccessful in his three dribble makes an attempt and was not in a position to full any of his three crosses throughout a irritating night time of motion.
The United academy expertise didn’t have any extra luck in his defensive effort, dropping all seven floor duels that he competed for.
He was extra aggressive within the air nevertheless, successful considered one of his two aerial battles.
The teen additionally made one clearance from a Croatian assault.
Regardless of the end result and poor efficiency, enjoying towards such seasoned worldwide veterans will solely assist his improvement.
Going up towards the likes of the skilled Ivan Perisic will little doubt help his progress in the long term, even when there may be some short-term ache like final night time.
Gibraltar sit backside of their group with zero factors from their opening three matches.
Scanlon will conclude this spherical of worldwide fixtures when his facet journey to the Faroe Islands on Monday night. He’ll hope he can have far more attacking pleasure towards considerably weaker opposition than the Croats.
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