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McLeish confident of win

McLeish confident of win


McLeish confident of win

Alex McLeish has said that he is confident his Scotland heroes can go on to beat Georgia, and qualify for their first major tournament since 1998.

"A few games ago the headlines and attention worried me a little bit, then I thought, 'It's part of the territory and we have to handle that', and we have done that.

"The players have earned the right to be confident.

"It's not complacency, it's not conceit, it's confidence and belief but we know that we have a hard game.

"Whatever happens now they should be proud of what they have achieved."

McLeish added: "There is still a lot of work to be done. It is very close and yet very far.

"We know that at the very worst, we can take it to the last game against Italy at Hampden.

"We will try to win it within our strategy. I am not going to tell you that we are going all out for a victory or that we will attack, attack, attack the whole game.

"That could be foolish and I don't know if we are capable of doing that.

"We are capable of doing many things but it has never been in the strategy and it has served us well up this juncture.

"The Italians and French are more experienced and by rights, the two of them should be better teams than us so let's not forget that.

"It's our intention to win tomorrow night and it is our intention to qualify."