Scotland are in a very tough qualifying group for the World Cup in Qatar with teams like Israel and Austria competing for the runners-up spot.

It is evident for everyone now that the first place is going to be captured confidently by high flying Danes. In the meantime Israel, Austria and Scotland will have to battle it out between the 3 of them, who take the other ticket out of the group.

The key aspect here to consider is that the goal difference will be the tie-breaker should teams finish on level points (it becomes very likely to happen with Faroe Islands and Moldova providing points on a regular basis to whoever they face). Thus getting high margin wins, scoring as many goals as possible, in games like the one Scotland has here vs. Moldova on home soil - becomes absolutely essential.

We could already witness this approach in Israel’s recent win on the road against Faroe Islands (4-0), or the earlier Scotland home win against them with the same scoreline. Danes 8-0 demolition of the Moldovan team back in March 2021 was also no coincidence. Without a doubt, this group is one of the toughest and closely contested, so the key to success is keeping a positive goal balance.

With this strong argument in mind, we can expect Scotland not to take the foot off the pedal once going in front. There should be no holding back or slowing down from the hosting team even if they have to face Austria days later on the road.

Scotland left a good impression at the recent EURO’20 and the wild atmosphere of Hampden Park has to give them an extra boost on the pitch.

They have in-form players in the squad like Newcastle’s striker Ryan Fraser or really well performing Che Adams of Southampton. The only setback is the injury of Man Utd’s McTominay.

No need to go into details regarding the visiting Moldova team. Their squad is composed of mainly tier2 players. All of their defeats in this group campaign came with 2+ goal margins as they’ve successfully lost to all superior teams but fellow outsiders Faroe Islands.

I expect Scotland to run out of the blocks here after their setback vs. Denmark and try to secure a confident win before the big encounter against Austria on September 7th.

There are no arguments to support Moldova avoiding a heavy defeat in Glasgow.

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苏格兰在卡塔尔世界杯预选赛中处于一个非常艰难的小组，与以色列和奥地利等球队争夺亚军席位。

现在对每个人来说都很明显，第一个位置将被雄心勃勃的丹麦人自信地夺得。与此同时，以色列、奥地利和苏格兰将不得不在这三个国家之间展开竞争，这三个国家将把另一个席位从小组中拿出来。

这里需要考虑的关键方面是，如果球队以关卡积分结束比赛，净胜球的差距将成为决定胜负的关键因素(这很有可能发生在法罗群岛和摩尔多瓦，无论他们面对的是谁，它们都会定期提供积分)。因此，在苏格兰主场对阵摩尔多瓦的比赛中，获得高利润率的胜利，尽可能多的进球，成为绝对必要的。

我们可以在以色列最近客场4-0战胜法罗群岛的比赛中看到这种方法，或者在早些时候苏格兰主场以同样的比分战胜了他们。丹麦人在2021年3月以8-0击败摩尔多瓦队也不是巧合。毫无疑问，这个小组是最难对付的，竞争最激烈的，所以成功的关键是保持积极的目标平衡。

有了这个有力的论据，我们可以预期苏格兰人一旦走在前面，就不会把脚从踏板上挪开。东道主不应该有任何退缩或减速，即使他们不得不在几天后的道路上面对奥地利。

苏格兰在最近的20年欧洲杯上给人留下了良好的印象，汉普顿公园的狂野氛围给了他们在球场上额外的动力。

他们的阵容中有状态良好的球员，比如纽卡斯尔的前锋瑞安·弗雷泽，还有表现出色的南安普顿的切·亚当斯。唯一的挫折是曼联的麦克托梅内的受伤。

关于来访的摩尔多瓦队，没有必要详细说明。他们的球队主要由二线球员组成。在小组赛中，他们所有的失败都是在2个以上的进球差的情况下发生的，因为他们已经成功地输给了所有的强队，除了法罗群岛之外。

我希望苏格兰在对丹麦的失利后，能在9月7日与奥地利的比赛前，尽最大努力确保自己的胜利。

没有理由支持摩尔多瓦避免在格拉斯哥的惨败。