Gordon Strachan is required to keep focused as Scotland manager, BBC Sport has learned. The 58-year-old’s agreement lapsed following the Scots’ unsuccessful qualifying effort for the Euro 2016 finals in France. Scotland completed fourth in Group D and passed up a great opportunity for the play-offs, with the Republic of Ireland securing third. The SFA need Gordon Strachan to lead Scotland’s qualifying effort for the World Cup in Russia 2018 – regardless of the fact that the national group neglect to achieve the European Championships in France next summer.
The Scots confront a huge Euro 2016 qualifier against Poland at Hampden on Thursday night before wrapping up their Group D apparatuses against whipping young men Gibraltar in Faro on Sunday. Should his group neglect to achieve the play-offs, Strachan’s present contract will run out this Sunday evening. Be that as it may, SFA CEO Stewart Regan says the Hampden hierarchy have as of now seen enough improvement under the 58-year-old to offer him another arrangement.
The Scottish Football Association is required to make a formal declaration before the week’s end.
Strachan would then be attempting to lead the side to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, with England in their qualifying gathering. Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia are likewise Group F with the Scots’ first game away to the Maltese on 4 September 2016.
Before then, Strachan’s men are prone to have a progression of agreeable matches composed.
Scotland has not come to noteworthy competition finals since Craig Brown’s side went to the France 1998 World Cup. Berti Vogts, Walter Smith, Alex McLeish, George Burley and Craig Levein took after Brown in the part before previous Coventry, Southampton, Celtic and Middlesbrough supervisor Strachan was selected in January 2013. By then, Scotland were amidst the qualifying effort for the 2014 World Cup. Massacres by Wales and Serbia in Strachan’s first aggressive matches in control finished their trusts of going to Brazil however results enhanced with home and away wins against Croatia and triumph in Macedonia. The upturn stirred the country in front of the Euro 2016 qualifiers and Scotland began their crusade sensibly well with three wins and two draws from their initial six games. In any case, massacres by Georgia and Germany and a draw with Poland took them out of the running before Sunday’s gathering closer against Gibraltar in Portugal, which finished in a 6-0 win for the Scots. Strachan in this manner went to the Scotland Under-21 side’s 0-0 draw with Iceland on Tuesday, fuelling theory he would go ahead with the senior squad.
