Remembering the Last Time Scotland Beat Germany

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Published: September 5, 2014

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This Sunday, Scotland take on the might of newly crowned world champions Germany, in the first competitive showdown of both sides' Euro 2016 qualification campaign.  

Joachim Low's team will be confident of overcoming the might of Gordon Strachan's side when the two meet at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund, yet it wasn't so long ago that the Tartan Army were celebrating an unexpected victory in Germany. 

In a friendly match that went on to become one of the most surprising results of 1999, Scotland overcame their European counterparts 1-0 in Bremen, following a second-half goal from former Everton striker Don Hutchison. 



Managed by Craig Brown at the time, Scotland were certainly a more appealing team than they are now, featuring some excellent players such as David Weir, Colin Hendry, Paul Lambert and Billy Dodds; all stars who would walk into Strachan's team on Sunday in their prime. 

Quite like Darren Fletcher and Co., Brown's team travelled to the Weserstadion in Bremen that day with a point to prove. 

Scotland had just suffered another disappointing World Cup campaign the year before, finishing bottom of their group below a strong Brazil side that would go on to reach the final in France that summer, but also under teams who they really should have overcome in Morocco and Norway. 

The Czech Republic had also added to such misery recently with a well-earned 2-1 victory in Celtic Park, Glasgow, a few months before. Scotland were hurting and in desperate need of a powerful performance against the Germans. 

Alas, this struggling side would become the toast of Scotland when a lovely pull-back from Billy Dodds found Hutchison in acres of space inside the German box on the 66th minute, allowing the striker to calmly slot the ball past a bewildered Jens Lehmann for the only goal of the game. 



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