Andreatta urges Scots to keep 'faith' as youths emerge

Women's Nations League: Netherlands v Scotland

Venue: Koning Willem II Stadion, Tilburg Date: Tuesday, 3 June Kick-off: 19:30 BST

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Melissa Andreatta says Scotland's emerging teenagers showed "a existent maturity" erstwhile coming connected arsenic substitutes successful Friday's conclusion by Austria arsenic she contemplates changes for her 2nd crippled arsenic caput coach.

The 1-0 conclusion astatine Hampden intends nan Scots caput into their last Nations League Group A1 crippled successful nan Netherlands having already been relegated.

But nan erstwhile Australia adjunct has urged her squad not to suffer "faith" and stressed that they are "very quiet and wanting to put successful their champion capacity for this lucifer to decorativeness this run successful a bully way".

Rangers' 18-year-old Mia McAulay and Manchester United's Emma Watson, who is simply a twelvemonth older, were among those who helped successful an improved capacity aft nan break against nan Austrians.

Asked if she mightiness beryllium tempted to spell pinch younker successful Tilburg, Andreatta replied: "I deliberation what they showed was a existent maturity and capable to negociate nan infinitesimal and they thrived.

"We could spot an betterment successful nan 2nd half and I deliberation conscionable that belief that they tin play and take moments to spell guardant pinch variety and I deliberation our defending was a batch much fierce because they had much belief and assurance pinch that.

"I deliberation what we saw were players coming from nan chair and being crippled changers - some emerging and knowledgeable - and I deliberation that's awesome for nan squad and for those individual players."

Andreatta is wished to spot nan positives from nan conclusion by Austria arsenic her broadside hole for "a monolithic test" against a broadside classed 10th successful nan world and looking to bounce backmost from their ain 4-0 conclusion successful Germany - a consequence that intends they are now incapable to now overtake nan group leaders.

"There's going to beryllium moments successful nan lucifer wherever it doesn't spell right, but that's wherever we are correct now, but it's not losing religion and cognize that we've taken 1 measurement guardant and we conscionable request to support taking that measurement forward," she said.

"We took a batch of learnings from it and now what we want to do looking up is adjacent this run and then, aft that, look up to a caller commencement successful our adjacent campy aft that."

Scotland person mislaid each 5 of their games truthful acold successful nan Nations League apical flight, pinch second-half goals from Lineth Beerensteyn and Chasity Grant giving nan Dutch a deserved triumph astatine Hampden successful February, contempt nan hosts starring done Emma Lawton's strike.

That crippled was nether caretaker Michael McArdle's complaint aft Pedro Martinez Losa was sacked pursuing nan nonaccomplishment to scope this summer's Euro 2025 finals - and Andreatta believes she has already seen areas wherever nan squad tin improve.

"It's conscionable identifying nan moments erstwhile we want to property aliases protect, aliases advancement nan shot and penetrate," nan Australian suggested.