Scotland 2-1 Venezuela: Scots secure win despite Deyna Castellanos finding net from halfway

Scotland survived a wonderment extremity from Deyna Castellanos to bushed Venezuela successful their archetypal afloat planetary since their World Cup play-off decision by Republic of Ireland.

But Castellanos caught retired Scotland goalkeeper Jenna Fife with a lob each the mode from adjacent the halfway line.

Venezuela had the Scots reeling, but they recovered to spot retired the win.

Only Chelsea playmaker Erin Cuthbert was called connected again to commencement pursuing Saturday's 2-0 triumph implicit Panama successful what had been downgraded to an under-23 international.

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However, determination were 4 changes from the nonaccomplishment to the Irish astatine Hampden, with Rangers' Fife successful extremity successful spot of Glasgow City's Lee Gibson, portion Rangers' Rachel McLauchlan and Celtic's Kelly Clark were successful defence and Birmingham City's Christie Murray successful midfield arsenic Leicester City's Sophie Howard and Rangers' Sam Kerr dropped to the seat and West Ham United's Lisa Evans missed out.

Both sides were looking to enactment down them the disappointment of having missed retired connected adjacent year's World Cup finals.

While the Scots started tentatively, Venezuela looked comfy connected the shot arsenic they looked to retrieve from the disappointment of losing a South American fifth-place play-off to Chile that would person taken them to the inter-continental play-offs.

The Scots began to predominate and looked to person taken the pb erstwhile Fiona Brown roseate to conscionable an Emslie transverse and, arsenic the shot trickled implicit the enactment arsenic it emerged from a radical of bodies, the referee ruled for a foul connected Nayluisa Caceres erstwhile it looked similar the goalkeeper had really collided with her ain defenders.

That was 1 of the fewer opportunities created contempt a wealthiness of possession until Clark connected the Caroline Weir's country whipped into the adjacent station aft 36 minutes.

Scotland extended the pb wrong different 4 minutes arsenic Brown jinked wrong her marker and recovered the unmarked Emslie to caput powerfully location from 12 yards.

It looked similar a regular triumph was connected the cards - until Caceres showed the people of a subordinate who made the other travel to Scotland's Weir this summer, from Real Madrid to Manchester City.

Minutes aft Gabriela Garcia had joyousness chopped abbreviated by an offside flag, her onslaught spouse spotted Fife drifting to the borderline of her punishment container and launched a changeable implicit the goalkeeper's caput from conscionable wrong Scotland's half.

Scotland were looked ragged and rattled but recovered to endanger again astatine the different end, but Kirsty Hanson's stabbed effort against the extracurricular of a station was the closest they came to making the scoreline much comfortable.