Plotting Scotland’s route to the Euro 2020 final

Euro 2016 was the first time the European Championships were extended to 24 teams, and Euro 2020 has kept the same format.

Most Scotland fans are just happy they made it through an exhausting qualifying process to get back to a finals.

Should Scotland top Group D, their last-16 tie would be at Wembley, but the bad news is they would face the runner-up in Euro 2020’s ‘Group of Death’, which contains France, Germany, Portugal and Hungary.

If, as expected, they top their section, then Scotland would be looking at a match with Sweden, Poland or Slovakia.

Scotland will have to wait until after all the group games are completed on 23 June to find out where they would rank among the third-place sides, and therefore where they are going next.

A long trip to Baku awaits the winners, where there is a possibility of a clash with Wales should they finish runners-up in Group A and then take care of the runners-up in Group B.

There are lots of ifs and buts, but Scotland could meet the Auld Enemy England again 15 days after facing off at Wembley in the group stage.

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