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FIFA World Cup qualification · 1985-11-20

Scotland2–0 Australia

Glasgow, Scotland

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Timeline

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53'GOALDavie Cooper ·

Scotland

59'GOALFrank McAvennie ·

Scotland

Starting lineups

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2Nicol 5McLeish 6Miller

3Malpas 8Strachan 4Souness 10Aitken

11Cooper 7Dalglish 9McAvennie

2Davidson 3Jennings 4Yankos

5Ratcliffe 6O'Connor 7Watson 8Murphy

9Crino 10Mitchell 11Kosmina

Scotland· Alex Ferguson

1Jim Leighton 2Steve Nicol 5Alex McLeish 6Willie Miller 3Maurice Malpas 8Gordon Strachan 4Graeme Souness 10Roy Aitken 11Davie Cooper53'7Kenny Dalglish 9Frank McAvennie59'

Australia· Frank Arok

1Terry Greedy 2Alan Edward Davidson 3Graham Jennings 4Charlie Yankos 5David Ratcliffe 6Steve O'Connor 7Joe Watson 8Kenny Murphy 9Oscar Crino 10David Mitchell 11John Kosmina

Referee Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia) · Attendance 62,329 · Hampden Park

Match sheet via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Data: Karel Stokkermans, Sergio Henrique Jarreta, RSSSF