In The Scottish Sun, Andy Devlin writes:
Gordon Strachan’s Bravehearts refused to buckle as Martin O’Neill’s men deployed brutal bully boy tactics.
He also quotes Scotland captain Scott Brown, who believes that his side were the "better team from start to finish".
I think Ireland’s game-plan was to try and stop us playing football. But it didn’t work.
We still managed to get the ball down in tight situations and knock nice little one-twos and create chances.
Were Ireland lucky to finish with 11 men? I don’t know.
There were a few rough tackles but I didn’t get a good eye on them. I think Ireland came up with a plan where they tried to play from back to front.
The tried to impose their game-plan, but we kept trying to get the ball down and play.
Did we deserve to win? Yeah. Definitely.
I think we were the better team from start to finish
The Daily Record say that Shaun Moloney's goal came from a pre-planned set-piece move. Though "It went in zero times" in training during the week.
Graham Spiers for the Herald Scotland thought that the Irish fans really brought the atmosphere.
At international level neither Scotland nor Ireland are overly blessed with fragrant skills and, maybe because of that, this match was gripping to watch. In a passionate arena, heightened by carousing Irish fans, the play teemed from end to end, with both sides inflicting their moments of menace.
He also added that the Scots were "out-sung by a booming Irish choir all night".
In The Telegraph, Roddy Forsyth thought that Ireland were harking back to the days of Big Jack with their style of play.
With half an hour gone, it could be said fairly that this Republic side looked as though it had borrowed from the Jack Charln [sic] playbook – keep the opposing back line on the turn, harry and ambush the other midfield as it pressed upfield and close down attackers as swiftly as possible.
Like Spiers, Foryth too commented on the Irish support saying:
It became clear long before kick-off that there was an Irish support well in excess of the 3,200 tickets allocated to the visitors
