Norway boss brands Scotland's Clarke 'unprofessional'

"I don't think the injuries they're blaming came from the last training session. That's not the case. It's disappointing. It's unprofessional.

"But we have to live with that. That's why we adjusted a bit in the game."

Norway kick-off their Group I campaign against Iraq next Tuesday, three days after Scotland face Haiti in Group C.

The Scots played their final public preparation game on Saturday, when they defeated Bolivia 4-0, with Clarke utilising most of his squad.

However, Norway's team manager, former Fulham defender Brede Hangeland, said they had based their World Cup preparations on the closed-doors friendly "for many months" before arriving at their base in Greensboro, about 90 miles from Scotland's training camp in Charlotte.

"It is embarrassing to cancel it a couple of days before," he added. "We can't do anything about it.

"We just have to forget about it and make the best of it. But there has been a lot of organisation, agreements and gentlemen's agreements and then suddenly they don't want to.

"I think that was weak, so to speak."