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‘Outfought’ and ‘not good enough’ – Robertson on Scotland defeat

Scotland were "outfought" and simply "not good enough" in their 2-1 Nations League defeat by Slovenia, says captain Andy Robertson.Having won in North Macedonia on Saturday, Sebastien Pocognoli's side were favourites to back that up with another victory at Hampden Park.The Scots led at…

‘Outfought’ and ‘not good enough’ – Robertson on Scotland defeat
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Scotland were "outfought" and simply "not good enough" in their 2-1 Nations League defeat by Slovenia, says captain Andy Robertson.Having won in North Macedonia on Saturday, Sebastien Pocognoli's side were favourites to back that up with another victory at Hampden Park.The Scots led at…

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"The whole team."We didn't do the good things we did on Saturday, I don't know what that's down to.

They caused us a lot of problems and we have to find the reasons why.Slovenia come from behind to beat ramshackle ScotlandHoneymoon over as Pocognoli's Scotland suffer domestic disharmonyHow promotion, relegation and knockouts work in Nations League"We wanted to kick on from Saturday because we had a really positive feeling about what we're doing and where we're going.

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We didn't do that."It's been a long camp, I don't know if it was down to tiredness, but Slovenia have played the same amount of games as us.

They looked a lot fresher, more hungry."As Scotland, we might lack quality or make mistakes, but I don't think people accept being outfought.

I think that's what happened tonight."Pocognoli echoed his captain's assessment that Scotland were well below par."We didn't deserve to get the win, that's the reality," he said.

"On the ball we were not clever enough.

We were far from strong enough in the duels."The reality is each game teaches us some information.

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We will try to go through the process we want and learn from this one and do better in the next one."When Pocognoli took over as Steve Clarke's successor in August, the Belgian was clear he would try to take Scotland in a new direction.He promised a more aggressive, more attacking style and called up several new faces – Josh McPake made his debut against Slovenia, following Stephen Welsh, Robbie….

"I think that period of grace is now over."That was as poor a Scotland performance as I can remember for a while against an opposition you are expecting us to go and beat."Slovenia got in behind Scotland's high defensive line repeatedly and former national team captain Willie Miller is unsure if Pocognoli will stick with his back three."This is Pocognoli's preferred system and he's had time to work with the….

Does he just bin it?

Are we back to a back four?"His preferred system is a back three, but it was unbelievably poor."Send your views on the Scotland football team Scotland were "outfought" and simply "not good enough" in their 2-1 Nations League defeat by Slovenia, according to captain Andy Robertson.

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