After their Euro 2020 hopes were left by their reduction to Russia in tatters scotland captain Andrew Robertson fumed in his team-mates.
Despite having a 10th-minute lead through John McGinn, Scotland were defeated with goals in each half by Artem Dzyuba plus a second-half own goal by Stephen O’Donnell, making them six points away from the second qualifying spot in Group I – and with Belgium to pay a go to to Hampden Park on Monday night, live on Sky Sports.
Robertson took aim at his side response to their glowing start at Hampden Park, declaring he had”never seen anything like” the way he felt his nation froze after netting the opener.
“There is frustration, annoyance, everything that goes along with this,” he told Sky Sports. “You’ll feel it from the racks and we have just got ourselves to blame for this, they have every right. It wasn’t great enough.
“First 15 minutes I thought we had been good, got the target and it had been like it frightened us, I’ve never seen anything like this before. That needs to change, it ought to be a positive not a negative If we go into a lead.
“I’m annoyed with everything. My operation, what the rest of the lads done, all except David Marshall people. To get 10 players from the start not really showing up and putting in the performances we could is never likely to win you a game of soccer.”
Goalscorer McGinn put the blame at a lack of opinion among the Scotland players, who have not qualified for a championship of any kind and sacked Alex McLeish to this effort.
“This was a combination of things, perhaps we lacked a little belief and that’s not okay,” he said. “We’ve to think we could proceed and make it 2-0 and 3-0 as if we don’t do that we aren’t likely to create any tournaments. We all know we are able in there and that’s the frustrating thing.
“All of the boys have been gutted. We know we have awakened and we know what we have to improve on and, if it happens againwe will be in better position to fix it.”
Manager Steve Clarke shared his captain’s fortune, lamenting how Scotland”froze” later McGinn’s purpose, and stated it had made their own showdown with world No 1 rated Belgium a must-win game if they still harbour hopes of qualifying for next year’s finals.
He explained:”We started the game so well, got ourselves ahead and froze. We couldn’t believe we were in front, nearly. We gave the momentum to them and took our foot off the gas. It is a disappointing result after such a bright start.
“If you are likely to qualify you have to turn up at the big games and the big nights. It is a night we had to flip upward, we did in the beginning and were at the match at the beginning but when it goes 2-1 the momentum swings, we risk a good deal, put some strain on but that the Russians were always a danger on the counter and we all had to be wary of that.
“Now it’s about becoming the lads positive and up for the game on Monday. It’s nearly a must-win. That is the scenario, we’ve placed ourselves in a difficult place in the category. We have got to find something, and if we have three points it would surely give us a chance of getting through.”

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