ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/6/16/622fa2e3-460a-49b7-9995-46bc4ade7e64.jpgScotland head coach Steve Clarke:
"Disappointing night. We got a lot of things wrong and we've got to put it right in the next game.
"Try not to concede five goals. Give a better message.
"If I could criticise myself, and I always criticise myself, I start with myself, I maybe gave too much information, which maybe clouded the players a bit on the pitch in terms of what we do with the ball and what we do without the ball.
"So we can work on that and we have worked on that a bit this morning. We'll work on it in the next two days."
"You'll find out on Wednesday night, sorry to revert to type," he says on any team-selection dilemmas he may now have.
On if we can expect changes he follows up with, "You can expect if you want."
"I've spoken to one or two players around the squad whose opinion I value.
"I had a good chat with a few of them.
"I had a little chat with a lot of them on the training pitch this morning.
"Just to try to put one or two things in their head about things they maybe didn't do on the pitch that they should have done."
"Hopefully we can get all things right on Wednesday and you go home upset and not me," Clarke says to a Swiss journalist in attendance.
ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/6/16/7fbded18-5ac2-46a5-a8df-df81dfe2a7eb.jpg"In a way we are lucky. We have an extra day, having played on Friday, to let them clear their heads.
"We've definitely got away from that," he adds on Scotland now conceding more goals than we'd been used to.
On how his side can get back to that style of play, he adds: "Good information from the coaching staff. Good application from the players. It sounds simple to say that, but that's how it is.
"There are no excuses when you lose a game 5-1. You have to take all the criticism that comes, you have to respond," he continues.
"The good thing for me is that we've been in this position before, I've always responded pretty well, this group of players have always responded well. So that's what we try to do.
On any comparisons to be drawn between the second game of these EUROs and the previous international, he adds: "We had to go to the second game at the last Euros with a similar idea.
"We still had an outside chance with the goal difference. This time, that little safety net is gone.
"We know that, so we have to get four points in the next two games."
A question is asked about Ryan Porteous and how he has been since Friday night.
"He hasn't been sent off for a couple of years, Ryan. He's been great for us since I gave him his chance in Ukraine," says Clarke.
"The other night he was trying to stop a clear goalscoring opportunity. He definitely went in too hard and we're all pleased that Gundolan has no lasting damage.
"It is something Ryan will learn, but it was an honest challenge to try to get the ball. I wouldn't be too hard on him."
ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/6/16/a16c98b6-9254-433a-8d7d-260d08f9e22d.jpg"They understand they have let everybody down, they are disappointed, but they know they have to be ready for the next game - that's the nature of being involved in football," he says.
On his role in the squad's togetherness: "Kicking a couple of backsides, giving a couple of cuddles, getting them together as a group and making them understand why we had that performance on Friday night and making sure we don't have that performance again.
"I'm always confident in my players and always confident in myself."
Clarke reckons there is a sense of understanding about what went wrong on Friday night.
He said: "We know what went wrong. I've spoken to the players about what I feel was wrong from my side, and what I gave them.
"I think their interpretation of what we asked them to do was wrong, so we've worked on that.
"To be honest, we haven't finished with that. We've got another pre-dinner meeting - the post-dinner meeting will be about Switzerland.
"We're still tidying up the loose ends of a really bad night."
Clarke on Group A's other teams, Switzerland and Hungary.
"We saw two good teams," he said.
"The Swiss were excellent in the first half and the Hungarians came back into it in the second.
"We know they will be two tough matches.
"Hopefully, you will see Scotland with more of the ball and creating opportunities at the other end of the pitch."
ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/6/16/a6b2aecf-0eb9-4a1c-ae11-a6c01ee72773.jpg"We believe in ourselves. There's no danger of that," Steve Clarke continues.
"We know it was a bad night. We have to accept all the criticism that comes our way and then we have to put it right.
"To be in football, you have to be very resilient.
On Ryan Porteous, he again adds: "He was one of my cuddles. It is not a good look. He is very down, but we'll pick him back up."
When quizzed by a Swiss journalist for his thoughts on them after yesterday, he adds: "Very good. If you go back to the qualifying campaign, it was a bit of a struggle for the Swiss.
"They probably didn't play as well as they can.
"People always look at the Swiss and think they are a smaller footballing nation, but they are always there at the major tournaments.
"So when it comes to tournament football, a little like Germany, they were on it - the same with the Swiss team.
"They know how to survive in tournaments and they are a nation we have to learn from."
"Their captain, their leader, Granit Xhaka, is very important," says Clarke
"He is a key player and makes the team tick, not dissimilar to what Toni Kroos for Germany.
"We have a lot of respect for the players, a good team, a tough opponent."
"We can still do it [qualify]. We can still achieve that."
On that moment with Austin MacPhee, he adds: "Austin just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time after we took a short free-kick rather than getting the ball into the box, as we did when we scored the goal.
"It wasn't Austin's fault, because the players make the decision on the pitch and we got counter-attacked and I'm thinking we've lost enough goals, Austin, we don't need to lose any more.
"Then we just had a little discussion about it.
"He's got long blonde hair, but I'm not going to give him a cuddle!"
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