New coach, new gamers, however usual failings hamper Scotland

Scotland followers got here to Hampden to welcome the brand new man, Sebastien Pocognoli, and left with all of the woes of previous weighing them down as they went.

More calamitous defending at first, one other self-inflicted wound that was an entire game-changer, one other day and not using a aim – 4 in a row now.

In the early minutes when Jack Hendry acquired himself despatched off, we might as nicely have been again amid the meltdown of Miami. Then, Scotland gifted Brazil one aim after which two after they made a fiendishly-difficult job an unattainable one on the again of slapstick in defence.

So it was once more on Tuesday. Hendry’s purple card was a grim second that sucked the life out of the event.

Switzerland do not lose many video games. Argentina had the satan’s personal job in seeing them off in extra-time on the World Cup. Germany beat them 4-3 in a pleasant, the winner solely coming within the eighty fifth minute.

They’re filled with nous and energy and perception. Their coach, Murat Yakin, has the calm authority of a person who is aware of, with absolute certainty, that his group will prevail.

Once the opening aim went in, Yakin circled in his technical space with a half-smile on his face. Job executed, already.