Steve Clark admits Scotland's poor performance following 5-1 loss

Welcome again. Welcome to post match press conference with Scotland Manager Steve Clark. Let me again remind you that we have remote interpretation system implemented, so with scanned QR code, which is seen all over on the posters. Just download the app, choose your language and you're ready to go. Plug in your earphones. And since it's the first match day of the tournament, let me kindly remind you to please raise your hand if you want to ask questions, introduce yourself and wait for the microphone. One question only, please. And we'll start with ITFITV. Sorry, Rahman. Steve, What? Wait for the microphone, please. Thank you, Steve. How do you pick that apart in terms of why it went so wrong tonight? Difficult night. Obviously we didn't play. Difficult night. Obviously we didn't play to our standard. And I thought the German team were excellent. Yeah, anymore, yes, the the mid, like in the dressing room. After that, obviously it's not going to be assessed by this game solely. How do you pick the players up going into two very important games? How do you think the mood was disappointed, Feel as though we've let yourself down. We're better than that. We're a better team than that. We showed tonight and hopefully we can show that in the next two games. So we have to go away. This is always going to be a tough night for us to get something. We need 4 points from the next two games and that's what we focus on. Yeah, anymore. Yeah. First row here. It's your toughest night as Scotland manager now. I've had tough nights before. I'll get over it. When the players go over it, they let themselves go over this quickly. One question, please. I would think so. I would think so. And I've never doubted my players. Never, ever. Hi, Rex Elmare 93 Mint. What would you like to say to the fans of Scotland? Thank you so much. Keep the faith. See you the next game. Last three questions please. Martin, your hand up third row, please here, Steve, the UEFA stats say Germany had nineteen shots. Scotland didn't have any, even though you scored is is, is that the sort of in terms of while you've been manager, the sort of the the least sort of the the the worst game in a way in terms statistically that you you can imagine? What's the question is that the is that in terms of the the statistics not even having a single shot? Is that the since you've been Scotland manager? Is that the the I tend not to look at statistics now. It's not something I look at straight after a game, but somebody told me their expected goal was less than two. Don't know if that's true, but that's what I heard. So it tells you how clinical the German team were with the chances they got. Yeah, here Steve. Steve obviously came up against a brilliant Germany team tonight. But amongst everything else, are you disappointed you just couldn't find a way to stay in the fight? Listen, the the game ran away from us very quickly. Obviously conceding the third with the with the sending off as well was always going to make it a difficult night. After that was it was about damage limitation and and seeing what we could get. second-half. I thought the boys gave everything to code. They worked ever so hard to try and keep the score line reasonable. But we have to we have to move on from this one and we have to move on quickly. Yeah, 4th row please. Last question. Thank you. Thank you. Harit Atrium from Romania. I would like to know, despite the loss, there are any aspects of the team performance, especially taking into account we you score a goal that you would like to build the next two matches on that? No, no. Next two matches we have to play much better aspects. You want to change? Sorry. Yeah, we'll go away. We'll analyse the game like we always do. And then we'll decide. We'll have a look more work on Switzerland and then we'll we'll shape our team to to shoot that game. Yeah. Is this working? I can hear you, Steve. At one point in the match and you you had a angry exchange of words with your coach, Austin McPhee. What were the reasons for that exchange of words? And have you have you managed to smooth it over and patch it up since then? Is that a serious question? Yeah, we're fine. I don't even remember it. We're fine. OK. It's emotional on the touchline now. Come on. Go on, Steve. Difficult selection decisions tonight. Was it difficult to leave out Billy Gilmore from the starting 11? Of course it was. It would have been difficult to leave anybody at the starting 11. Thank you. Thanks, Keith, go to to leave Billy out. Steve, do you think it impacted because, you know, part of the, the, the battle against Germany is trying to not let them have the ball by not playing Billy in there. Do you think that that worked against us? I thought Germany were excellent. We couldn't get a foothold in the game. I'm not too sure it would have made any difference, but we'll find out. Thank you. No problem.