Scotland beaten by Morocco after two penalty appeals denied

I thought we were good. Terrible start but the reaction to that was good. We had to dig in for five or 10 minutes just to get our feet in the game.

Once we were in the game, we showed we could cause them problems. The disappointment would be that we didn’t create the one clear cut chance that would have got us the point.

This group of players, this squad, have shown that [resilience] in abundance over the years. They’re in there, their flat, disappointed, but we’ve got another chance.

Everybody is talking about the Scott McTominay [penalty incident]. I actually looked at the John McGinn one, which was 50-50. Some referees would give it, some don’t. Sometimes VAR will get involved.

I was a little bit disappointed in the last man foul [from Diop on Adams]. For me, Che might be clear through on goal. On another day, you might get those decisions.

This team are ready to go again. We’re here to try and do what no Scottish team has done before. We gave it everything tonight, and we’ll try and do it again.

We had the worst possible start, we didn’t touch the ball and gave away such a slack goal.

We were growing into the game, we were starting to feel really comfortable and I thought the second half performance was outstanding even though we’ve come away with nothing.

It just shows you how difficult it is to win a game at the World Cup. I’ve seen a lot of negative stuff about winning against Haiti but this just shows you how hard it is to win games at the World Cup.

I’m delighted at the response but gutted with the result, the performance probably deserved a point.

Had we played another five minutes, we might just have had them.

It’s frustrating. The start to the game wasn’t exactly how we planned it. It would have been easy to chase the game and get a bit disjointed. But we limited them to very little second half and started to play our football.

It just wasn’t to be.

I’ve thought the one on McGinn could have been a penalty, I had a good view of that. There wasn’t many fouls getting given out there, to be honest.

We need to take confidence. The immediate feeling is frustration and disappointment. This group of boys will bounce back, we’re so together.

Just a few rotations to freshen it up a little bit.

It was a big shift in the first game, it’s going to be a big shift tonight.

In your head as a coach you’re always trying to second guess what might happen in a game, someone like Ben [Gannon-Doak] coming on in the second half can be really valuable for us.

Morocco are one of the favourites for the tournament, they’ll aim to be in the last four. We need to be as good as we can be with the ball, and as good as we can without the ball. Big ask for the players, but they’ll be ready.

We just focus on this game, play as well as we can and hopefully the football gods are smiling on us.

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