Scotland were "outfought" and simply "not good enough" in their 2-1 Nations League defeat by Slovenia, says captain Andy Robertson. Having won in North Macedonia on Saturday, Sebastien Pocognoli's side were favourites to back that up with another victory at Hampden Park. The Scots led at half-time through Ryan Christie's close-range backheel, but were alarmingly open defensively and second-half goals from Danijel Sturm and Aljosa Matko turned the game on its head.
"Not good enough," Robertson told BBC Sport Scotland. "We didn't do the good things we did on Saturday, I don't know what that's down to. They caused us a lot of problems and we have to find the reasons why.
Slovenia come from behind to beat ramshackle Scotland How promotion, relegation and knockouts work in Nations League Subscribe to our dedicated Scotland page "We wanted to kick on from Saturday because we had a really positive feeling about what we're doing and where we're going. "It's been a long camp, I don't know if it was down to tiredness, but Slovenia have played the same amount of games as us. They looked a lot fresher, more hungry.
"As Scotland, we might lack quality or make mistakes, but I don't think people accept being outfought. I think that's what happened tonight." Pocognoli echoed his captain's assessment that Scotland were well below par. "We didn't deserve to get the win, that's the reality," he said.
"On the ball we were not clever enough. We were far from strong enough in the duels. "The reality is each game teaches us some information.
We will try to go through the process we want and learn from this one and do better in the next one." When Pocognoli took over as Steve Clarke's successor in August, the Belgian was clear he would try to take Scotland in a new direction. He promised a more aggressive, more attacking style and called up several new faces - Josh McPake made his debut against Slovenia, following Stephen Welsh, Robbie Ure, Luis Binks and Luke Graham in the three previous fixtures. Scotland should have won in Slovenia in Pocognoli's first match in charge, which ended in a goalless draw, before Jack Hendry's early red card hamstrung them in a 3-0 home defeat by Switzerland.
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