He had more to say. "They won every second ball, they won every challenge," he said of Ireland. Yet more devastating criticism of his own team. "We started playing long balls, which we didn't work on, to a striker that was isolated, which is completely the wrong thing to do." He remarked that the Scotland fans were right to boo the players off the pitch. And there was this: "Their fans lifted them and I don't know if we hid away from that…"
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