Scotland should have won against Slovenia at the weekend, but were instead left to rue gilt-edged chances spurned by Oli McBurnie and Kieron Bowie.<\/p>\n
But their second-half display – on the ball and on the front foot – would have given supporters heading to Hampden cause for optimism.<\/p>\n
And yet, Hendry’s rash challenge on Dan Ndoye as he desperately tried to scramble back left Scotland only able to sit in a low block and try to restrict their opponents.<\/p>\n
“Your gameplan goes out of the window with the red card,” former Scotland defender Stephen O’Donnell said. “Good sides grind you down and pick you off, that’s what happened.”<\/p>\n
Although it was Hendry’s sending off that put Scotland on the back foot, his team-mates rallied round him post-match.<\/p>\n
“He tried to apologise to the lads, but the manager was like ‘that’s football, that happens’,” said Gunn, who would likely want at least one of the Swiss goals back.<\/p>\n
“We’re a team and we stick together. No-one’s got to apologise for anything.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland should have won against Slovenia at the weekend, but were instead left to rue gilt-edged chances spurned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}