Issues which plagued Clarke – who received rousing applause on his return to Hampden – of a lack of ruthlessness in attack and pitiful goalkeeping were on show.<\/p>\n
Oli McBurnie has surpassed 1,000 minutes \u2013 20 appearances \u2013 in a Scotland shirt without a goal. Sure, he registered his first assist \u2013 after a fashion \u2013 but appetite and workrate being his only qualities is wearing thin.<\/p>\n
As is the ease Scotland are being played through at the minute. With 10 men against Switzerland, it could be somewhat expected, but the Slovenes are hardly world-beaters themselves. Scotland made them look like it.<\/p>\n
Things were always going to be learned in this mammoth window. Perhaps most of all, is it is clear Scotland are in a state of flux. Flittering between old habits which got them so far, and teetering on the transition into the new, brave, promised world.<\/p>\n
For the first time in his tenure, Pocognoli headed off to the sound of Tartan Army boos. Unless he can come up with a solution, and swiftly, for November, it will become a more familiar soundtrack for the Belgian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Issues which plagued Clarke – who received rousing applause on his return to Hampden – of a lack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-873241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}