Steve Clarke reacts to Scotland's 3-0 defeat against Brazil — FULL Press Conference

[0:02] good evening we'll begin now this post-match press conference please remember to ask for [0:07] the microphone wait for the microphone introduce yourself remember that we have four different [0:11] languages translation and kenny miller here the team uh press officer from scotland will moderate [0:16] the press conference keith jackson from a daily record steve can ask for your opinions on the [0:24] match itself your thoughts on it and your assessment of where it leaves us now in terms [0:30] of our chances of staying in the competition disappointing performance poor result you give [0:37] a team like brazil the chances that we give them the game you expect to get punished and that's what [0:42] that's what happened uh chances at the moment i think we're probably going home gracie fisher with [0:59] the associated press over here um how difficult how difficult will it be now for your team to have to [1:05] sit back and now wait to see if where your future lies with the world cup when the first thing they've [1:13] got to do is they've got to go away and compute their performance and and why we lost the game [1:19] in the manner we did so that's the first thing we have to do and then we can worry about the rest [1:22] later i'll agree from the scottish sean steve is it the most frustrating thing they can uh how much [1:30] this was self-inflicted i think so i think so when you give listen we're playing a top quality team we [1:37] know they're deadly and attacking third of the pitch and we give them for sure the first two goals [1:45] probably the third goal as well so we gave them the goals but on the counter that they also missed a [1:49] few chances and angus had to make a few good saves so on that one on us was to try and create something [1:57] second half we got the ball in the box a number of times we created one or two chances but nothing [2:02] really clean when you look at the when you look at brazil's attacking play in the final third of [2:07] the pitch and you look at ours there's really no comparison john mcgarry from the daily mail steve [2:14] notwithstanding the the mistakes how far beneath scotland's level do you think that was that they [2:20] produced we definitely didn't play as we can play but when you put yourself in the back foot like we [2:27] did against morocco you're always just relying on a bit of grit and determination to get back into a [2:33] game against a really top opponent and we didn't manage to do that hi steve evan kane with usa today [2:40] um if you guys do manage to advance what is the message to the team to kind of eliminate the early [2:48] errors leading the goals do better that's it be better in possession take responsibility [3:08] thank you it's jose lara from channel six mexico canal six mexico we want to know what's the [3:14] possibility and that you may actually face mexico the local team of this world cup and if you do get [3:22] there how dangerous do you see javier again his team to be to yourselves it's obviously difficult [3:32] to speak about possible opponents when chiaramente è difficile parlare di possibili avversari visto che [3:40] non sono neanche sicuro che passeremo il turno è difficile parlarne il messico una buona squadra [3:45] michael grant from the times steve obviously things are pretty raw at the moment but i mean how [3:51] how do you speak to the players tonight and tomorrow in terms of like keeping their kind [3:56] of mindset just in case we do have to play again the first thing is to get over tonight [4:00] that's the first thing we'll do and then we'll wake up tomorrow we'll travel back to charlotte and [4:04] i'll probably speak to the person and get back to charlotte steve mcgown from the herald steve [4:12] when the dust settles do we need to look at wider issues in terms of technical aspects and about [4:16] athleticism is there a bigger story here i think the short answer to that is yes i think when you see the [4:24] the physicality of the power and the the technique of both morocco and and brazil you you can see [4:31] that we we have to do something about it we have to try and be uh better at producing young players [4:38] that can that can grace the world stage hi steve um good evening jane francis from niger um yesterday [4:48] at the press conference you talked about you know understanding um the what it takes to play the [4:54] brazilian team because of the quality that they have um with today's result you still stand a chance [5:00] to progress to the next round as one of the best third but do you are you convinced that you have [5:07] the quality to come to compete in the knockout stages with what you've seen tonight you always [5:14] have to be convinced that your team can compete in the knockout stage we gave morocco a really good [5:19] game uh world number six probably a very scottish thing that we managed to win the first game that [5:26] everyone said was a winnable game we managed to do that and then we well next two opponents are world [5:30] number five us are world number six and world number five but we we offer we obviously have to be better [5:35] against that type of opponent and the best way to do that is not to give them any goals steve it's not [5:41] often you seem frustrated or even angry with your players it feels like that tonight i'm definitely not [5:47] angry and i'm not prickly i think that's one of the words you like as well definitely not that either [5:54] you can finish if you want you finish your question no i was i was just i was i was going to ask you [5:58] are you i'm disappointed for them i'm disappointed for them because they didn't reach the levels that [6:04] they can reach i think we all know that anybody that's watched this team over the last few years [6:09] knows that we didn't reach the levels that we can reach hello over here michelle kaufman from the [6:16] miami herald um can you just give a little bit of a more evaluation about brazil you know some [6:22] people say oh this is not the brazil of the past or they're not as good how how would you assess this [6:28] brazil team thank you they're going to be very competitive in the competition i would expect them [6:33] to go deep whether that's semi-final final i've certainly got the quality in the final third of the [6:40] pitch to do that hi steve alan patolo from the scotsman um three no down on the hour mark against [6:49] brazil it's a it's a tough place to be can you take anything at all from that the last half an [6:54] hour when when when scotland did dig in and could possibly have preserved a world cup dream yeah we [6:59] dug in came it became a little bit a game of basketball they were waiting for us to or brazil were [7:04] waiting to get a chance to overturn the possession and and attack us and they did that a few times we [7:09] managed to get back and defend that like i said angus made a few decent saves at that stage of the game [7:14] and we did create some half chances to to get the the goal that would have made it a little bit [7:22] better in terms of what everyone wants to talk about about the goal difference uh robert mendick [7:30] from the uh daily telegraph do you have a sort of message to fans who've obviously spent a lot [7:35] of money they've got another four days to wait spending a lot more money do you think they should [7:40] stay and hang out and see if you're going to make it or do you think they should just go home and then [7:44] come back frankly i mean in other words what do you what do you think you're going to get through or not [7:49] you want me to make that decision for the people that are out here well i'm not sure that i'm not [7:56] sure that's in my remit as a head coach fans are fantastic they've been absolutely brilliant but [8:02] don't forget that this group of players brought these fans to america this group of players qualified [8:07] it's why the scottish journalists are here otherwise we're doing what we always do we're sitting on the [8:12] sofa and we're watching scotland on the television at a world cup sorry we're watching world cup without [8:18] scotland so the fans appreciate what this group of players have done for them they've had a great [8:25] time great ambassadors for the country but they wouldn't be here without that group of players [8:30] nothing for me that's a very important point thank you thanks folks yeah what do you think [9:21] brazilian celebration has to have well we're always very happy whenever we win and we go to the locker room [9:27] and we turn up the volume and to celebrate a victory well what do the brazilian team has that's so [9:36] special that makes this such a beautiful moment well i think that our joy contaminates everyone and also [9:42] us when we're on the pitch congratulations thank you