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New coach, new players, but same old failings hamper Scotland

Self-inflicted wounds cost Scotland on Sebastien Pocognoli's Hampden debut, writes Tom English.

BBC Sport · September 29, 2026

New coach, new players, but same old failings hamper Scotland

BBC Scotland's chief sports writer Published 30 minutes ago Scotland fans came to Hampden to welcome the new man, Sebastien Pocognoli, and left with all the woes of old weighing them down as they went.

More calamitous defending in the beginning, another self-inflicted wound that was a complete game-changer, another day without a goal - four in a row now.

In the early minutes when Jack Hendry got himself sent off, we may as well have been back amid the meltdown of Miami. Then, Scotland gifted Brazil one goal and then two when they made a fiendishly-difficult job an impossible one on the back of slapstick in defence.

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