NO sooner had the final whistle sounded at the Estadio de Agosto in JuJuy on Saturday night than the familiar pleas of mitigation were filling the air. The Scots made too many mistakes, they need to be more consistent, with a good week of training the tourists will bounce back in round two of this three instalment series at the Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearna in Salta next Saturday night.
We’ve heard this stuff so many times before that it now sounds like meaningless obfuscation. All teams make mistakes and have off days, but progressive sides learn over time how to make less errors and how to manage games when things don’t quite click. This Scotland team appears caught in a repeat loop and can’t figure out how to break the cycle, so they just keep trotting out the same bland platitudes, hoping that occasional one-off successes will paper over the cracks..
