Scotland captain Andrew Robertson has apologized to his nation after their purpose of creating it to the final spherical of the World Cup Qualifiers have been dented by war-torn Ukraine.
Scotland went 3-1 down in entrance of their residence followers and can therefore miss a spot in Qatar 2022 and Robertson admitted it was disappointing to overlook the showpiece.
“It is vastly disappointing. We have now waited a very long time for this sport and our performances beforehand have been actually good however, to be trustworthy, we did not actually present up. Ukraine settled into the sport faster than us and that continued.
“We knew they have been going to get drained and that was the case however we gave ourselves an excessive amount of of an uphill battle. We have been pushing on the finish and left ourselves open to the counterattack, however you must try this. We did not play the best way we needed to and that is probably the most disappointing factor.
“All we are able to say is sorry to the followers in right here and again residence for disappointing them,” stated Scotland skipper Robertson.
Targets from Andriy Yarmolenko and Roman Yaremchuk had put a assured and dominant Ukraine 2-0 up earlier than Callum McGregor pulled a aim again for the Scots within the 79th minute however deep into stoppage time substitute Artem Dovbyk completed off a counterattack to safe the victory.