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Scotland were "outfought" and simply "not good enough" in their 2-1 Nations League defeat by Slovenia, says captain Andy Robertson.
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Having won in North Macedonia on Saturday, Sebastien Pocognoli's side were favourites to back that up with another victory at Hampden Park.
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The Scots led at half-time through Ryan Christie's close-range backheel, but were alarmingly open defensively and second-half goals from Danijel Sturm and Aljosa Matko turned the game on its head.
"Not good enough," Robertson told BBC Sport Scotland.
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"We didn't do the good things we did on Saturday, I don't know what that's down to.
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They caused us a lot of problems and we have to find the reasons why.
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"We wanted to kick on from Saturday because we had a really positive feeling about what we're doing and where we're going.
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We didn't do that.
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"It's been a long camp, I don't know if it was down to tiredness, but Slovenia have played the same amount of games as us.
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They looked a lot fresher, more hungry.
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"As Scotland, we might lack quality or make mistakes, but I don't think people accept being outfought.
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I think that's what happened tonight."
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Pocognoli echoed his captain's assessment that Scotland were well below par.
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"We didn't deserve to get the win, that's the reality," he said.
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"The reality is each game teaches us some information.
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We will try to go through the process we want and learn from this one and do better in the next one.
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When Pocognoli took over as Steve Clarke's successor in August, the Belgian was clear he would try to take Scotland in a new direction.
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He promised a more aggressive, more attacking style and called up several new faces - Josh McPake made his debut against Slovenia, following Stephen Welsh, Robbie Ure, Luis Binks and Luke Graham in the three previous fixtures.
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Scotland should have won in Slovenia in Pocognoli's first match in charge, which ended in a goalless draw, before Jack Hendry's early red card hamstrung them in a 3-0 home defeat by Switzerland.
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The win over North Macedonia was convincing and delivered a dose of optimism, but that has been severely dented and former Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday believes Pocognoli's honeymoon period is over already.
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"I thought coming into this camp, Pocognoli would probably need a period of grace," Halliday said on Sportsound.
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"I think that period of grace is now over.
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"That was as poor a Scotland performance as I can remember for a while against an opposition you are expecting us to go and beat."
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Slovenia got in behind Scotland's high defensive line repeatedly and former national team captain Willie Miller is unsure if Pocognoli will stick with his back three.
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"This is Pocognoli's preferred system and he's had time to work with the system, it was just all over the place," Miller said on Sportsound.
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"Time and time again there were huge gaps appearing and Slovenia were taking advantage.
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"Our situation is we've got a new manager in, he's got a preferred system, what does he do?
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Does he just bin it?
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"His preferred system is a back three, but it was unbelievably poor."
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