{"id":192789,"date":"2024-06-24T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/24\/andy-robertson-apologises-after-sucker-punched-scotland-exit-euro-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T17:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:40:59","slug":"andy-robertson-apologises-after-sucker-punched-scotland-exit-euro-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/24\/andy-robertson-apologises-after-sucker-punched-scotland-exit-euro-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Robertson apologises after \u2018sucker-punched\u2019 Scotland exit Euro 2024 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Scotland captain Andy Robertson apologised to the nation after being knocked out of Euro 2024 on Sunday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tartan Army went into their final group stage clash against Hungary with both sides realistically needing a win in order to advance to the last 16. A draw may have been enough for Scotland to secure qualification, but given this would have left them with only two points from three games, this was widely seen as an unlikely enough tally to send them through.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s performance in Stuttgart was largely flat and they didn\u2019t get out of first gear until ten minutes of stoppage time at the end of the second half. They registered only four shots, which all came after half-time and none of which were on target.<\/p>\n<p>The game was settled by a 100th-minute goal\u00a0from Kevin Csoboth at the end of a quick Hungary counter attack, and much focus has been placed on manager Steve Clarke\u2019s tactics, again choosing not to deviate from a back-five formation until late in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking post-match, Scotland skipper\u00a0Robertson\u00a0said: \u201cIt will take a long time to get over this one.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/01j14n5h67ec5cyhsn1v.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Csoboth\" title=\"Kevin Csoboth\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Csoboth was the hero for Hungary \/ Carl Recine\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cWe knew there was going to be a point in the game where we could go for it and bring on the players we had on the bench to go for it that wee bit more. We did go for it but we got sucker-punched at the end. A draw wasn\u2019t going to be enough realistically so both teams had to go for it and unfortunately one of us had to lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight is devastating. There is no buttering it up. All the lads are absolutely gutted. It\u2019s up to us to pick them up and that will only happen slowly but surely. What I will say is thank you to the country because we felt everyone behind us and we knew the excitement back home. Sorry for letting you down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scotland have been knocked out in the group stage of a major tournament at all 12 competitions they have qualified for, four of which have been\u00a0European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary\u2019s spot in the knockout stages is not yet assured as they still need to rank among the four best third-place teams \u2013 they currently sit third out of six in the mini-table.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland captain Andy Robertson apologised to the nation after being knocked out of Euro 2024 on Sunday night. The Tartan Army went into their final group stage clash against Hungary with both sides realistically needing a win in order to advance to the last 16. A draw may have been enough for Scotland to secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Andy Robertson apologises after \u2018sucker-punched\u2019 Scotland exit Euro 2024 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/24\/andy-robertson-apologises-after-sucker-punched-scotland-exit-euro-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Andy Robertson apologises after \u2018sucker-punched\u2019 Scotland exit Euro 2024 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scotland captain Andy Robertson apologised to the nation after being knocked out of Euro 2024 on Sunday night. 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