'Enormous result': What the pundits said as Scotland beat Haiti

[PA Media] Scott Brown on BBC One It's emotional. For the lads to win their first World Cup game since 1990. We're top of the group. It wasn't the best performance but we had to grind it out and get three points. We did what we had to do. Willie Miller on BBC Sportsound Result, first and foremost, is what you were looking for. But when you look back and analyse the game, the performance was really poor. It was backs to the wall in the second half and Haiti actually gave us a bit of a doing in terms of the football they played. If they had quality in the final third that result would have been different. They don't have that quality and that's why Scotland survived. Steve Clarke will be delighted with the three points but against better quality in that final third they're not going to survive the way they did. It wasn't the performance I was expecting, it wasn't the performance the players were talking about but they got the win and the fans are happy. I was not expecting us to be dominated by a team that are 83rd in the world ranking the way they dominated us. Perhaps we could surprise everybody in the world by doing something against Brazil and Morocco. Pat Nevin on BBC Sportsound We have never, ever missed Billy Gilmour more than we did tonight. A player who can get the ball, hold the ball, play passes, take it in difficult areas and be the metronome we know he can be. On top of that, we were playing 4-4-2 and were outnumbered in the middle of the park. The 4-4-2 system is not a good system for Scotland unless we are playing minnows. We thought we were playing minnows tonight. We will not play that system again like that in this World Cup but I understand why it was done. We know understand that, see all that stuff Billy Gilmour does for us? It's really special. I don't think anybody is going to be quaking in their boots to play Scotland but what they don't know is we can do a lot better than that, and that's maybe our secret weapon. James McFadden on BBC One Winning games at major tournaments isn't something Scotland do regularly. Haiti caused problems, but the resilience shown - that's what has been forged in this group. The next two games are going to be tough, but they have dealt with the pressure of this game. It wasn't enjoyable but I would have taken an ugly 1-0 win before the game. Rachel Corsie on BBC One The work of the midfielders was superb and defensively, we were tough to break down. Enormous result - brilliant.
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