Alan McInally: Bring in Gilmour and Scotland have a chance v Switzerland | OneFootball

That was not the Scotland we're used to seeing

I was up in Glasgow for the game and the optimism was unbelievable. Everywhere was absolutely buzzing. It looked like the opposite of any Steve Clarke team we've seen in a year-and-a-half, it was really strange.

When we had the ball, Germany hunted us down, that was their game plan. We couldn't breathe when we were on the ball.

We were completely and utterly outplayed, outfought, which is not like a Scotland team. McGinn, McTominay, McGregor, Christie, they never got on the ball.

It was a very uncharateristic Scotland team under Steve Clarke. It was a bit of a damper.

Germany surprised everyone

I didn't think Germany would hunt us down. But Musiala was exactly what Bellingham was for England. As soon as he pressed, everyone else pressed. Andrich was the destroyer in the middle of the park.

Even when we played to the full-backs, we couldn't get out. There was no ball into the middle. There was nothing. Germany were very, very good. They surprised a lot of people because there was a question mark over Germany.

We must be better for Switzerland on Wednesday.

Celebrating winning a goal kick isn't for me

A clip has gone viral of Andy Robertson and Kieran Tierney celebrating after winning a goal-kick in the fourth minute of the match.

The boys should be better than that. It's all right having a good comradery within the group, and the lads will have known it's a difficult opening game against the hosts, but they shouldn't have been celebrating winning a goal-kick.

We should have been properly focused on the game. We knew it was a big team to take on.

Stick with Angus Gunn

I thought the Angus Gunn should have saved the first Germany goal and then that put us under a bit of pressure.

He had a really tough day at the office, but I think we need to stick with him in goal. He had a couple of really good moments in the game, but that first goal, he knows he should have saved it.

A mistake stays with you for a couple of minutes, but it seemed to weigh him down. He knew he should have done better for the first goal.

There were a catalogue of errors from the team. We didn't defend well enough. That was as chasting of a result that we've had in ages. I'm quite deflated. It got to the 60th minute and I wanted the referee to blow the full-time whistle.

Our Euros won't be defined by Germany result

With a bit of luck, this result won't define our Euros. We've got a chance against Switzerland on Wednesday and in our final game against Hungary. Switzerland beating Hungary is a great result for Scotland because we play Hungary last and the best third-placed side will go through. So not all is lost.

We're now looking for a bit of direction and hopefully Stevie Clarke can give that to the team over these next couple of days.

We went through similar exerpience at Italia '90

I experienced that disappointment in the opening game when I played at the World Cup in 1990 and it was really tough to take. We were down for a good day or two afterwards because we felt we were good but we just couldn't score.

We had Sweden in the next game and all we had to do was reset. We didn't change tactics that much but that's what Steve Clarke and this Scotland team need to do. The mistakes need to be cut out and the team need to create more chances at the other end of the pitch.

Scotland must put bad start behind them

The wait in-between that Costa Rica and Sweden game was murder for us in 1990. It wasn't doom and gloom but we were a lot quieter than before we kicked off the tournament. No one was fooling around, but we managed to turn things on the head and beat Sweden. It's all about being able to put the bad start to one side and move on.

The boys will have to live with that result all of their life. Angus Gunn will have to live with the fact that he didn't have a strong enough arm to push away the first goal. You have to live with it, but you can't dwell on it.

They have to dust themselves down and go again. They're still in the competition and they have to remember that the Germany game is not the decider.

I expect changes for Scotland

I thought Billy Gilmour should have started against Germany for the simple reason that when we've got the ball, we need to keep it.

Billy's quite good at retaining the ball on his own. Billy's comfortable on the ball - and I'm surprised Clarke didn't play him. I think Billy could replace Christie and McGregor will still start. Playing Gilmour will allow McGinn to push up a little bit. I'd like to see Gilmour start.

It didn't work at the back against Germany. As much as I don't think Grant Hanley is any Rudiger or Tah, he is hugely experienced. We missed Hanley. Clarke will rue that decision to not start Hanley with Henry and Tierney on either side against Germany. Ralston and Porteous just didn't work for us.

The two changes I would make would be to bring in Billy Gilmour and Grant Hanley.

Nothing changes in terms of who our main men are. John McGinn and Scott McTominay have to get into the game more. I will mention that I think Billy Gilmour will have a big say in the result. I'll be very disappointed if he doesn't play because what we saw on Friday didn't work. Something has to change but I don't think it'll be Callum McGregor.

Steve Clarke has to work things out so he can have John McGinn, Scott McTominay, Callum McGregor and Billy Gilmour all on the pitch. It'll be interesting to see who plays on the right hand side with Anthony Railston, because the game passed him by too quickly and he wasn't able to smell any danger.

I have to say Toni Kroos was absolutely unbelievable. That's the quality of European football and we, unfortunately, don't have that.

Switzerland are no pushovers

There was a time when he was at Arsenal where a second division team wouldn't have even signed Granit Xhaka because he was falling out with everybody. He was absolutely unbelievable against Hungary. He's had the season of all seasons at Bayer Leverkusen. He is one of the reasons why Switzerland will probably finish second in the group. I thought they looked really good. Hungary played okay, but I'd be fancying our chances against them in the last group game.

Against Switzerland we need to keep the ball. If you don't have the ball, you don't score. You've got to move it quickly. We have to get players up the pitch, we've got to get the ball in the box.

England played Serbia on Sunday and it was one touch, get it in the box. That's what we'll have to do to put the Swiss under pressure.

I didn't like to see Embolo score for Switzerland because he's dangerous, he's a goalscorer and he might cause us problems.

We have to keep the ball better and when we have it, we need to try to get it up the pitch earlier and then we can move up a bit. We started so deep against Germany and that put us under pressure. If we don't get into the Swiss, they'll score and beat us. We need a completely different gameplan.

Scotland v Switzerland prediction

I'm not going to sit here and say we'll definitely beat them. They've just scored three goals against a decent Hungary team and I don't think we'll score two or three goals. It'll be tight. I think we'll be better.

I can see it being a draw and then we'll set up the Hungary game needing a result. I'd be happy with that. I think we're good enough to get a point against the Swiss, especially if the squad can forget about the Germany result.