Andy Robertson disagrees with 'information overload' Scotland theory

He also dismissed his manager Steve Clarke's post-match suggestion that players had been overloaded with information ahead of the 5-1 defeat to Germany in the opening game.

Robertson feels the painful result came because some players found the size of the opening game occasion unsettling while others simply didn't find their levels on the night. 

He said: "Everyone assessed themselves after the game and maybe the gaffer was a bit harsh on himself. I think, yeah ok, if he believes there was too much information but I believe the information was clear. Maybe the occasion got to a couple of us and maybe some of us didn't have the best game. 

"I don't think we went to the pitch and did what we did to get here. That was what was disappointing from a player's point of view.  The manager and his coaches will look at themselves and see where they could have done better but the players have to look at themselves and everyone took that day to look inward and not point fingers. We all did that and were in a better place.

"Come Saturday night we had a meeting on it and by Sunday we moved on and started to look ahead to this next game. It's a fantastic tournament to play in. We've all worked so hard to get here and want to enjoy it as much as we can but the only way we can do that is showing how we can play. We didn't do that on Friday night. Now we have two more chances to do that and stay in this tournament.

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"We need to get back to being us. We definitely weren't ourselves on Friday. We need to realise what got us results in the past and what we were good at. The message off the pitch hasn't changed. We need to trust each other and we will be a better team for it. You saw that in the qualifying campaign - a team full of belief.

"Maybe we played with a wee bit of fear. It's easy to talk about it and harder to put in place. It's not easy to start against the home country let me tell you. We had enough experience on the pitch to do better. We have a big game coming on Friday night we are all excited about. We want to show Scotland this tournament what Scotland is all about."

While the team didn't play at their usual levels, there was another factor that Robertson was keen to highlight - the sheer quality of their German opponent, especially in their home country.

"I do think there were two sides to Friday night," he said. "The big part was we didn't show up and we saw a very good team in front of their own fans. It was always going to be difficult for us but we made it even more difficult and I think that's the result was what it was. We can't dwell on it. Hopefully against the Swiss we see the Scotland we believe in and that gives us the best chance of getting a result."

Robertson cut a confident figure ahead of the ultimately doomed clash with the Germans. Much more circumspect this time, he admits the time for talk is over and with Scotland's qualification hopes now hanging on a positive result, it's time to put words into cold, hard, practice.

He said: "It's easy to talk about football, it's not as easy to go out and do it. We need action. there was a lot of talk after the game and a lot of people being critical. There were probably a lot of people from the outside who couldn't wait to dip into it. That's fine for them, they get paid to do that. We are focused on doing better on the pitch. 

"I could sit here and talk about it but it's not going to cause much difference. We need to get back to showing it. There was a bit of hype about us in our own country, people were excited and we love that,  but we have to give them something to shout about because that support was right up there with the best we've had. We let them down and we know we did. Come tomorrow and the next game we will hopefully give them more to shout about."