Scotland booed off at Murrayfield after spectacular collapse against Argentina

Join the Miguel Delaney team: Inside Football Get exclusive insights and behind-the scenes access to the Miguel Delaney: inside newsletter Football NewsletterJoin the Miguel Delaney inside Football newsletterShellshocked captain Sione Tuipulotu admitted Scotland deserve all the criticism they get after they were booed by their own supporters following a spectacular collapse in a 33-24 defeat at home to Argentina.The Scots led 21-0 midway through the third quarter after Jack Dempsey’s try was followed by a Ewan Ashman double.But with victory seemingly in their grasp, a loose pass by Finn Russell followed by a 54th-minute yellow card for Blair Kinghorn had a momentum-shifting effect as the Pumas roared back with five tries in the closing 24 minutes to claim a first Murrayfield victory since 2009.Captain Tuipulotu accepted he and his team-mates need to “take a good hard look at ourselves”.”I think we started off the game well, and even came out the second half to win that first exchange. In fact, we were 21 points ahead of them and we turned over the ball. After that we lost our calmness,” said the British & Irish Lions center.We didn’t even touch the ball in large portions of the second half due to our poor discipline. I think that it was just a matter of losing your composure when faced with adversity.We as players will have to look in the mirror because we didn’t perform well enough. “We scored one more attempt after we went 21 points ahead and I think that the floodgates opened from there. We didn’t, and we deserve to take a bit of a beating as a team.Tuipulotu was asked if it’s fair that supporters booed after watching the Scots unravel so alarmingly. He replied: “I believe so, yeah. Gregor Townsend has talked in the changing rooms about home sellouts on consecutive days. Not every stadium does this.We watched rugby yesterday, and some seats were empty in the stadium. But not in ours. There’s a bit of guilt because people paid good money to watch us.”I think as a group, we should admit that this is not good enough.”Head Coach Townsend whose job will be under scrutiny again after such a devastating capitulation said: “I didn’t expect that to happen.open image in the gallery(Getty Images).” The first half was full of them and we did a great job defending.”To be able to score zero against such a high-quality team as Argentina shows that we are capable. However, in the last thirty minutes we weren’t able to do this and we will investigate how it happened.Scotland seemed to lose focus after an ambitious pass by Russell was intercepted as they threatened a fourth attempt. This sparked a Pumas counterattack, which led to Kinghorn’s yellow card in the 54th minutes.Townsend commented on Russell’s passing: “It is a big momentum shift that happens sometimes.” “Sometimes, you can make a mistake without anything happening.”But it was very costly for it to turn the field, and us to get a yellow cards. That’s also down to other peoples actions that we received the yellow card. And for Argentina’s excellent play.”
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