Celtic centre-back Stephen Welsh admits his evening as Scotland u21s captain was wrecked by one of many 'worst' 45 minutes of soccer he is seen from a nationwide staff - and that a match with Rangers is much from his thoughts.
The defender from Coatbridge led the Scots youth staff out at Tynecastle throughout a 2 -0 defeat to Turkey that each one however ended their hopes of reaching subsequent yr's Euros.
Welsh put one into his personal web to spherical off the defeat and it means they path, Belgium, Denmark and Turkey in Group I.
A return to Premiership motion looms after Tuesday's match with Kazakhstan and it does not get a lot larger as Celtic journey to Rangers in a defining title race match.
However Coatbridge's Welsh cannot even start to consider that after a surprising evening in Edinburgh for head coach Scott Gemmill, who needed to watch from afar after testing constructive for Covid-19.
A dejected Welsh mentioned of the Turkey defeat: "That first-half efficiency was one in all, if not the worst I’ve seen from a Scotland staff at any age group.
"From previous expertise going by the age teams - 17s, 19s and now 21s - even when a aspect is healthier than you, you continue to work more durable than them.
"I don’t suppose we labored 50 per cent to what Turkey did, though they have been excellent gamers. We weren’t aggressive sufficient, didn’t suppose we utilized ourselves sufficient in any respect and on the ball I believe we have been very, very poor.
"We regarded in shock once we obtained the ball, we have been shaky and perhaps a little bit of nervousness however I believe we have to transfer on from that now.
"We have to look again on that and see however then once more they're excellent on the ball, we didn’t get inside three or 4 yards of them each time they obtained the ball.
"It’s no secret that there's a large sport coming not far away however for me it’s about Kazakhstan and I can deal with Celtic after that."
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