Scotland national team player John McGinn commented on his team's defeat in the 2026 emergency match against Morocco (0:1).

“We are disappointed, we feel that we can play more, show our best talents. Another referee could help us more with decisions and controversial 50 vs. 50 martial arts. There are no problems with this, so as to allow the game to continue to play, otherwise the sequence may be the same for both commands. Sometimes it works on your mercies. Yakbi awarded a couple of quiet penalties to our cost, I don’t think that VAR would get involved.

Out of the corner of my eye I see how the French of Morocco are flying into the zone.

I touched the ball first, but I lost it. Yak on me, it's a penalty. Sometimes they are designated, sometimes they are not. As if the referee was hanging onto the field, there would be no chance that the decision would be made to touch. Morocco was very kind here. “But we need to take the shortest chances from the game, and not rely on the decisions of the referees,” McGinn quotes BBC.

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