5 VIP pundits eviscerate Scotland as Euro 2024's Mr Snidey gleefully attacks a 'terrible' team without a plan

There's no getting away from it when you're shown up on the world stage like that.

A combination of Scotland wilting on the big occasion and Germany hitting their stride immediately made for a painful night in Munich and a damaging 5-1 defeat to get Euro 2024 underway. Steve Clarke was disappointed yet defiant brodering on prickly in the aftermath, but there will be no hiding place in the aftermath as the pre-tournament optimism evaporated in less than 19 minutes at the Allianz.

Lessons have apparently been learned from Euro 2020, which saw Scotland go out on home soil with a whimper. The hope is that there is evidence of that in the next two games, neither of which can be lost if making out of Group A is to remain a realistic possibility. The reaction, for the most part, has acknowledged that Scotland were up against genuine class and having a man less for half the game only makes a bad situation worse.

But that doesn't excuse just how wrong Clarke and his players got it after months of preparation. Good old Rafael van der Vaart is never one for diplomacy, and he'll be just as sharp tongued about his own nation if they are to fall flat. He was in typically critical form when assessing how we dealt with Toni Kroos and co: "Scotland are absolutely terrible. And they thought you know what? Let's not mark Toni Kroos."

Record Sport has picked out some of the more biting conclusions from elsewhere.

The Sky Sports pundit took aim at Ryan Porteous after his red card, but the Scotland camp as a whole were in the firing line after the game. And Boyd is worried that the big tournament jitters are taking hold once again now Scotland are actually there, and it needs to be nipped in the bud.

"They were embarrassing," Boyd told Sky