John McGinn admits Scotland gap below elite 'slightly worrying' after Germany Euro 2024 mauling

John McGinn admits last night's Scotland drubbing at the hands of Germany was "slightly worrying" that the gap between the elite nations is widening again.

The Euros host nation battered the Scots 5-1 in a merciless opening game of the tournament on an evening where none of Steve Clarke's usually reliable squad turned up. The nation have built a reputation in recent times of being difficult to break down, hard to beat and there have been some massive results - a 2-0 win over Spain springs to mind - that has shown Scots can mix it with the big boys.

McGinn, though, accepts it was a nightmare on the pitch but he vowed to put things right on Wednesday against Switzerland to prove the squad can still cut it on this stage.

"Aye, we've got the quality and strength in depth as well so if we need to change things we'll change things," the Aston Villa captain explained. "We'll look at what we'd planned to do tonight, what we can do better and that's collectively so we won't be pointing the finger at anyone individually but we'll have to have a hard look at ourselves.

"We know we need to improve for Wednesday, we can't really dwell on the game at this level. We have a couple of days to analyse it and then it'll have to be full focus on Switzerland.

"We had an amazing achievement getting here but we wanted to be the team that goes one further and qualifies from the group. We've still got the chance to do that but we got to a stage where we're competing against these teams, getting closer, even when we played Netherlands we were the better team for large spells but tonight we were back to seeing that gap which is slightly worrying for ourselves.

"But we know we're capable of closing that gap and we need to get back to doing what we did before."