Croatia 3-1 Scotland: John McGinn says Euro 2020 should ‘be the beginning’

Croatia 3-1 Scotland: John McGinn says Euro 2020 must 'be the start'

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Reaching Euro 2020 must “be the start” for Scotland at major finals, after they “didn’t do ourselves justice” this time, says midfielder John McGinn.

Steve Clarke’s side needed to win to reach the last 16, but were taken apart by the 2018 World Cup finalists Croatia on a sobering night at Hampden.

Scotland’s men are yet to go further than the group stage at a major finals, having not qualified since 1998.

“We’ve got to use this to drive us on to more tournaments,” McGinn told ITV.

“They’re an excellent team, we knew that. We were ignoring all the noise that they were an ageing team and slow. They weren’t, and they have one of the best players in the world in Luka Modric.

“The World Cup is our aim now. You look around the dressing room and we’ve got a good age group, determined guys and we feel as if we didn’t do ourselves justice.

“We need to become a nation that is used to it, we need to become braver and better. But what we have done is create history coming here and we want this to be…

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