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Gary Caldwell was sent off for picking up two yellow cards which means he is suspended for the first game of the double-header against Macedonia and Holland at Hampden next month. And to compound matters his brother Steven had to come off just after the break with a groin injury and Christophe Berra is even more of a doubt after he came off with a hamstring injury.

"Who knows if Steven and Christophe will be fit?" Burley said. "But I spoke to David and he is clear, he has played games for us before and he would be available, so that is something that we've got to look at."

It was a night when, in the words of Burley, "everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong".

The manager, however, refused to put any blame on stand-in goalkeeper David Marshall who has now conceded 11 goals in his three international appearances for Scotland.

He said: "I don't think you can fault him for any of the goals.

"The free-kick at the end, he (Morten Gamst Pedersen) whipped it into the top corner and I don't think anyone would have saved that.

"And the other ones were decent finishes, although the first one was fortunate when they got the deflection."

The Scotland boss is adamant that two wins in Scotland's final two games will still be good enough for a play-off spot.

"I think six points will be enough - I've always said that," he said. "Nothing has changed. It was a disastrous result but circumstances have dictated that."