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Hungary in the remaining two matches. And the 31-year-old is itching to make up for one of the most humiliating nights of his glittering career.

He said: “The word ‘embarrassment’ is what I was thinking after the game. I didn’t say it to anyone because it was too raw at the moment.

“But that is the word I had in my head on my way off the pitch.

“You work so hard to get to this level and then we don’t do ourselves justice.

“That is what hurts the most. You can go and you can play well and still lose to Germany. Let’s make no bones about it, they are a top team and they will be there or thereabouts to win this tournament.

“But when you come off there is a sense that we did not do ourselves justice and that you will probably have to live with that forever.

“People will remember that forever. You are a professional and you understand what has happened.

“Now it’s about trying to rectify that. You will never be able to rectify the result because what has happened, has happened.

“But if you can get yourself out of the group then it diminishes. Then, in 10 or 15 years’ time, people will say, ‘ Yeah but they got out of the group and they achieved something great!’

“That is where the mindset has to be from here on because it was disappointing last night.”

Asked if there was also an element of anger over

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And he admits Murat Yakin’s Switzerland – who are up next – and Hungary will now see Scotland as a potential soft touch in the group.

McGregor said: “This is where we have to be strong. Everybody will come at us and quite rightly after a poor performance.

“But we can’t let it derail us – we can’t let it pull us apart and have people start going into their little groups.

“You have to stay together, you have to stay strong and ultimately you have to prove people wrong.

“We had a poor performance and a poor result and people see that and start to smell blood.

“The two teams that we’re going to play next will smell blood.

“So it’s now about what you’ve got inside.

“You want to rectify that and put it right. So for sure the next 48 hours will be really important.”