Scotland Men's Football Team

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Scott Brown on BBC One

It's emotional. For the lads to win their first World Cup game since 1990.

We're top of the group. It wasn't the best performance but we had to grind it out and get three points.

We did what we had to do.

Willie Miller on BBC Sportsound

Result, first and foremost, is what you were looking for. But when you look back and analyse the game, the performance was really poor. It was backs to the wall in the second half and Haiti actually gave us a bit of a doing in terms of the football they played.

If they had quality in the final third that result would have been different. They don't have that quality and that's why Scotland survived.

Steve Clarke will be delighted with the three points but against better quality in that final third they're not going to survive the way they did.

It wasn't the performance I was expecting, it wasn't the performance the players were talking about but they got the win and the fans are happy.

I was not expecting us to be dominated by a team that are 83rd in the world ranking the way they dominated us.

Perhaps we could surprise everybody in the world by doing something against Brazil and Morocco.

Pat Nevin on BBC Sportsound

We have never, ever missed Billy Gilmour more than we did tonight. A player who can get the ball, hold the ball, play passes, take it in difficult areas and be the metronome we know he can be.

On top of that, we were playing 4-4-2 and were outnumbered in the middle of the park. The 4-4-2 system is not a good system for Scotland unless we are playing minnows. We thought we were playing minnows tonight.

We will not play that system again like that in this World Cup but I understand why it was done.

We know understand that, see all that stuff Billy Gilmour does for us? It's really special.

I don't think anybody is going to be quaking in their boots to play Scotland but what they don't know is we can do a lot better than that, and that's maybe our secret weapon.

James McFadden on BBC One

Winning games at major tournaments isn't something Scotland do regularly.

Haiti caused problems, but the resilience shown - that's what has been forged in this group.

The next two games are going to be tough, but they have dealt with the pressure of this game.

It wasn't enjoyable but I would have taken an ugly 1-0 win before the game.

Rachel Corsie on BBC One

The work of the midfielders was superb and defensively, we were tough to break down.

Enormous result - brilliant.

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Scotland match-winner John McGinn: "It's crazy. It wasn't my best of goals but who cares. Haiti are a decent team by the way. We had to work hard for it.

"Could we play a bit better? Aye. But it was a must-win game and we won.

"A generation of supporters haven't seen this. Hopefully when kids get up tomorrow they'll be beaming with pride. It sets things up for Friday [against Morocco]."

Scotland striker Lawrence Shankland: "That's why you put the graft in all your life.

"There was pressure on us to win. In competition football it's about winning and we got the job done.

"We've got the three points - we can be happy."

Scotland midfielder Lewis Ferguson: "The scenes at the end - these fans have waited so long for that. It was pretty special and nice to take it all in.

"They are a good side. Three points and we move onto the next.

"There was a lot of pressure on us and we put pressure on ourselves to win the game.

"We can play better, but we came here to do a job and we've done that.

"My job in this team is to be really disciplined, defend the back four, and I tried to do that today. I tried to stop passes going into their strikers.

"We defended pretty well, but we can be better and we will be better."

Scotland goalkeeper Angus Gunn: "It was difficult.

"I think it's good that we started with three points and experienced the atmosphere here. Our next game is here, I think that helps us. That's the first one out the way and hopefully we can play the next one a bit more relaxed.

"It was a very proud moment for me, all my family are here and I nearly cried when I saw them at the end."

John McGinn repaid head coach Steve Clarke's faith in him by firing Scotland to their first World Cup win in 36 years as they edged past Haiti on their return to the men's tournament after a 28-year absence.

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Scotland head coach Steve Clarke

"The supporters were unbelievable at the end. We defended really well, could have been better with the ball but everyone told us it was a must-win game and we won it. It was a good night for the fans and not too many big chances against us.

"I told the players you have to be ready to help the team whenever you're called on.

"The shape of the team was ok, nothing really happened at the start. It became pretty obvious to me early on that it was going to be a one goal game, thankfully it was us who got the goal.

"If you defend well you normally give yourself a bigger chance to win the game. We defended well tonight and got a bit of break for the goal but this team work every so hard to get those breaks.

"Not many Scottish teams win when it comes to the World Cup, that's victory number five in a World Cup final I think, my boys are alright."