Barrling sympathy for Scottish woe

Calle Barrling, Sweden coach
We're happy with the points because we were so tired. I've never seen my team so tired, both mentally and physically tired. Many of my players are not used to playing too many 90-minute games, they're sitting on the bench playing ten or 15 minutes. This year seems to be our lucky year because two years ago everything was against us. Germany, for instance, equalised in the dying minutes and Scotland had late winners in qualification too.

I feel a bit sorry for the Scots because they were playing well and in the last 20 minutes they were definitely the better side. The Scots were the better side in the last 20 minutes and we made so many mistakes in our passing and didn't make any challenges at all. [The substitutes] were very keen when they came on though, and it was two substitutes who created the winner. We always talk of our bench, that they're the heroes and here it was true.

Ritchie Wilson, Scotland manager
We're drained. We put in a really good performance from back to front; everything that was asked of the players, they did it and did it well. For me, they put in a really competent performance and probably deserved something from it. On another day the result would be the reverse and it's us that would be celebrating. When we conceded I would say we were in the ascendancy, creating chances, doing really good work in the final third. To lose a goal like that and then come back again and get ourselves back in the game, then to lose it so cruelly right at the death, the players are distraught.

We can take many positives from this though. The performance as a whole, the structure – we played a different system to combat Sweden. We played a number of players in positions that they were unfamiliar in but they performed so well and we will take that as a positive. That's football, though: sometimes the luck is with you, sometimes it's against you. It's a shame that with our chances we didn't get the reward for it.