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		</div><p>Scotland head coach Steve Clarke insists he is up for the fight despite finding international management more difficult than he imagined.</p>
<p>The misery continued in Moscow as Scotland slumped to a 4-0 defeat following a second-half capitulation.</p>
<p>Russia followed Belgium in inflicting a four-goal thrashing of Clarke’s side as Scotland crumbled after conceding from a 57th-minute corner.</p>
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<p>The former Chelsea defender arrived in the job having achieved immediate, stark and sustained improvement with Kilmarnock.</p>
<p>But, after a last-gasp win over Cyprus in his first match in charge, Clarke has presided over four defeats with the loss of 13 goals.</p>
<p><em>“On the back of a 4-0 defeat, and back-to-back 4-0 defeats, yeah, it feels difficult,”</em> said Clarke, when asked if it was a more difficult job than he first thought.</p>
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<p>Clarke defended his team selection after leaving out in-form Celtic pair Ryan Christie and James Forrest. John Fleck made his debut in a deep midfield role with Callum McGregor and John McGinn accompanying him.</p>
<p><em>“I wanted to have three solid midfield players in the middle, and I thought for 57 minutes that was working fine for us,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“I don’t think we went out of the game because of the personnel or the team shape or the way we set up the tactics.</em></p>
<p><em>“We went out the game because we switched off for a corner, and the fragile confidence after that, we just allowed the game to run away from us.”</em></p>
<p>Scotland had next to no chance of a top-two finish before the defeat confirmed that fact, but they are now four points adrift of third-placed Cyprus in fifth and in serious need of a confidence boost before they take part in the play-offs in March.</p>
<p>They now host San Marino on Sunday before facing Cyprus and Kazakhstan next month to round off the group.</p>
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