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The woeful stats behind Scotland's shocking defeat to Kazakhstan

Scotland went down to a humbling defeat to Kazakhstan to start their campaign to qualify for Euro 2020 in the worst possible fashion, setting some unwanted records in the process.

The Astana Arena in the Central Asian republic played host to a 3-0 win for the home team on Thursday, with the visitors thoroughly outplayed in a miserable performance.

Yuriy Pertsukh and Yan Vorogovskiy found the net inside 10 minutes to put Alex McLeish's men on the ropes before Baktiyar Zaynutdinov netted Kazaskhstan's third just after half time.

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Scotland dominated possession in Astana but were ultimately made to look inefficient and out of ideas in an historic reverse against one of Europe's less heralded national teams.