Lewis Ferguson insists Scotland will play better against Morocco on Friday after scraping past Haiti to make a winning start to their World Cup campaign.
In the early hours of this morning, the Scots played their first World Cup match in 28 years and, as fate would have it, John McGinn's strike after 28 minutes delivered a 1-0 win over Haiti at Boston Stadium.
It was far from pretty as the Scots failed to turn on the style they showed in last week's fantastic 4-0 warm-up win over Bolivia.
But Steve Clarke's men top Group C going into their second match against Morocco, who drew 1-1 with Brazil in their opener.
Ferguson knows they failed to hit the heights and is confident that with a first World Cup win since 1990 under their belts, they will show improvement against the African champions when they head back to Boston Stadium later in the week.
The Bologna midfielder said: "It was difficult. There was a lot of pressure on us and we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to go and win the game. There was a lot of people expecting us to win and we expect to win as well, of course. We back ourselves and we believe in ourselves.
"I think we can play better, of course we can. We can create more chances and score more goals but we came here to do a job and we've done that.
"We can be better and we will be better. We will recover now and go onto the next one."
Ferguson himself can be pleased with his own individual performance, keeping the midfield ticking, doing well in possession and blocking off attacks.
And the former Hamilton Accies star was a shade unfortunate to miss out on the man of the match prize to McGinn.
He added: "My job within this team is to be really disciplined, protect the back four, and when I do get the ball feed the likes of John McGinn and Scott McTominay to go and make the magic happen.
"I tried to do that today because a lot of Haiti's game is about their two strikers. They are big, strong lads and they look to play off that so I just tried to stop the passes going into them and cut out their biggest threat - which I feel I did.
"They are still a good side and they still created chances to put us under pressure. They have got some really good players but I thought we defended well."
When the final whistle blew, a nation rejoiced and the majority of the 65,000 inside Boston Stadium savoured a little bit of history with their heroes.
"It was amazing, the scenes at the end there," Ferguson said. "These fans have waited so long for that so that wee moment between the fans, the players, the staff and also our families was pretty special.
"It was nice to take it all in. There is a feeling of relief just to get over the line because we were under a wee bit of pressure towards the end.
"Haiti are a good side, but we came here to win the game and we've done that so we move onto the next one."
