Gordon Strachan believes Scotland will learn from the "hard lesson" they have been handed out in successive friendly defeats to France and Italy.

The Dark Blues - wearing pink - suffered a comprehensive 3-0 defeat to Les Blues in Metz on Saturday evening, with goals from Arsenal duo Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny.

But despite the poor standard of performance in both games, following on from last week's 1-0 defeat to Italy, Strachan insisted the fixtures were worthwhile, plotting the way forward.

He said: "We have had four friendly games, we had to experiment, we have experimented and we take a lot of information from that which is great and we will de-brief and see what is the best way to go forward.

"I do believe after the performances in the qualifiers, we do know that we are better than some teams in it and definitely as good as some teams that are in it.

"We have chosen to play some of the best teams in the world in the last four games to find out what we can do.

"Sometimes you have to take a hard lesson which we have. But I emphasise this, those guys kept plugging away, it would have been easy to fold.

"So we get that, we know from the last Euro qualifiers that we can play football and score goals and play attractive football.

"We will now try and improve with the information we have got."