"It looks very bleak but we can't give up" says Darren Fletcher DARREN Fletcher is at a loss to explain the defeat in Cardiff, but hopes to lift spirits in Belgium, discovers Tom English. The fallout from Cardiff continues. Darren Fletcher has accused Aaron Ramsey of diving to try and win a penalty while already booked. "Ramsey dives when he is on a yellow card and the referee bottled the big decision to give him another," said the Scotland captain about an incident that midway through the second half on Friday night when Scotland were still a goal ahead. "Sometimes you need that bit of luck and we never got it," said Fletcher. Unquestionably, he had a point about Ramsey and about the awful decision to disallow Steven Fletcher's goal that would have made it 2-0, but there is a realist inside the Manchester United player. He railed against some of the poor decisions that went against his side but also acknowledged that things are grim in Scotland's group now. There was no hiding from the fact. "It looks really bleak: a real uphill battle," Darren Fletcher said. But we're not giving up hope while there are still points to play for. We need a massive result on Tuesday night - there is no doubt about it. If we can win that, it would still be an uphill battle but we need to regroup quickly, get our good game plan ready for Belgium and if we can go there and manage to get three points then we will be slightly back in it. That is going to be a big ask. Fletcher has seen most things in the game but for all his experience he was at something of a loss to explain the sudden nightmare that came upon Scotland in Cardiff, the rapid double whammy supplied by Bale. He had no great issue with the penalty. He's seen them given. No arguments. But to lose a second goal was a catastrophe he never saw coming. If you had said we would come in having drawn the match I would have been bitterly disappointed but to end up losing it is a real low blow. The lads, as you can imagine, are really down and disappointed. We feel we had a perfectly good second goal disallowed. Having seen it again, the ball is not out of play. In big games you have got to get these decisions right. I don't want to make excuses because we should have seen out the game. This shouldn't happen. We will look back on the game and the goals. How have we conceded them? We've got to pick ourselves up quickly. I know there is a lot of disappointment. There is a lot of negative feeling about the national team just now but we can't do anything about that. We can only got out there and give it our best. Really rally round the manager. We believe in the manager. The lads are disappointed because we really wanted to do it for him more than anyone. The lads are behind him. From experience, we know that this is the kind of thing that all players say and Fletcher knows that we know. Of course we're behind him. I know that people sometimes just say that, but I'm saying we are genuinely behind him. We believe in the manager, We believe in the group that we have got. I think you saw the selection to play Wales was positive. We played some good stuff at times. I don't think Allan [McGregor] had too many saves to make. We have had chances and scored a perfectly good second goal and we had other chances as well to kill off the game. We have reached a sorry point in this campaign after just three games. We have reached a sorry point in Levein's era also. It will take something remarkable to save him now, but the captain was getting the word out there anyway. Maybe in vain, but the message is clear: the players want him to stay. But the players need to win in Belgium to make that even a remote possibility. And that looks way beyond them at this point. If we lose on Tuesday, then to have two points after four games, well, it would be very difficult [to make up the ground]. We would probably need to win every game and even then that might not be enough, so we need to try and get something on Tuesday. A win if possible but a draw at worst. We have great talent in the squad with great competition for places but international football is difficult. You don't have a lot of time to work together, You only have a short week in the build-up to games. I'm not making excuses. We should be in a better position in the group than we are just now. I'm not denying that. We have got a chance to put it right. It is going to be very difficult but some of our best results have been when our backs are up against the wall. We have got to stay positive. You can't go into a game all gloom and doom. If you do that you have no chance. We will almost see Tuesday as last chance saloon. Many would say that Cardiff represented the last chance, but Fletcher is right. He can't mope or speculate about what happen in the high offices of Hampden. He has to galvanise his team-mates and hope against hope that Tuesday brings respect rather than one more nail in the coffin.