David Murdoch and his Scotland team bounced back from a shock European championships defeat as they swept aside Finland last night.
Murdoch admitted to having got his tactics badly wrong to gift he unfancied Czechs a surprise 3-2 win, but he and his team-mates hit back in clinical style as they demolished the Finnish team 15-1 at the Linx Arena last night.
The defending European champion said: “It was nice to bounce back. It was a disappointing loss this morning and we wanted four wins from four, but we’ll take three.
“The ice was swinging more today and we decided to change our tactics.
“We decided to play our way into the week and be a bit more cautious but after the Czech Republic game we played the style of curling you need to win the championship.
“We need to be a bit more aggressive.
“Instead of letting teams run us up the 10th end we want to get away from them early and the plan worked perfectly.
“We got lots of rocks in play and it paid off.
“We’ve got Denmark tomorrow so hopefully we can have a good day at the office.”
Murdoch had earlier insisted he should shoulder the blame for Scotland’s shock loss to Jiri Snitil’s Czech Republic team.
Having blanked the seventh, eighth and ninth ends, Murdoch was content to wait for the last stone to seal the win but his decision to opt for a hit and run when he had the option to draw went wrong when he caught a short guard to leave the Czechs celebrating.
Murdoch said: “It was a routine shot really.
“We were tight for time and I speeded it up a bit.
“It just went straight and was a bad miss.”
Last night’s win leaves the Scots with a 3-1 record.
They began their campaign on Saturday with a 3-2 win over Sweden which was followed by a 5-2 victory over France’s Thomas Dufour.