Scotland 19-23 Argentina

Hadden's side led 19-16 with 10 minutes left but gave away a late penalty try with Simon Taylor in the sin-bin.

"I was very happy with the foundations we laid today, it gives us something to build on," said Hadden.

"We now need to convince the players of what they did well in the game. Even the media have a role to play in terms of how their efforts are portrayed."

It was Hadden's first match in full-time charge since taking over from sacked Australian Matt Williams for the summer wins against the Barbarians and Romania in the summer.

The former Edinburgh coach added: "I'll look at the tape and see what we could have done better. You get a much better feel for the game when you watch it through.

"I can picture line-outs that didn't quite go where we wanted them to go and I can picture two instances when players were running onto the ball and falling over and the ball rebounding elsewhere.

Our scrummaging was absolutely outstanding considering the strength of their scrum Scotland coach Frank Hadden

"Those were the key moments when if we had executed these phases at that time then we really could have put them away. But we didn't."

Hadden was pleased with the way his forwards stood up to the test provided by the famously physical Argentina forwards.

"The guys will be sore tomorrow, it was a very physical game and we played at a tempo which made it difficult for them," he said.

"You could tell that by the fact they were going down like flies at the end. They were out on their feet.

"Our scrummaging was absolutely outstanding considering the strength of their scrum.

"Their only period of dominance was when Simon Taylor was in the sin bin. I thought we scrummaged exceptionally well."

Scotland skipper Jason White said: "We gave everything and had a go.

"We said beforehand we were going to play with the ball and we did. The guys gave it 100% and we were so close. Maybe if we had kept the ball more.

"Scrummaging is obviously the Argentinians' strength. We were a man down, so they were obviously going to squeeze us.