Hugo Southwell believes Scotland will face a bigger test in Rome on Saturday in their final game of this year's RBS 6 Nations Championship than they did in the stirring victory against England.
Frank Hadden's men regained the Calcutta Cup with a 15-9 triumph at Murrayfield by virtue of a terrific defensive display reminiscent of the win against England in 2006.
Chris Paterson continued his remarkable form with four penalties - taking his tally of consecutive successful kicks at goal to 30 - while Dan Parks added another from long range.
Jonny Wilkinson countered with three penalties of own, the first of which was enough to make him the highest points scorer in Test history.
But Brian Ashton's men were otherwise uninspired and while Scotland's incredible 98 per cent tackle success rate was impressive, England's attack posed their hosts few problems.
Nevertheless, the victory relieved a huge amount of pressure from the Scotland players and management and now they face Italy on Saturday with the chance of finishing what had previously looked a forlorn campaign with a flourish.
However Southwell insists Nick Mallett's side will be a tough proposition and that Scotland will need to play at least as well as they did against England to leave the Eternal City with a positive result.
He told PA Sport: "Hopefully the weather will be better in Rome and we can play the sort of rugby we wanted to play against England and go out there and score some tries.
"I don't think their loss against Wales was an accurate reflection of what they did in the game and at home they are going to be a difficult proposition.
"We've got guys in the backline who are pretty dangerous runners and we didn't get a chance to see them against England but we want to get out there and back-up what we did on Saturday.
"OK, we won a game and a massive one at that but if we go to Italy and don't put it the performance we know we can then this win will be much less significant. We've got to go there and finish the tournament on a high.
"I think Italy might even cause a few more problems than England did as they'll probably play a bit more rugby.
"The forwards put in a massive shift on Saturday because they knew England would come here to try to bully us. The backline did their bit too and the defensive side of things is a massive part of the game and we haven't done that particularly well in the past three games. To shut England out in terms of tries is pretty pleasing."
The Edinburgh star was satisfied with his own performance, recovering from spilling an early high ball to produce one of his best displays in a Scotland shirt.
Southwell revealed that work he has been doing with a sports psychologist helped him move on from that mistake in the opening minutes of the match.
The 27-year-old said: "I've done quite a bit of work with a psychologist to try and enable me to get over that kind of thing because as a full-back if you make an error it can be pretty glaring.
"Fortunately we got the ball back and it wasn't a massive concern but to come out the other side and be able to focus on my job is pleasing, especially in these conditions.
"I think that was pretty much the only mistake I made all game which, again, in those conditions I'm quite pleased with on a personal and collective level.
"Frank (Hadden) spoke to me about it in the changing room afterwards and said he was pleased with how I bounced back.
"Your head can go down because it wasn't the hardest ball and I would have taken it nine times out of 10 and that's what I kept telling myself and fortunately the next few high balls I took OK.
"Once those downpours came in on the back of the rain early in the day it made very slippery and I thought we stuck to our task better than England. That's why we came out on top."
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