Gregor Townsend will not be too concerned if Scotland are involved in another high-scoring Nations Championship encounter with Fiji on Saturday – as long as they are on the right side of the scoreline.

Scotland have scored 21 tries in their last four games, three of them away from home, against France, Ireland, Argentina and South Africa, but they have conceded 163 points in the process and lost twice.

“I think that’s the nature of the game,” head coach Townsend said. “France won the [Six Nations] championship having conceded 96 points in the last two weekends. And they were the best team in the Six Nations.

“The game is in a period right now where attacks are proving too much for defences at times and that’s a positive part of the game.

“I think there’s a bit of context in our France and Argentina games in that the tries were scored near the end, where we were still encouraging our players to play, which is the mindset we want.

“But we’d obviously like to reduce the points scored against us and increase the points that we score.”

Townsend, who has made 14 changes for the match at Murrayfield, took positives out of Scotland’s 42-28 defeat in Pretoria last weekend.

“Probably the most important element was how resilient we were when we went behind on two occasions,” he said.

“But there were moments where we switched off just our focus a couple of times in attack and a couple of times in defence.

“When you’re playing the best teams in the world, and South Africa are the best team in the world right now, those small moments can cost you and they did at the weekend.”

Fiji scored three tries in a 39-24 defeat by Wales before losing 73-8 to England in their opening Nations Championship games.

“We know this opposition,” Townsend added. “They might not be the number one team in the world, but they’re probably the most dangerous team in the world if you switch off.

“And switching off is not just right in front of you, it might be 50 yards away because Fiji can move the ball and they can run out their own line and suddenly you think you’re not going to be involved.”