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2-1 Scotland and a nervy 90 mins

Scotland picked up their first win of the 2009 Under-21 European Championship qualifying campaign with a comfortable victory over Lithuania at Easter Road. Ross McCormack drilled the Scots into a deserved lead on 44 minutes and Charlie Mulgrew finished strongly from close range soon after. Steven Fletcher found the net with a fantastic finish on the hour. McCormack hit the bar and the margin of victory could have been greater but for visiting goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis. Having lost their opener in Finland and drawn at home to Denmark, it was vital that the young Scots picked up maximum points. They made an impressive start, with Arlauskis saving well from Steven Naismith's stinging long range drive following a well-worked free-kick. And the visiting keeper did very well to claw away a looping header from Gary Kenneth from the resulting corner. The busy Naismith then shot over the crossbar from 20 yards and hit another fierce shot straight at Arlauskis before 10 minutes had passed. The home side lost their way after a blistering opening but finished the first half as they had started by putting the Lithuanians under intense pressure. Arlauskis pushed away Fletcher's header and the Lithuanian made a spectacular stop from McCormack after the Motherwell forward had beaten his man and shot powerfully from a tight angle. However, Arlauskis was eventually beaten when McCormack received a neat return pass from Fletcher and fired first time into the bottom corner from 20 yards. Less than a minute later, McCormack was set free by Kevin McDonald and squared the ball across the six-yard box for Wolves' Mulgrew to slam into an empty net. Lithuania rallied briefly after the interval and Jamie McDonald saved from Georgas Freidgeimas and tipped away a shot from Evaldas Grigaitis after a loose throw-out from the Hearts keeper. But Fletcher put the result beyond doubt with a wonderful goal on 59 minutes. The Hibernian striker collected Naismith's short pass 20 yards out, turned and fired into the bottom corner. McCormack later hit the crossbar with an audacious curling effort as the Scots coasted to victory in Edinburgh.

Not as hard as it could have been potentially for the Sheep and remember in the Uefa it's top 3 go through. The might sneak through

Are you quite happy to see another trophyless season too then? And seeing Stephen Mcmanus lifting the SPL trophy. As for making up ground - we've lost five points in the space of two weeks. We can't afford many more

Lucky b's too. Dnipro hit the woodwork 3 times. The sheep were really unfortunate with the goal they did lose though. ach well just need to watch them getting humped in the group stages. Helps the co-efficient too

It's hard to pick an MotM. Every single player played their heart out. Hemdani would probably get my vote

Papac has been really good in the last few weeks. Steven Smith might struggle to get his place back if he ever gets back to full fitness

So were a lot of to be fair me included. I thought it would be 3-0 right enough but not to us:)

Hemdani was absolutely outstanding. Dont think he gave the ball away once in the game. Suely he has to come back into the team now. To be fair Thomson had a good game also. As you already said Gav all of them gave their all. Beasley and LM were running on empty at the end

Cousin Hemdani and Beasley in for Naismith Boyd and Whittaker according to STV

You'll need to sit on your hands when Rino scores for Milan

Champions this season you reckon Gav? Got to be in with a shout. Liverpool and man U will be serious contenders too though

What a boring game:) There could have been more goals too

Would you rather PLG was still there like and Barry out the club? Lets move on from this eh ffs. PLG with or without the Barry saga was a complete failure. End of:mad:

Going by Seville numberrs there must be about 100,000 Bears going to Barca:)

Rangers Sheep Tic Hibs Caley Saints

I hate Man Ure so I was delighted to hear that coming back from our game. The old Hibees getting cuffed was a good laugh oo

Yeah Papac as back up fair enough but in Europe especially he's not quite what we're looking for. Nothing against Papac in particular and he can also play at centre back too if required

Boli was playing for them too. Outstanding team, but they still failed to beat us twice and they bribed the other teams. We would have won that competition there is no doubt in my mind. Marseille played AC Milan in the Fianl didn't they. Did Boli not score the winner???

sorry guys. See we beat Aberdeen 3-0 that often............

Boruc never crossed himself enough before the game obviously :uzi: Brilliant... back where we belong

What's the point in beating us last week and then losing to Caley Brilliant.... good old Craig Brewster Also a great result for Gretna against high flying Utd

Yip Tynecastle summed that up for me. Put it this way out of PLG staing or BF staying I know which one I'm glad stayed

The ref was a disgrace in that game. He made him re-take the pen he scored and then the same thing happened with the other two pens and he let them go:confused:

Barry's been really good the last few weeks and it showed when he was left out against Hearts how much we miss him if he's not there. Has played through the pain barrier on numerous occasions for us now. A legend in my eyes - some won't agree and will never forgive hm for what they saw as turning his back on us.