Scotland 1 v 0 Lithuania

[PeeJay]

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hes on aston villas books but has been out on loan the past couple season. latterly with leeds i think.

....cheers!

[iwasthere1972]

Crappy ref.

[Matty_Jack04]

He played twice for Leeds before being recalled to sit on villas bench, I'm not saying he's a bad player but dorrans for example was brilliant fir WBA and consistently too do we pick players playing well for first team or over look them in favour of young players doing well in reserve football?

[hibbytam]

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Wow, just...wow. Fletcher must be so proud to wear that dark blue jersey then. GET HIM BACK IN THE NATIONAL TEAM NOW!!!! Total nonsense and you know it.

I slated Kris Boyd when he turned his back on Scotland/Burley... I therefore refuse to treat Fletcher differently just because he used to play for my team. That would make me a hypocritical CANT.

So instead you're left with Scotland having far more limited options upfront, when we aren't exactly blessed with skilled players anyway.

[SteveHFC]

Crainey on

[SteveHFC]

Put Naismith upfront with Goodwillie and bring on Snodgrass for Morrison.

[Wotherspiniesta]

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Wow, just...wow. Fletcher must be so proud to wear that dark blue jersey then. GET HIM BACK IN THE NATIONAL TEAM NOW!!!! Total nonsense and you know it.

I slated Kris Boyd when he turned his back on Scotland/Burley... I therefore refuse to treat Fletcher differently just because he used to play for my team. That would make me a hypocritical CANT.

How can you be playing and posting on hibs.net, Pilabitus?

[EK_Hibs]

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How can you be playing and posting on hibs.net, Pilabitus?

Sorry what?

[Sir David Gray]

England 1-0 Wales, full time.

That's England all but qualified for Euro 2012. It means that England only need a point in Montenegro next month to secure top spot.

However, if Montenegro beat England then Montenegro will get top spot if they go on to beat Switzerland in their final game.

[3pm]

Are Hibs the only team that make Zaliuskas look like a player?!

[Wotherspiniesta]

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Sorry what?

If you'd been watching the game you'd get it

[ronaldo7]

Barry Bannan was Mom for me. Skill and picking out the easy pass, and his crossing is great too.

[SteveHFC]

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Barry Bannan was Mom for me. Skill and picking out the easy pass, and his crossing is great too.

[Sir David Gray]

1-0 Scotland, full time.

[SteveHFC]

FT

Well done Scotland.

[Biggie]

Jesus, we made hard work of that...how many chances does Naismyth need ?....anyway 3pts and on we go.....they are the international version of the pub team..

[Judas Iscariot]

That was worse than watching Hibs

[EK_Hibs]

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If you'd been watching the game you'd get it

Aaah, I get it, Pilabitus... that Lith with the ginger beard!! Haha!! Gash player but he scored against the Huns before so we'll let him off :)

[PeeJay]

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Barry Bannan was Mom for me. Skill and picking out the easy pass, and his crossing is great too.

Me too - he was hungry for the ball, crisp and accurate with his passing (short and long) and he can whip in corners and free kicks - Fletcher had a good game too (pity about the penalty miss!) Good result for Scotland - not sure why we stood so deep towards the end - still 3 points!

[essexhibee]

That pillowbiter should have buried that chance. Scotland were lucky and yet again we were hanging on. Amazed that the liths somehow beat c.republic before as they are truely woeful. No way they will do it again.

[Bayern Bru]

Happy we won but how pish is Naismith? And he's allegedly one of, if not the best Rangers player?

Dearie dear.

[Hiber-nation]

Lets face it the Liths were absolutely rank rotten. They had 2 of the worst players ever to play for hearts, alongside a bunch of no-hopers, journeymen and more maroon muppets.

We should have been battering this lot but it was the usual brand of negative dead slow-stop Levein-style football.

[essexhibee]

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Lets face it the Liths were absolutely rank rotten. They had 2 of the worst players ever to play for hearts, alongside a bunch of no-hopers, journeymen and more maroon muppets. We should have been battering this lot but it was the usual brand of negative dead slow-stop Levein-style football.

Benuises is an embarassment to the game.

[Sylar]

93 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

What a poor excuse for a game of football.

Good result, but awful performance from both teams.

[Sir David Gray]

Spain are five up after an hour against Liechtenstein so that's them qualified ahead of their last two games against Czech Republic and Scotland.

The group's looking a lot clearer now.

Spain have qualified as group winners so that's them out of the equation. Following tonight's results, Lithuania and Liechtenstein cannot qualify either.

It is all down to the Czech Republic and Scotland for second spot.

Czech Republic

P-6
PTS-10

Scotland

P-6
PTS-8

Remaining fixtures;

7th October

Czech Republic vs Spain

8th October

Liechtenstein vs Scotland

11th October

Spain vs Scotland
Lithuania vs Czech Republic

I know that Spain have qualified but I would imagine that they'll still win their last two qualifiers and I think Scotland will beat Liechtenstein. So it will really come down to the final game between Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Personally I think the Czechs will get the point that they would need in order to qualify for the play-offs, if my other predictions are correct.

It's going to be tough to get second place but I don't think it's quite over yet.

[Westie1875]

Harry Potter harping on about having lots of chances in the 1st half but not being able to score them, I wonder why that was HP? Perhaps next time you should try including more than one striker in your squad.

Oh, and he is still going on about the ref from the weekend and moaning about people who have had a go at him for his tactics, can't take criticism at all.

[Sylar]

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Spain are five up after an hour against Liechtenstein so that's them qualified ahead of their last two games against Czech Republic and Scotland.

The group's looking a lot clearer now.

Spain have qualified as group winners so that's them out of the equation. Following tonight's results, Lithuania and Liechtenstein cannot qualify either.

It is all down to the Czech Republic and Scotland for second spot.

Czech Republic

P-6
PTS-10

Scotland

P-6
PTS-8

Remaining fixtures;

7th October

Czech Republic vs Spain

8th October

Liechtenstein vs Scotland

11th October

Spain vs Scotland
Lithuania vs Czech Republic

I know that Spain have qualified but I would imagine that they'll still win their last two qualifiers and I think Scotland will beat Liechtenstein. So it will really come down to the final game between Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Personally I think the Czechs will get the point that they would need in order to qualify for the play-offs, if my other predictions are correct.

It's going to be tough to get second place but I don't think it's quite over yet.

I see it the same way, but I guess a lot depends on how strong a lineup Spain decide to use against both us and the Czech's. If they decide to rest a few of their key players, then we (and CR) will have a chance, though being that they play them in Prague, they're probably in a better position than us to sneak something.

I, too, still fancy them to take care of business and Levein will undoubtedly hark back to "that game" and "those decisions", rather than the dire opener in Kaunus, the infamous 4-6-0 in Prague.

[Hainan Hibs]

It was always going to be an uphill battle after the first round of games and the 4-6-0 has came back to haunt us with a vengeance. If we'd put at least one guy up front we would have pushed them back a bit more and may have been able to grab that crucial point that would have made all the difference (we would've been in 2nd now).

Levein can dress it up all he wants but being ultra defensive/***** in a few too many crucial games has seen us once again set ourselves up for a glorious failure (we'll probably claim a point in Spain and crash out).

Levein should be thankful he has the media on side.

[WestStandhibee]

just back from the game, another poor performance

bannan had a top game, has to get more game time, also hate to admit but naismith had a great match aswell

[Haymaker]

I thought we played quite well, Lithuania were a bit shocking in some respect but we pressed, chases and created chance after chance. We might not have converted them but we created them which is a **** load better than we were doing a while ago.

One thing we needed was for some players to take their time, players like Bannan (who was very good but showed his inexperience with his heavy passing/deliveries) but also a fair few of the more "experienced" players seemed to want to unload the ball too quickly when they werent under pressure.