Scottish hopes pinned on Celtic's Invincibles

For Scotland, the numbers told a grim and gloomy story. Two successive 3-0 defeats, one point from a possible nine – and that from a home match against Lithuania – had left Gordon Strachan’s side facing yet another qualifying failure.

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