Houston makes points the priority for Scotland

05 September 2010 15:30

Scotland assistant manager Peter Houston has moved to dampen down any expectations of a goal avalanche against Liechtenstein at Hampden on Tuesday night.

After drawing 0-0 in their opening 2012 Euro qualifying Group I game against Lithuania in Kaunas on Friday, Craig Levein's side are expected to easily pick up three points against the section minnows, who lost 4-0 at home to Spain in their first match.

While most of the Tartan Army who make their way to the national stadium will be looking for goals, Houston insists victory is the priority and said: "It would be nice to go out and score a lot of goals and if it is comfortable then great. We will be delighted with getting three points."

He added: "You never get an easy game at international level. What we will come up against is a team who will be as well organised as they possibly can be.

"We know what we are up against, we know it will be difficult.

"If you put 11 players behind the ball, sitting on their 18-yard line, you still have to create and score goals.

"On some occasions it will be difficult.

"You see it with big clubs against little clubs - teams can make it difficult for you. The best that can happen is maybe that we score an early goal.

"But we can't put too much pressure on trying to score early goals, we just have to make sure we win the match and whether the goals come in the first half or the second half, it doesn't really matter.

"We are fully focused, the players' heads are up and we are looking forward to it."

Source: PA