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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP/Group Five:Lithuania - 1 Scotland - 0:One German manager departed this freezing arena last night buoyed with his side's qualification chances dramatically improved, but it was not Berti Vogts. Instead, as Rudi Voller saunters home, Scotland's players awake this morning humiliated in ignominious defeat.

Lithuania may have owed their unlikely success to a dubious penalty, awarded by an error-prone Austrian official, but the Scots only had themselves to blame. Against a side ranked 43 places below them, Scotland laboured as if transfixed by their coach's pre-match rhetoric which suggested a point would suffice. Such limited ambition was always likely to cost them. Jackie McNamara's apparent trip on the substitute Darius Maciulevicius - there was slight contact - was punished by Tomas Razanauskas's penalty.