‘We want to qualify out of group’

chance to qualify whoever they are drawn against.

“We want to qualify from the group as well,” stressed Mcleish. “We have got to target that. We can’t just rely on this play-off thing. We want to qualify from the group.

“Now the players have got a wee bit of momentum,” he added. “You can’t preclude that you will lose players, and lose some of your good ones, at certain moments. That can obviously be difficult. It can be hard to keep the momentum and keep winning.

“But we believe, the way we have come through these two games, that everybody will be desperate to come back and play for Scotland.”