{"id":1118,"date":"2017-09-01T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T23:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2018-07-13T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T12:39:49","slug":"world-cup-qualifier-lithuania-0-3-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/world-cup-qualifier-lithuania-0-3-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Qualifier Lithuania 0-3 Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC REPORT: Scotland breathed fresh life into their World Cup qualifying campaign with a convincing win away to Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>There had been chances missed at both ends by the time Stuart Armstrong rose to head the visitors into a deserved lead after 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before Andrew Robertson topped that with a sublime looping drive from just outside the box.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s pace and control dropped after the break, but James McArthur prodded in a third to settle the game.<\/p>\n<p>The win moves Gordon Strachan&#8217;s side ahead of Slovenia, who lost 1-0 away to Slovakia, into third place in Group F on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>But they remain four points adrift of the second-top Slovaks thanks to an Adam Nemec goal nine minutes from time in Trnva, while England retain their two-point cushion at the top after their 4-0 win in Malta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/41045460\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/41045460<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SFA Report:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishfa.co.uk\/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=2986&#038;newsCategoryID=6&#038;newsID=17176\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.scottishfa.co.uk\/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=2986&#038;newsCategoryID=6&#038;newsID=17176<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-slot=\"3379014842\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8934562929349122\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDRLRO5FFe0?list=PLxTzzR1GM-0cx63m6FL0t6DK_qiCcX07S\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC REPORT: Scotland breathed fresh life into their World Cup qualifying campaign with a convincing win away to Lithuania. There had been chances missed at both ends by the time Stuart Armstrong rose to head the visitors into a deserved lead after 25 minutes. It wasn&#8217;t long before Andrew Robertson topped that with a sublime looping drive from just outside the box. Scotland&#8217;s pace and control dropped after the break, but James McArthur prodded in a third to settle the game. The win moves Gordon Strachan&#8217;s side ahead of Slovenia,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}