http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19513338 Scotland 3 (Armstrong 63, Griffiths 68, Watt 83pen) Luxembourg 0 Scotland U21 01 Archer 02 Jack Booked 03 Hanlon 04 Wilson 05 Perry (Mclean - 85' ) 06 Kelly Booked (Pawlett - 64' ) 07 Armstrong 08 Allan 11 McCabe 09 Griffiths (Watt - 78' ) 10 Russell Substitutes 12 Bain 13 Toshney 14 Shinnie 15 Mclean 16 Pawlett 18 Wylde 17 Watt A 3-0 win at home to Luxembourg still leaves us with an outside chance of qualification but, realistically, we would need the Dutch to lose their last game at home and us to win in Austria to progress, as I can't see us finishing as one of the 4 best 2nd place teams. We're the only unbeaten team in the group but we've had too many draws, especially at home. A win against either Austria or Bulgaria would have left us in a much stronger position but now we need to hope the Dutch have a massive slip up. A pity as well after a fantastic away victory in Nijmigen earlier in the competition.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19552167 Scotland's Under-21 European Championship qualification hopes were dashed after Austria came from behind to win with a stoppage-time goal. Austria 3 (Gregoritsch 8, Weimann 75, Holzhauser 90) Scotland 2 (Watt 54, Russell 75) Disappointing end for the u-21's Euro qualifiers. Holland had already won the group and we were already assured of 2nd but only the 4 best 2nd place teams go into a playoff and this defeat means we wont be one of them. It was hard for Billy Stark who was running out of striking options with Rhodes promoted to the 1st team (to sit on the bench...) and Griffiths injured but the defence struggled as well and committed the cardinal sin of conceding a goal straight after scoring. Jordan Rhodes and James Forrest both started this campaign and moved up to the full team, which is after all, what the u-21's are all about. And with players such as our two goalscorers tonight coming through, the future at least, still looks pretty healthy.