Must do better. Scotland are undefeated after two games and sit at the top of their European championship qualifying group, but forward Kenny Miller knows they have to improve.
Craig Levein’s team narrowly avoided a humiliating draw with Liechtenstein after Stephen McManus claimed a vital late winner at Hampden Park on Tuesday night.
The national team’s stalemate with Lithuania in Kaunas was equally unconvincing and Miller is aware Scotland will need to up their game significantly against the Czech Republic and Group I favourites Spain next month.
The 30-year-old, who scored his 12th international goal against Liechtenstein, said: “I don’t think we performed too badly over the last two games.
“But we have not created enough chances and that is the bottom line. If you are going to win games you need to create chances.
“We only created two in 90 minutes in Lithuania which was not good enough.
“Scotland are not going to score every chance and even the goals we scored against Liechtenstein were not as a result of a one-on-one with the goalkeeper or a cut back and a shot.
“It was a set-piece and a lucky strike from me that got us back into the game.
“We need to improve on our final pass and final cross.
“We have another month before the next qualifiers now and we have to perform better if we are going to get results.
“It was all doom and gloom when we got a point in Lithuania and then they beat the Czech Republic away so it gives us hope.
“We are a match for any team if we carry a bit of luck and play that little bit better than we have been.
“If we can get something in Prague against the Czech Republic it will give us an opportunity to get second spot in the group.”
Miller acknowledged that anything less than a win against group minnows Liechtenstein would have irreversibly damaged Scotland’s chances of reaching Poland and Ukraine in 2012.
He said: “It would have been a poor result for us if we had drawn the game, there is no doubt.
“It would not have ended our chances, but it would have made life tough for us. Fortunately enough we got the three points and we can move on.
“I think Liechtenstein did to us what we do to other teams when we go away.
“We make ourselves hard to beat and play on the counter and that is what they did.
“We committed a lot of men forward and they got the goal.
“We know we can play better than that and hopefully next month we will create more chances.”