Match Day: Scotland 0 - 0 Norway

Scotland top group 9 this evening, but a staggering miss from three yards out from Chris Iwelumo - making his debut for Scotland - may well come back to haunt George Burley's side. The Netherlands, Scotland's next opponents in March next year, play Iceland this evening in Rotterdam and will overtake the Scots should they win.

In an exciting end-to-end game with many chances, Wolves player Chris Iwelumo missed probably the easiest goal he would ever score. The 30 year-old striker, who came on for James Morrison to partner Hib's Stephen Fletcher (in place of lone striker James McFadden) in a two-man attack somehow managed to sidefoot Gary Naysmith's cross past the post from three yards out.

At this stage, we'd have expected Scotland to have had at least six points from a possible nine, a points total that would have seen them go into the international break with some comfort before they Holland game. But the defeat to Macedonia and the points dropped against Norway may make Scotland's qualification changes that bit harder. There's no need to panic just yet - Scotland still have to play our Iceland, Holland and Macedonia at Hampden and Burley should be looking to get six points from those games. Holland will be tough to beat (though not impossible, the Dutch where lucky to come away with a win in Macedonia) and no one is expecting too much from those games but let the two lessons be learned from tonight's performance: Scotland play better with two up front, and you cannot afford to drop points at home.