Scotland players during a training session ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifying match at Bishopton, Britain on Monday.
London: Gordon Strachan has demanded Scotland get to train on Lithuania’s plastic pitch in the exact condition it will be during their crucial World Cup qualifier.
Strachan’s side are due to play their first ever full international clash on an artificial surface when the face Lithuania at the LFF Arena in Vilnius on Friday.
Modern plastic pitches are generally more reliable than the widely disparaged models first used in the 1980s by the likes of QPR and Luton.
But Scotland manager Strachan knows from experience that an astro turf pitch can behave in a different manner depending on how much moisture is applied. He was in charge of Celtic in 2007 when they took on Spartak Moscow in a Champions League qualifier.
