2258: Portugal complete a comfortable win over Scotland. Portgual 2-0 Scotland

2256: Christian Dailly's header from a Graham Alexander goes narrowly wide.

2252: Gary Naysmith volleys over the bar.

2248: Scott Severin replaces Lee Wilkie

2247: Sergio Conceicao's curling shot goes just over the bar.

2241: Rab Douglas gathers Sergio Conceicao's shot at the second attempt.

2234: Gary Naysmith wins a corner for Scotland. From the resulting kick, Steven Pressley is penalised for a foul.

2233: Gareth Williams replaces Paul Lambert

2232: Steven Pressley clears for Scotland after another sweeping Portuguese move.

2222: Nuno Gomes turns Steven Pressley but his shot is narrowly wide.

2218: The ball breaks to Stevie Crawford but the striker screws his shot well wide.

2210: The second half kicks off.

2153: Scotland go in at half-time trailing by two goals. Portugal 2-0 Scotland

2148: Tiago Mendes' hits the bar with a flying header from Luis Figo's cross.

2142: Quim Silva is unable to hold Graham Alexander's low powerful shot, but no Scotland player is on hand to pick up the rebound.

2139: A Paul Lambert shot is deflected wide.

2133: Scott Dobie turns and shoots quickly though his shot is held up by the sodden pitch.

2118: Derk McInnes comes on for Russell Anderson, who is stretchered off.

2127: Quim Silva punches the ball clear from a corner in the process injuring Russell Anderson.

2124: Portugal work the ball swiftly to the edge of the box, but Luis Figo's shot goes is too high.

2122: Pauleta shrugs off Maurice Ross to grab his second goal of the night. Portugal 2-0 Scotland

2119: Lee Wilkies handballs to concede the penalty as Pauleta threatens. Rab Douglas throws himself to his right to save Luis Figo's effort.

2115: Gary Naysmith wins Scotland's first corner, though from the resulting kick Christian Dailly is penalised for a foul.

2113: Pauleta knocks the ball home from Sergio Conceicao's driven cross. Portugal 1-0 Scotland

2108: Portual put Scotland on the defensive winning two early corners.

2106: Portugal kick off in extremely wet conditions, with the ball holding up on a sodden pitch.

2056: The Republic of Ireland achieve a creditable 0-0 draw in Athens. Greece 0-0 Republic of Ireland

2051: Rory Delap replaces Glen Crowe.

2036: Theo Zagorakis' low shot through a crowded penalty area goes narrowly wide.

2031: Shay Given is again out quickly to snuff out the danger from Angelos Charisteas, who is injured in the process of the Newcastle goalkeeper's challenge.

2026: Shay Given makes a brave save from Dimitrios Papadopoulos.

2025:Greece make two more substitutions, with the former Leicester City midfielder Theo Zagorakis coming on.

2009: The second half kicks off. The Greek team bring on seven substitutes at the restart.

1952: The half-time whistle goes.

1947: Stylianos Giannakopoulos' poor control allied to a bumpy pitch sees a good chance go to waste.

1944:Shay Given gets down to save Vassilis Tsartas' deflected shot.

1935:Shay Given does well to rush out of his goal and clear the ball as Greece threaten.

1917: Colin Healey's header from an Irish corner goes wide.

1914: Gary Doherty heads back across goal, Lee Carsley miskicks, but the ball falls to Glen Crowe, whose shot is narrowly wide.

1913: Shay Given almost concedes a goal with an embarrassing miskick that fortunately for the Newcastle goalkeepers runs away for a corner.

1912Glen Crowe swivels to volley, but his shot is straight at Antonis Nikopolidis.

1911:Gary Doherty blocks Nikos Dabizas' shot from a Greek corner.

1906: The Republic of Ireland kick off.

Team news

Eircom League striker Glen Crowe, of Bohemians, makes his senior international debut for the Republic of Ireland.

Greece are captained by Newcastle defender Nikos Dabizas.

Greece: Nikopolidis, Seitaridis, Fyssas, Dabizas, Kyrgiakos, Basinas, Giannakopoulos, Karagounis, Charisteas, Tsartas, Themistoklis.
Subs: Venetidis, Amanatidis, Goumas, Kafes, Zagorakis, Georgiadis, Patsatzoglou, Hiotas, Papadopoulos.

Rep of Ireland: Given, Finnan, O'Shea, Cunningham, Dunne, Healy, Carsley, Holland, McPhail, Doherty, Crowe.
Subs: Breen, Partridge, Delap, Quinn, Hoolahan, Colgan.

Referee: A Trentalange (Italy).