Euro 2016 qualifying: Matt Ritchie’s goal for Scotland v Poland

“I expect the Scots will play very aggressively and not necessarily in accordance with the rules either”, Lewandowski, whose side drew 2-2 with Scotland in Warsaw, said.

The 58-year-old, who replaced Craig Levein in 2013, comes out of contract at the end of the qualifying campaign but Dalglish is adamant Strachan is the right man for the job moving forward.

“When there are bids and enquiries there is nothing you can do about it. You do not hear anything about it and I just try to keep myself away”.

“I heard there were a lot of posts on the internet, a few were even amusing, but most of all I remember the big screen and all my names under the score 5-1”, he added.

‘It was disappointing to see them lose but I actually thought it was a good performance’. We’ve got a cup-of-tea club after dinner and we sat and watched the football and little Greeg was going daft at the telly.

Scotland have to avoid defeat if they are to cling on to the hope of finishing in third place to clinch the Group D play-off spot.

“I think the effort they put in was fantastic when you consider who they were up against”.

“They’ve done really well this time around, though, especially in the game against Germany. They have been a bit unfortunate”.

Scotland have been here so many times before over the past two decades or so, but this was a particularly traumatising experience for the Tartan Army.

“If I’m like the rest of the nation, I am hugely disappointed for the players”.

It just so happened then that Lewandowski scored with the very last touch of the game – so would he have had that chance had there been no pitch invader? That’s over a year’s work.

After conceding in the opening minutes, Scotland were finding it hard to get into the game in any meaningful way.

“Lewandowski is the guy they hope will get goals for them so we have to pay him attention”.

Strachan, speaking at the national stadium, said: “Ikechi is not going to make it, he has a tight calf so he has gone back to get treatment at Watford”.

“Sometimes in games like that you feel a point means more to us than a win”.

Meanwhile, current Queens Park Rangers striker Charlie Austin, who scored 18 goals in the Premier League last season, was also full of praise for Lewandowski. “No, it’s not about points or money”, he said.

The game against Gibraltar is set to take place at Euro 2004 venue Estadio Algarve, another painful reminder of what Scotland will be missing out on at the finals in France next June and July. That will be a hard one to take.

“Over the year we’ve had a couple of offside goals and a couple of horrendous deflections”.