Smith: Scotland won’t be afraid of France

SCOTLAND will need to fire on all cylinders to get a positive result in their qualifier against World Cup runners-up France, coach Walter Smith said yesterday.

“During qualification for the last World Cup, they (France) had a few off-days and still never lost a game so we will have to play extremely well to achieve anything at all,” said Smith.

“France are at the top of their game but we would hope we could lift our performance and take something from the match.”