Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam has been ruled out of Scotland's Euro2012 qualifier against Lithuania on Tuesday night.

The 25-year old sustained a hip injury in Saturday's 2-2 draw with Czech Republic and will not take his place in the vital meeting with the Lithuanians at Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Saturday's result means that Scotland sit five points behind the second-placed Czechs, but they do have a game in hand, so if they can triumph tomorrow they will be within two points prior their away meetings with Liechtenstein and group leaders Spain in October.

But the match against the 58th-ranked Lithuanian side, who are level on points with Scotland, will be a difficult task as manager Craig Levein will have to deal with the absence of Adam along with Celtic midfielder Scott Brown and Cardiff City striker Kenny Miller, who are both suspended for yellow card accumulation.

Levein may be forced to play Blackburn Rovers signing David Goodwillie as a lone striker as Brighton star Craig Mackail-Smith left the Scotland camp due to a back injury which forced him out of Saturday's fixture.

What's more is the full-back Phil Bardsley is in doubt and Alan Hutton may be placed on the bench as he put in a full shift on the weekend after hardly playing at club level leading up to that.

"I'll obviously need to check with the full-backs situation, with Bardsley being injured, and also see how Alan Hutton is, bearing in mind he has hardly played," Levein said.

"My original idea was to play Hutton in the Czech game, and, depending on how he went, put Steven Whittaker in for the second game. But Phil getting a calf problem has kind of scuppered that, unless there is rapid improvement from him."