There are only five nations classified below the world ranking in the world ranking, including the Virgin and San Marino islands of the US and the US and San Marino. And even the San Marinese defeated Liechtenstein twice last year.
They won only once in their last 48 a 1-0 hit games on Hong Kong in a friendly last October and have a squad made mainly from mid-time at home players who perform at the lowest places of Swiss leagues.
In the Euro 2012 qualifiers, manager Craig Levein was taken to sweat as a header of Stephen McManus in the sixth minute of stopping time in Hampden spared the Scots one of their most embarrassing results of all time, when they worked with a 2-1 win.
It was not exactly a routine victory 13 months later, on the return in Vaduz, with the lonely goal of Craig Mackail-Smith in Scotland.
This has tones of the friendly with Gibraltar for 12 months, which was another robust case and may be similar this time at the end of a long season.
Regardless of the result, Clarke will have a lot to reflect before the trip to Copenhagen to face the main seeds of Denmark at the beginning of the fall when real things start again.
