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Euro 2016 Qualifying: Poland 2 Scotland 2

The home fans had barely finished celebrating Saturday's famous 2-0 triumph over their world champion neighbours when Krzysztof Maczynski fired in off the right-hand post after 12 minutes, prolonging the feel-good factor at the Stadion Narodowy.

However, Shaun Maloney brought Adam Nawalka's men back down to earth with a bump when he equalised with a neat finish from 12 yards.

After Poland had looked the more likely to find the net in the early part of the second period, Steven Naismith got the deftest of touches to a James Morrison free-kick to put Scotland ahead.

That joy was shortlived, however, as Steven Fletcher found Anya with a wonderful angled long ball over the top before the Watford man squared it to Maloney, who guided home from a central position in the penalty area, with marker Lukasz Szukala in no man's land.

But it was Scotland who made the breakthrough when Naismith diverted Morrison's free-kick just inside the right-hand upright from close-range three minutes before the hour.

Poland continued to look the most threatening after Naismith's strike, with Milik heading onto the roof of the net from a cross, before then seeing a low ball from the left roll agonisingly out of the reach of a poised Robert Lewandowski.

Maloney forced Wojciech Szczesny to push over his crossbar with a powerful effort in the 75th minute, but Milik finally got his reward a minute later.

Played in brilliantly by Jedrzejczyk, the 20-year-old - scorer of Poland's first goal against the Germans on Saturday - sent a sublime first-time left-footed strike beyond a helpless Marshall.

The goalkeeper was alert to the danger soon afterwards when Lewandowski tried his luck from a similar position, before Grzegorz Krychowiak headed narrowly wide from the resulting corner.

Sebastian Mila - who scored the other against Germany - hit the post late on, but Scotland held on for an important and hard-fought point.