Craig Levein reckons Scotland should follow Switzerland's lead
The Swiss sent the World Cup into a state of shock when beating the reigning European champions 1-0 in Durban on Wednesday thanks to a scrambled goal from Gelson Fernandes.
Ottmar Hitzfeld's side held their shape and defended resolutely against the Spaniards before riding their luck a little to pull off the biggest result of the competition so far.
Levein, currently in Kaunas to spy on our other Euro 2012 rivals Lithuania, believes Switzerland should be praised to the heavens for their display.
And he admits his recording of those 90 minutes will play an important part in his planning for our first meeting with Spain at Hampden in October.
He said: "The credit has to go to Switzerland. I accept that Spain played the better football and things might have been different had they had a little more luck, but Switzerland were dogged and uncompromising.
"That is what any team at our level has to do against a side such as the Spanish.
"I don t want to give too much away nor say anything that might rile Spain, but we have the match recorded and we ll go through it in great detail.
"I went to Innsbruck recently to watch them in a friendly against Saudi Arabia and our chief scout Mick Oliver travelled to Murcia to see them against Poland.
"If both teams play to their strengths, they should win. We know that.
However, if they are maybe a little bit off on the day or we get a bit of luck, you never know what can happen."
Levein steered clear of the glamour of South Africa to take in a four-team tournament in Kaunas over the next few days as he adds to the ever-growing dossier on our European Championship Group I opponents.
He will be in the St Darius and St Girenas Stadium tonight for the home nation s meeting with Latvia and will run the rule over them again when they square up to Estonia on Sunday.
Levein added: "Out of our rivals, I know most about the Spanish and it is good to have to chance to find out more about the others.
"Lithuania are our first opponents in the group and I am really just looking at those first couple of games against them and Liechtenstein right now.
"I have had Lithuania watched already and reckon we will have seen them about five times in person before we actually play them."
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