James McFadden claims Scotland owe their fans some early success in their Euro 2012 campaign after a disappointing World Cup bid.

Scotland begin their European Championship qualifiers in Lithuania tomorrow night following a failed attempt to get to the World Cup Finals under George Burley.

And McFadden said: “We need to get back on track and make it up to ourselves – the manager, the fans, everybody.

“We were so poor last time, we need to get better and basically get off to a good start.”

The Scots began encouragingly under Craig Levein with a 1-0 friendly win over the Czech Republic, but were well beaten 3-0 by Sweden in Stockholm last month.

“We’ve got a lot of making up to do after a bad campaign and poor defending in Sweden,” the Birmingham player said. “But we’ll be ready. Most of the boys have started the season well so it’s looking good.

“We just never played very well last time. In the campaign before we were hard to beat and that wasn’t the case last time.

“We need to forget about the last one and move on to the next – although not totally forget it. We need to try to learn lessons from it and take it into the next campaign.

“This is Craig’s first competitive game. After the Czech Republic game, everything was brilliant. Then we lost to Sweden and everything was rubbish again. It’s just typical.”

McFadden, scorer of great goals against the likes of France and Macedonia, knows he will be lauded as brilliant yet again if he nets in Kaunas tomorrow.