Robert Snodgrass has issued a rallying cry to his Scotland teammates to go all out for the win in Slovakia tomorrow night to keep their World Cup dream alive.

The talismanic midfielder was gutted at the lacklustre performance turned in by the Scots as they grabbed a late goal to salvage a home draw with Lithuania at Hampden on Saturday night.

Snodgrass had targeted four points from the fixtures in Glasgow and Trnava this week, and he insists that is still the aim, even though they may not come the way he expected.

If Gordon Strachan’s side are to avoid the ignominy of their dream of making it to Russia going down in flames after just three fixtures, then Snodgrass says they have to take the game to the struggling Slovaks.

And with the quality the Scots have in attacking areas, he believes there is no reason why they can’t come away with a morale-boosting victory on the road.

“It needs to be now that we go there believing we can win the game,” Snodgrass said.

“It will be a tough game, but we’ve got people in the squad that can score goals, so let’s do it.

“It’s still early doors. We wanted to try and win that game with it being a home game.

“We’re believing and we are playing with confidence just now, so it was a case of ‘can we beat Lithuania and move on to Slovakia?’

“We got a point tonight, but hopefully we can get three on Tuesday.

“The pressure will be on them. They are at home and they will also be thinking they need to win the game. We'll go there wanting to win the game.”

The late leveller by James McArthur against Lithuania was of little comfort to the disconsolate Tartan Army, who made their feelings plain about Scotland’s display at the final whistle.

Snodgrass believes though that it might prove a pivotal moment in the campaign.

“It’s disappointing because we wanted to try and win the game, but I think when you get the point in circumstances like that when you’re chasing the game, I think it’s a good point,” he said.

“It keeps that belief there that you’re undefeated, albeit we’re only two games in, but it gives you that desire to keep going.

“We tried. We created chances and that’s what we set out to do. We worked all week on trying to create chances and take them when they come along, but we didn’t take them.

“So I think that’s probably the vital part in that they had two chances and took one of them.

“Of course, especially at home we wanted to try and score three or four and put a show on for the fans and get the three points. We didn’t, but we take the point and move on to Slovakia.”

Although the visiting side emerged from Hampden with more credit than the Scots after a spirited display, there as one area where they didn’t cover themselves in glory.

Snodgrass was unimpressed by their gamesmanship and unsporting behaviour, particularly as they tried to run the clock down by feigning injury after taking the lead.

“They made it horrible at times, going down as if they were shot,” he said. “It was unbelievable.

“For you probably watching it would have been frustrating because it’s stopping the flow of the game.

“I was saying to the referee that there should have been about 20 minutes’ injury time with the amount of times they went down. We’re a fair bunch, but I don’t think they were at times tonight.”