Spain striker Fernando Llorente insists Vicente Del Bosque's side must "forget the world title and start from scratch".

The world champions travel to Liechtenstein this weekend to begin their qualifying campaign for Euro 2012, just over two years since they lifted the European Championship crown in 2008.

Less than two months ago, Llorente and company were celebrating their maiden World Cup success in South Africa but the Athletic Bilbao striker realises they must come back down to earth quickly for the Group I campaign.

"The important thing is to forget the world title and start from scratch," said the target man, who made one appearance, albeit an impressive one, against Portugal in the last-16 in Cape Town.

"There are new challenges and we must work with humility," he underlined.

Barcelona captain Carles Puyol was forced to pull out of the Spain squad after feeling pain in his left leg and yesterday it was confirmed he had suffered an injury to his left calf.

The defender has earned close on 100 caps for his country and club colleague Sergio Busquets bemoaned his team-mate's absence.

"Puyol is very important here and to get 100 games is a significant number," he said.

"We hope he recovers as soon as possible."

Elsewhere tomorrow Scotland face Lithuania on away turf looking to improve their recent record in qualifying competition.

Manager Craig Levein has promised the nation a much-improved display in his first competitive match.

Scotland's preparations for their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign suffered a blow last month when a weakened team lost 3-0 in Sweden.

But Levein will recall Kenny Miller and David Weir against Lithuania in Kaunas and the former Scotland defender is also able to call upon the services of experienced players such as Stephen McManus, Paul Hartley, Lee McCulloch, Scott Brown and Alan Hutton.

"I assure you we will be better than we were in Sweden," Levein said.

"I hesitate to go back too often to the Sweden game. There are lessons to be learned but there could be seven or eight players different in this match from the last one so it's probably not a fair comparison.

"We have learned lessons and the most important one is the manager has learned that friendlies are quite important.

"The tempo of training has improved enormously and I think it's because of the importance of the game.

"The team hasn't been named and all the players are wanting to be selected. We have some of the experienced players back in, guys who have done things properly throughout their career.

"They set the professionalism in training so it's no coincidence that the tempo has improved. I have been happy with what has happened this week, although sometimes that doesn't always manifest itself on the pitch."

Czech Republic, the group's fifth team, are not in action until next week.