KIM LITTLE and Rachel Corsie are likely to be used sparingly, if at all, when Scotland play Norway in a friendly at Firhill tonight. The match is a warm-up for the opening Euro 2017 qualifying group match in Slovenia on Tuesday.

Little and Corsie played for Seattle Reign in their 3-0 win over Washington Spirit on Sunday night, a match which has taken Seattle into the NWSL play-off final for a second successive season. With the time difference, they didn't join up with the rest of Scotland players until late on Tuesday.

Neither took a full part in training at Firhill yesterday, and nor did defenders Ifeoma Dieke and Emma Mitchell, who have injury concerns.

"It was a tough game for Kim and Rachel on Sunday and they had a long flight to Scotland," coach Anna Signeul said. "The focus is on being at our best against Slovenia, so if any of these four players don't play against Norway that is okay for us. We want to have fresh players on Tuesday."

Norway, who are 10th in the FIFA rankings, are still smarting from being knocked out of this year's World Cup by England. They won the competition in 1995, and were also Olympic champions in Sydney five years later.

While Signeul has been in the job for 10 years, this will be a first game in charge for her Norwegian counterpart Roger Finjord. The former assistant stepped up when Even Pellerud, who led the country to their World Cup success and returned for a second spell in 2012, resigned after the defeat to England in the last 16.

Lisa Evans, who joined Bayern Munich in the summer, is likely to be a key player for the Scots tonight. She has played in all three of her new club's league matches this season – all won – and opened her account with a goal against her former club, Turbine Potsdam.

"It's a 100 per cent different environment," Evans observed. "There's a lot of positivity and the coach is willing to try new things and listens a lot to the players – that's the biggest difference [from Potsdam]."

Having become accustomed to playing at the highest levels in the club game, Evans now wants to taste the same with Scotland – and that means qualifying for Euro 2017 in the Netherlands.

The combination of an expanded tournament in Holland and a very benign Group 1 draw mean that failure is not an option.

"We're in a different position now," Evans acknowledged. "We're not looking at the group and thinking we will maybe qualify this time. We've got the pressure on us to do it."