Scotland's stand-in skipper John McGinn has urged his men to avenge the Aviva horror show in Dublin by beating the Republic of Ireland at Hampden tonight to take the country closer to Nations League glory.
Midfielder McGinn will enter the Scotland Hall of Fame by earning his 50th cap and will wear the armband in place of injured Andy Robertson but he is more concerned with building on Wednesday’s fabulous win over Ukraine and righting the wrongs of June’s 3-0 defeat to the Irish at the Aviva Stadium.
He said: “That night certainly hurts. A lot of the summer games hurt us and probably put a little bit more doubt in the back of our heads and the back of everyone’s heads about where we were progressing. That night in Ireland epitomised everything that was going wrong in the summer so we certainly have to try and avenge that on Saturday.”
