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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Aidan Smith

Scotland vs England team news confirmed for Hampden Park 'friendly' showdown

Steve Clarke and Gareth Southgate have named their teams for tonight's Hampden Park friendly showdown between Scotland and England.

Both sides will mark 150 years of rivalry when they face each other for the 116th time tonight in the south side of Glasgow.

Now both team lines are in and Scotland have made zero changes from Friday night's victory over Cyprus in Euro qualifying.

SCOTLAND XI: Gunn, Hickey, Porteous, Hendry, Tierney, Robertson, McTominay, Gilmour, McGregor, McGinn, Adams

Subs: McCrorie, Clark, Souttar, Dykes, Christie, McKenna, Armstrong, Ferguson, Nisbet, Jack, Patterson, McLean, Shankland

ENGLAND XI: Ramsdale, Walker, Trippier, Rice, Guehi, Dunk, Foden, Phillips, Kane, Bellingham, Rashford

Subs: Pickford, Chilwell, Johnstone, Henderson, Maguire, Tomori, Saka, Eze, Colwill, Maddison, Gallagher, Wilson, Nketiah

The match is a so-called friendly fixture, but both manager's in the build-up have been keen to stress that they are out to win.

Clarke said:  “Certainly in my lifetime England have probably moved a little bit further in front. We are trying to close the gap on them and we will find out how much we have closed the gap.

“For us, it’s just about trying to continue to improve. I speak about it all the time, game to game. Obviously we played well in Cyprus, it was a comfortable evening and now we see what we can do against a team that’s nominally a pot-one team, always in the later stages of major tournaments.

“That’s the benchmark we want to judge ourselves against and we will find out how close we are.

“I’ve got some things I want to see on the pitch, testing ourselves against top opposition, which we are going to come across more often in the next 12-18 months.

“We play this game and then we go over for a very competitive game against Spain, and then we play France in a friendly. And then next year, after we have hopefully played at Euro 2024, we go into a Nations League group against another three of the top European sides.

“This is where we are as a team and this is where you have to challenge yourself and get better. I believe the more you play against the top sides the better you become. You might suffer a little bit at times but if you suffer in the right way, you can only improve.”

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