Ben Doak coldly tells £77m victim 'I don't see faces' as Liverpool prodigy shows the world his unbreakable confidence

Ben Doak says he doesn’t see opposition faces or reputations when he walks onto the park - just a blank figure waiting to be taken on.

Well you can bet big Josko Gvardiol will be seeing the Scotland starlet’s coupon in his dreams tonight. Or nightmares. For the second time in little over a month the 19-year-old gave the Manchester City superstar a roasting on the right wing as Scotland kept their Nations League top tier survival hopes alive against Croatia.

Doak’s 90-minute head-to-head with Gvardiol on the Hampden touchline was as entertaining as anything else on show as Scotland ended a 13-month wait for a competitive win against the 10-man Croats. Steve Clarke showed faith in the hitkid by handing him his third successive start and boy did he repay the boss with as gallus a showing as Hampden has seen in a long time. It culminated in the little wing wizard’s 86th minute dart to the touchline and cut back for John McGinn to slam home the only goal of the game.

Roughly an hour earlier the Liverpool kid - on-loan at Middlesbrough - left Gvardiol trying to unscrew himself from the Hampden turf with a trademark turn and nutmeg before setting up Scott McTominay for a crack at goal. To his credit Gvardiol gave a bit back. Having been given an introduction to Doak’s powers in last month’s 2-1 defeat in Zagreb, the Man City man wasted no time getting a hold of his tormentor in Glasgow last night as he bodied him over the touchline in the opening minutes.

But it was only lighting the fuse on a fiery battle in which Doak, once again, showed he fears absolutely nobody on the biggest stage of all. He said: “Gvardiol’s one of the best in the world, isn’t he? So it’s good to test yourself against players of that calibre. We both had