Greece vs Scotland LIVE score and goal updates from Nations League playoff in Athens

Scotland are fighting for their Nations League lives – but it's a big ask against a Greece team with their sights set on League A.

International football is back and while there's an air of purgatory about it, the theory it's a bit of a dead rubber won't wash with Steve Clarke.

The boss has made it clear he wants to be competing with the best at the top table and one way to make sure of that is by overcoming the Greeks and maintaining our spot in the top tier.

Performances in the last campaign certainly showed we can do that. Results weren't there to begin with but battling results against Portugal, Croatia and Poland in the second half kept our heads above water and mean our fate is win our own hands once again.

The absence of Ben Doak, a key player in recent games, is a blow, but other rising stars like Lennon Miller and James Wilson have been drafted in and will be hoping for chances to shine in Piraeus.

What Clarke does with the defensive line will also be interesting to see. A back four got results in the absence of Kieran Tierney but with the Arsenal star back and fit, will he revert to the signature five-at-the-back formation much of his early success was built on?

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Bournemouth star Ryan Christie is already out tonight after picking up two group stage bookings - and seven more Scots are a caution away from missing the all-important second leg at Hampden.

A yellow card for skipper Andy Robertson, Billy Gilmour, Grant Hanley, John McGinn, Kenny McLean, Scott McTominay or Tony Ralston would rule them out of Sunday's showdown.

German Tobias Stieler will be the man in the middle, and he's now stranger to a yellow card either. Dishing out