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England's squad features six uncapped players. They are:

• Lewis Hall (defender, Newcastle)
• Taylor Harwood-Bellis (defender, Southampton)
• Curtis Jones (midfielder, Liverpool)
• Jarell Quansah (defender, Liverpool)
• Morgan Rogers (forward, Aston Villa)
• James Trafford (goalkeeper, Burnley)

Here is Steve's suggestion if you missed it earlier

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Greece head coach Ivan Jovanovic has said his side need to be at the very top of their game if they are to have any chance of beating England for the second time in two months.

"To be honest, in England we had to have a perfect match in order to be able to get a result," said Jovanovic this week.

"[Against England tonight] it's another one where we have to have a perfect match again in order to be able to get a result, in order to capitalise on the position the team is in at this stage."

England may be underperforming in the eyes of the British media. But the Greece coaching team still see the Three Lions, outwardly at least, as favourites.

We'll be chatting Northern Ireland shortly, but let's briefly turn back to some England build-up.

A Brazilian called Willian who spent 10 years in the UK.

It couldn't be, could it?

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This will be Claudio Ranieri's first manager job since leaving Cagliari in the summer.

Ranieri has managed Roma twice before. From 2009-2011 and in 2019.

In the 2010-11 season Roma narrowly missed out on the Serie A title and lost the Copa Italia final to treble-winning Inter.

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Just five months after announcing his retirement from club management, 73-year-old Claudio Ranieri is back in the dug out.

The former Premier League winner has been named as the new head coach of his boyhood club AS Roma, returning for a third spell in charge of the Serie A side.

He’s their third manager of the season after Danielle De Rossi and Ivan Juric were both sacked.

Ranieri will be in charge until the end of the season and the club say he'll then "transition into a senior executive role, where he will be an adviser to the ownership on all sporting matters."

He's taken charge of 18 club sides and had a brief stint as Greece boss in a managerial career that spans almost four decades back to 1986.

There's been another update in the allegations surrounding Premier League official David Coote.

Uefa have said they have launched their own investigation into a potential violation of its disciplinary regulations.

Yesterday, English referees' body PGMOL said it is taking new allegations around Premier League official Coote "very seriously".

Scotland

Scotland midfielder Scott McTominay on the team's overall performance in 2024: "There have been some positives moments in there, but it's part of the game that it's never going to be all sunshine and rainbows. You have to ride the waves and not get too emotional and keep a table balance of where we want to get to as a group.

"The manager and the coaching staff are firmly the ones that we trust and they want to push us in the right direction going forwards. All the ideas that they have given us are brilliant and training is really, really good as well.

"It's just a matter of time before the wins start coming."

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Scotland midfielder Scott McTominay on the positives of the Nations League campaign despite the results: "In terms of the way we're playing, the slight change in shape allows us a little bit more time with that ball and we can get a higher percentage of possession.

"For us, the only thing that is missing is us actually putting the ball in the back of the net an getting the crucial wins that we have had in previous camps.

"It's not a panic, it's not a big disaster and stuff like that. We want to keep performing that way we have been doing then the result will follow."

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Scotland midfielder Scott McTominay on the club versus country debate: "I can't comment on that but in terms of what I see, and the characters that we have within our group, we have great people, professional people, who come in to Scotland to work and train as hard as they can.

"You look at some of the characters we do have and it speaks volumes because the amount of caps that they have and the professional years that they have played the game. And for us, for the manager, and for me, we're so grateful to be a part of a great group.

"The only thing we are missing at the minute is winning."

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Scotland manager Steve Clarke: "We have improved and we have defended well. We have shown that we can be competitive at this level. We might not have got the results we want, but there's scope to improve a little bit more.

"We go into the next qualification campaign, which is for the 2026 World Cup, and when we are drawn against the teams from Pot 1 there, we will know we can face them and be competitive against them."

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Scotland manager Steve Clarke on his side's prospects in League A: "With the performances we had, I think we deserved more points than what we have. But we still have games to come.

"We still have the chance to be very competitive in this group and stay at this level, which is what we all want.

"Croatia are well organised and a big threat going forward. They have one little magician in the midfield [Luka Modric] who can run the game, if you let him. We did not allow him to do that in Croatia and hopefully, we don't allow him on Friday as well.

"We recognise the quality of our opponents, but hopefully, they know they are in for two tough games as well - both here against Croatia and in Poland."

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Scotland manager Steve Clarke on lessons learned from the Nations League: "The players have learned that they can be competitive. It was a difficult match in a difficult atmosphere last time in Croatia. But they learned they can compete against these top sides.

"That's been one of the things that we've learned during the Nations League. But we still need to find that extra little detail to turn these performances into results. We got the point in the last game and we now need to see if we can get six points in the next two games.

"When we get to the final third, we need to find that extra quality to create not just a chance, but a chance we can turn into goal. We speak at lot to the players about where we think we need to improve and they take it on board. So hopefully we can see that in the next two games."

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BBC Sport Scotland commentator Liam McLeod has taken a look at what the next five days could hold for Scotland's World Cup ambitions.

• What damage has slow Nations League start done?
• Can Scotland still turn it round?
• What happens if they don't make top pot?
• Is pot two still an option?

Read Liam's full story here

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Scotland have won once in their past 16 matches so perhaps fresh ideas are needed, however, things are looking better than they did for the last double header in October.

Influential midfielder John McGinn is back after injury, while Scott McKenna, Jack Hendry, Greg Taylor, Lawrence Shankland and Tommy Conway also return.

You can pick your starting XI and formation for the game against Croatia on Friday here