England's front four may well be the key today.

Dele Alli, Adam Lallana, Marcus Rashford and Harry Kane have the ability and the potential to cause damage against most teams - when at their best.

Terry Butcher
Ex-England captain for 5 live Sport

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Scotland think they can spring a surprise. Hampden is a great stadium, it will be noisy, no doubt about that, the England players could well be intimidated.

Scotland played well in the 3-0 defeat in November. Scotland pressed England high at Wembley, England tried to play out from the back and they got caught and I don't think that will happen at Hampden. I expect England to go more direct. If England keep their heads they should win.

Scotland can't buy a win against England at the moment. Is today the day?

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Nov 2016: England 3-0 Scotland (WCQ)

Nov 2014: Scotland 1-3 England (F)

Aug 2013: England 3-2 Scotland (F)

Nov 1999: England 0-1 Scotland (ECQ)

Nov 1999: Scotland 0-2 England (ECQ)

Jun 1996: England 2-0 Scotland (EC)

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BBC Two

England hope to become world champions as they face Venezuela in the Under-20 World Cup final on Sunday.

Paul Simpson's side came from behind to beat Italy 3-1 in the semi-finals and are now aiming to make history.

You can watch the match live on BBC Two and online with coverage starting from 10:50 BST and you can also follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.

Just over half an hour to go until kick-off then and Hampden is filling nicely. It is, of course, a total sell-out. Let's hope that the travelling England fans behave themselves.

After all, The Football Association issued lifetime bans to England fans for the first time after two supporters' club members made Nazi gestures in Germany.

March's friendly against the world champions in Dortmund was marred by the behaviour of some fans.

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Scotland have not beaten England at home since 1985. Their only victory over the past 31 years was a 1-0 win at Wembley in 1999, which was not enough to overturn a 2-0 first-leg loss in a play-off for the 2000 European Championships.

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Remember when England played all of their games away from Wembley? That was superb wasn't it?

Well maybe a similar situation could be brewing north of the border.

The Scottish Football Association's "preferred option" is for the national team to continue to play at Hampden when the lease expires, but the final decision will be based largely on cost.

SFA chief executive Stewart Regan has revealed that the organisation's board is "considering the options" on where Scotland should play from 2020.

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"There are financial implications should we choose to stay," he said.

"There may be commercial implications of taking our games elsewhere."

In March, Scotland played Canada in a friendly at Hibernian's Easter Road, but a crowd of a little more than 9,000 attended the match in the capital.

For Scotland's most recent match at Hampden, a World Cup qualifier against Slovenia in Glasgow's south side, the crowd numbered more than 20,000.

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The Three Lions are looking to win four successive away matches against Scotland for the first time since England won five in a row between 1939 and 1954.

Alvin McCaig in Belfast: "West Brom defender Gareth McAuley starts for Northern Ireland in Baku after recovering from a thigh injury. NI manager Michael O'Neill makes three changes from the team which beat Norway in a Belfast qualifier three months ago.

"Aaron Hughes comes in for the injured Craig Cathcart in central defence while Josh Magennis and Liam Boyce replace absent forward pair Jamie Ward and Conor Washington. Azerbaijan give a debut to Brazilian-born midfielder Richard Almeida and the influential Rashad Sadygov, who missed the 4-0 defeat by NI last November, will captain the hosts."

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Head coach Gordon Strachan says his Scotland players are "physically and mentally" ready.

"The enthusiasm the players have had and the time they've put in, they're ready for the game, physically and mentally," said Strachan.

The Scots lost 3-0 to England at Wembley in October, but Strachan is convinced his side are well placed to avoid a repeat.

BBC Two

England hope to become world champions as they face Venezuela in the Under-20 World Cup final on Sunday.

Paul Simpson's side came from behind to beat Italy 3-1 in the semi-finals and are now aiming to make history.

You can watch the match live on BBC Two and online with coverage starting from 10:50 BST and you can also follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.

This may surprise you, or it may reinforce your belief that qualification games are not the best preparation for major tournaments:

England haven’t lost a qualifying match since October 2009 versus Ukraine, going 34 games without defeat (W26 D8)

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BBC Radio 5 live

There is, of course, full commentary on this afternoon's clash on BBC Radio 5 live.

You can tune in wherever you are on the radio, computer, phone etc - you can also listen in on this page by pressing play.

With John Murray, Ian Dennis, Pat Nevin and Chris Waddle in the comms box you won't miss a thing.

"Oh yes! Ohhhh yesss!"

We've managed an hour without showing this...

Not John Motson's most neutral piece of commentary, perhaps, but a wonderful, wonderful goal from Paul Gascoigne in this fixture 21 years ago.

Apologies to Scotland fans out there. Well, even you must agree that goals don't get much better...

Craig Brown, the last Scotland manager to lead the side to victory over England, is "very confident" the Scots can win.

"I think we're capable of winning 2-1," Brown told BBC Radio Scotland.

"I'm the eternal optimist. I'm genuinely confident. I share Gordon Strachan's feeling that we can win."

They are some of the fittest, most valuable players in the game expected to perform in high-pressure situations, but could English football's elite cut it in the Royal Marines?

The Three Lions' preparation took a surprise twist last weekend, when manager Gareth Southgate arranged a trip to a Commando Training Centre in Devon.

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Twenty England players were taken out of their comfort zones in a 48-hour boot camp designed for marine recruits. "We wanted to come and put the guys into a different environment, something they weren't expecting," Southgate told the FA website.

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Fantastic stuff.

Scotland make two changes to the side that beat Slovenia in their last 2018 World Cup qualifier.

Christophe Berra and Ikechi Anya come in, with Russell Martin and James Forrest making way.

Scotland XI: Gordon, Tierney,Berra, Mulgrew, Robertson, Brown, Morrison, Forrest, Armstrong, Snodgrass, Griffiths.

England make five changes after their win over Lithuania in their last match.

There is a start in midfield for West Brom's Jake Livermore, with Marcus Rashford and Harry Kane also featuring. Chris Smalling and Gary Cahill start at centre-half.

England XI: Hart, Walker, Cahill, Smalling, Bertrand, Livermore, Dier, Lallana, Alli, Rashford, Kane.

Luke Darmanin: Not only this match, but all international matches do not have the build-up/excitement of a big club game. Only in tournaments.

And Scotland make two changes - in come Ikechi Anya and Christophe Berra for Russell Martin and James Forrest.

BBC Two

England hope to become world champions as they face Venezuela in the Under-20 World Cup final on Sunday.

Paul Simpson's side came from behind to beat Italy 3-1 in the semi-finals and are now aiming to make history.

You can watch the match live on BBC Two and online with coverage starting from 10:50 BST and you can also follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.