Nations League

Find out all the key talking points going into this week's final set of UEFA Nations League fixtures.

Copyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Karl Hein’s Estonia will seal promotion back into League C should they beat Malta in Tallinn on Friday night. Then Tierney will head to Poland for the return fixture against Ukraine, who will be without captain Oleksandr Zinchenko through injury.

SCOTLAND vs. UKRAINE · Time: 2:45 p.m. ET · Where: Hampden Park (Glasgow, Scotland) · Channel: Fubo Sports Network · Stream: FuboTV.

That includes a victory in the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup Qualifying Playoffs. They lead the group by just one point heading into Wednesday with a 2-0-1 record, as they also have a 1-0 win over Ireland, along with beating Armenia 3-0 in their second contest of the season. Though their first three matches, they have surrendered just one goal, that coming in a 1-1 draw against the Republic of Ireland in their most recent match.

Minute-by-minute report: Scotland need a win to go top of their group. Join Scott Murray for the action from Hampden.

38 min: McTominay intercepts and slips infield to McGinn, just to the right of the Ukraine D. 44 min: Armstrong, Adams and Christie get in each other’s way on the edge of the Ukraine box. 60 min: McGinn takes down a high ball to the left of the Ukraine D. 52 min: Gordon races out of his area to blooter clear under pressure from Yarmolenko, who is tearing down the middle. 56 min: McGinn plays a cute pass around the corner to send Tierney off down the left. But the ball pinballs back towards Hickey, who drives towards the bottom right. The ball breaks to Tierney, who rolls down the inside-left channel towards McGinn, just inside the box. only to be relieved of possession by the excellent Hickey. He rises miles above Malinovskyi and plants a header into the bottom right. Fraser picks up the clearance and cuts in from the left before fizzing a low shot wide left. Dykes hangs high to outjump Ihnatenko and plants another into the bottom right. Scotland go top of Group B1, and next up are the Republic of Ireland on Saturday.

Qualifying for Euro 2024 may still be six months away but in one way it is well under way due to the impact of the Nations League.

Winners of the Nations League groups in Leagues A, B and C automatically qualify for the play-offs. The twenty teams who finish first and second in the ten groups will join Germany in qualifying for the tournament. More importantly, however, it means if Scotland fail in qualification for Euro 2024 they will get a second shot via the play-offs.

England face Italy and Germany in the UEFA Nations League 2022-23 group stages. Get fixtures, schedule, start times and check where to watch live streaming ...

Italy vs England - 12:15 AM IST The top teams play in Group A. Watch live streaming of England vs Italy and England vs Germany in the UEFA Nations League 2022-23 League A.

Two goals from Lyndon Dykes and John McGinn's opener earned a convincing 3-0 win for Scotland over Ukraine in the Nations League.

Tierney was next to test Trubin, with an effort which the goalkeeper scrambled to save. Patterson was removed from proceedings on a stretcher, with Aaron Hickey the replacement at right-back. This was the precursor to a decent Scotland spell, Ryan Christie’s pass narrowly evading Adams before Stuart Armstrong stung Trubin’s palms with a fierce shot. The atmosphere thereafter was subdued, which was strange for a match of this magnitude. The woodwork saved the visitors after Adams met a John McGinn cross with his head. One minute of applause for the late Queen Elizabeth II, a patron of the Scottish FA, was punctured by audible booing from a section of the home support.