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Poland v Scotland: Key stats

  • Poland have lost just two of their 12 meetings with Scotland in all competitions (W4 D6), losing friendly matches against them in June 1958 (1-2) and March 2014 (0-1).

  • Scotland have lost just one of their six away games against Poland in all competitions (W2 D3), going down 1-0 in a May 1980 friendly.

  • Poland lost 5-1 against Portugal last time out in the Nations League, their biggest defeat in all competitions in over two years (1-6 v Belgium in June 2022).

  • Scotland's 1-0 win against Croatia last time out in the Nations League ended a 10-game winless run in competitive fixtures (D4 L6).

  • Poland haven't kept a clean sheet in any of their last 10 matches in all competitions, conceding at least three goals in each of their last three (11 in total).

  • Scotland have conceded exactly twice in each of their last four competitive away games - they've never conceded multiple goals in five consecutively on the road before.

  • Nicola Zalewski - who scored the winner against Scotland in the reverse fixture – has scored the joint-most goals (2) and had the most touches in the opposition box (16) of any Poland player in this season’s UEFA Nations League campaign.

  • John McGinn's winner against Croatia last time out was his 19th goal for Scotland – only four players have ever scored more for the Scottish men's team (Denis Law 30, Kenny Dalglish 30, Hughie Gallacher 23, Lawrie Reilly 23).