Darijo Srna: Mkhitaryan is important player for Shakhtar

PROBABLE LINEUPS CROATIA Pletikosa Srna, Lovren, Simunic, Strinic Sammir, Rakitic, Badelj, Kovacic Eduardo, Mandzukic SCOTLAND McGregor Hutton, Hanley, Martin, Whittaker Bannan, McArthur, Snodgrass, Morrison, Maloney Griffiths Scotland ...

Corner taken short by Ivan Rakitic. Jordan Rhodes gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Mateo Kovacic. Darijo Srna takes the direct free kick. 66:00 The official flags Mario Mandzukic offside. Allan McGregor takes the indirect free ...

GORDON Strachan has never felt comfortable being fussed over and fawned about, and in truth he did not always look as though he knew what to do with all the handshakes and pats on the back coming his way as an exhausted, sweating party of players, ...

Croatia suffered a shock 1-0 home defeat by beleaguered Scotland in a World Cup qualifier after midfielder Robert Snodgrass struck against the run of play in the first half. Scotland have no chance of reaching next year's finals in Brazil but the ...

WHAT to make of the miracle in the Maksimir Stadium? Few men could be more capable of interpreting the significance of Scotland's finest international result since Paris than Craig Brown. The former Scotland manager was at Hampden yesterday on ...

Scotland claimed their first win in World Cup qualifying as they claimed a brilliant 1-0 win in Croatia. The only goal of the game came in the first-half as Robert Snodgrass slid home ahead of Stipe Pletikosa to give Gordon Strachan a famous ...

Kevin De Bruyne scored a goal and assisted on another to give Belgium a 2-1 win over Serbia and the lead in its World Cup qualifying group. Gordon Strachan's men headed into the match already out of the race for Brazil in 2014, massive underdogs ...

Robert Snodgrass helped Scotland to a shock win in Zagreb Robert Snodgrass was the hero as Scotland pulled off a major shock by picking up their first win of the World Cup qualifying campaign against Croatia in Zagreb tonight. Gordon Strachan's ...

Goaltending offsets Mario Balotelli's ejection Ten-man Italy escaped with a 0-0 draw against the Czech Republic in a World Cup qualifier Friday in Prague after star striker Mario Balotelli was sent off in the second half. The draw still allowed ...