Scotland v Ukraine result - Ukraine win to set up Wales clash

Given the curtailing of their domestic league due to the war, Ukraine will be leaning heavily on their starts that are dotted around the European leagues tonight. Benfica’s Roman Yaremchuk will be up front on his own tonight while Andriy Yarmolenko, recently released by West Ham United, wins his 107th cap. And what about this guy? Oleksandr Zinchenko produced a star turn as a substitute to win the Premier League for Manchester City just over a week ago; far more impressively, he has been an outstanding ambassador for his country in the most horrifying circumstances.

A big absence tonight for Scotland is Kieran Tierney, who missed the back end of the season for Arsenal through injury. His fellow left-back, Andy Robertson, captains the team just four days after Liverpool's defeat to Real Madrid in Paris. The now familiar front two of Lyndon Dykes and Che Adams start up front.

It looks like Ukraine are going 4-1-4-1 tonight, as follows:

Bushchan; Karavaev, Zabarnyi, Matvienko, Mykolenko; Stepanenko; Yarmolenko, Malinovskyi, Zinchenko, Tysgankov; Yaremchuk

Here's the home side for the evening:

Tonight’s match is the first of two games that will decide the final European qualifying place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Scotland are aiming to reach their first World Cup for a generation, having been absent from this tournament since 1998.

For the Ukraine, there is that at stake and more. This match should have taken place in March but was postponed due to Vladimir Putin’s brutal assault on Ukraine and its people, a war that is ongoing. Tonight, Oleksandr Petrakov’s team have the chance to lift the moral and spirit of those back home with a victory that could mean so much.

The practical prize on offer is the opportunity to play Wales in Cardiff on Sunday for that final place in Qatar; whoever wins that will then go into Group B at the winter World Cup with England, Iran and the USA. The more intangible prize for the Ukrainian players is a victory with an impact far beyond Hampden Park. Everyone invested in Scotland's progress will be more than aware of that too.

It's sure to be an emotional one tonight; teams incoming shortly.