Scotland v Croatia Betting Tips [15 November 2024]

Scotland will welcome Croatia for their Match Day 5 Nations League encounter in Glasgow. For the hosts, it hasn’t been an easy run-out in League A, Group 1. Let’s look at the preview and prediction of this match. 

Scotland are among the four teams in League A that haven't registered a win yet. Of the four matches, they recently banked their first point. They did it in a gritty fight to draw 0-0 at home against Portugal. With that, they ended a four-match losing run, but they still remain winless in eight matches. 

As they hope to avoid automatic relegation, Scotland must go into this game seeking a win.

Croatia, just like Scotland, are looking at this as a must-win tie. If they falter here and third placed Poland beat Portugal, then Croatia will face a nervy Match Day 6. To make things easier, they only need to win here to book their ticket for the quarters. 

Such a result would also be the confirmation of Scotland’s relegation. A lot is working in Croatia’s favor as far as this group is concerned. Croatia are unbeaten in three Nations League matches and they also beat Scotland in the last two meetings.

With just a win in the last 16 matches, Scotland aren’t carrying into this game a great run. That win was against a really low-ranking opponent – Gibraltar. Here they face a formidable opponent and one they haven't really done well against lately. In the last two matches against Croatia, the Scots lost.

Both these nations had shaky starts to the Nations League, but while Scotland are still struggling, Croatia have picked up well. Our prediction for Scotland v Croatia is for Croatia to win.