Robert Lewandowski admits he’s really not looking forward to playing Scotland

“It’s what I have worked so hard for throughout my career – to test yourself against players like that”.

The Bayern Munich forward is Europe’s in-form striker with 12 goals in his last four games for the German giants.

“We have our game plan, we feel we have prepared well mentally and tactically”.

“So you look at cutting off the supply and also don’t over think about him”. You have to be clever. West Brom duo James Morrison and Darren Fletcher picked up knocks during their team’s defeat to Crystal Palace on Saturday, but Fletcher finished the game and Morrison, who went off with an ankle injury, is suspended for the Poland clash anyway.

“In saying that, we have decisions to make in midfield where we have good players although it does diminish a bit in wide positions with Ikechi leaving”.

Apart from Naismith, every striker scored at the weekend and will consider themselves to be in good form.

“I hope things will go the same way for us as they did back then”, said Boateng, who is set to win his 55th cap. “He didn’t score against us that night”.

The manager admitted he has been weighing up all the options available to him but was non-committal over who would start tonight.

“However a lot of our team members do their job and do the best they can and they are very important. The ball flies towards you, it’s your body and you’re doing it”.

But hopefully he does well and all the players away on worldwide duty come back unscathed.

“We can’t, at this moment in time, but maybe this is the day someone pulls something out of the bag”.

Asked if he would trade those goals for the one he missed against Germany that would have made it 2-2 before halftime in their 3-1 qualifying loss in Frankfurt last month, he said: “I wouldn’t change it, because I believe we will qualify anyway”.

Hanley said: “Jordan has been on fire – he has been banging them in”.

“I relish the challenge”.

However Strachan said: “I don’t know the officials, or who is refereeing, I don’t care”.

Red-hot Griffiths is scoring goals for fun and if Strachan reckons the Poles will play high up the park, the Celtic hitman‘s pace could be flawless for getting in behind their rearguard.

His club form has been replicated on the worldwide stage, where the striker leads the way in the Euro 2016 on 10 goals from eight games.

“He’ll get a fast yellow card if he introduces himself like that and then we will play directly towards him”.