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Croatia 2-1 Scotland: Key stats

  • Luka Modric, winning his 181st cap, gave his side enough control to lay the platform for this victory, while Kramaric popped up with his 30th international goal on his 99th Croatia appearance.

  • Croatia, with a population smaller than Scotland, are the envy of plenty of European nations with their ability to keep producing world-class talent.

  • As their golden generation rages against the dying of the light, they will do well to emulate this group which keeps churning out results.

  • Match stats

  • Scotland extended their longest winless run in competitive matches in their history (P9 D3 L6), while they've now lost four consecutive games for the first time in five years, last doing so in October 2019.

  • Scotland have lost six points from winning positions in the 2024-2025 Nations League, more than any other team.

  • Having become the oldest player to appear for Scotland when he came on as a substitute against Finland in June, Craig Gordon (41 yrs 286d) is now also the oldest player to start a match in Scotland's history – becoming the third 40+ year old to do so after Jim Leighton and David Weir.

  • Ben Doak (18y 336d) became the youngest player to start a competitive match for Scotland since Willie Johnston against Poland in October 1965 (18y 298d).

  • Croatia have won their last two matches against Scotland, having been winless in their first five meetings beforehand (D3 L2).

  • Ryan Christie scored his seventh goal for Scotland (55th appearance), with five of the seven coming away from home. He's now scored twice in his last six international starts, as many as he netted in his previous 20.

  • Andrej Kramaric scored his 30th goal for Croatia on his 99th appearance, with more than half of these (16) coming since he turned 30, while he's scored twice as many goals (8) than any other Croatian player since the start of 2023.