Scotland assistant Stuart McCall says Georgia have improved

Scotland assistant Stuart McCall says Group D rivals Georgia are improving all the time and is expecting that to show in Friday's European Championship qualifier in Tbilisi.

The game in Eastern Europe is the first of a double header, live on Sky Sports, which will be followed by Gordon Strachan's side hosting world champions Germany at Hampden on Monday evening.

The Scots beat Georgia 1-0 when the sides met at Ibrox in October last year and expectation levels are high among the tartan army as their next opponents have failed to take any points off Germany, Poland or the Republic of Ireland so far.

The Poles have put eight goals past Georgia in two games but McCall has seen improvement since Kakhaber Tskhadadze took over as manager from former Dundee and Newcastle player Temuri Ketsbaia.

"We had a look back at their game against Poland where they got beat 4-0 in the last one," the former Motherwell and Rangers manager said.

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"But it wasn't until the 89th minute when Poland got their second. (Robert) Lewandowski got a hat-trick in 89, 91 and 93 [minutes]. In the last 10 minutes of that game Georgia could quite easily have got a draw.

"They are improving and even though we played well at Ibrox against them, we only managed to win 1-0 with an own goal, so it will be tight.

"I don't think there will be many goals in it, but as long as we get more than them then I'll be happy."

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Scotland sit third in the table on 11 points, three behind Poland and two behind Germany, who play each other in Frankfurt later on Friday night.

McCall added: "Who knows, if we come back with a point, that could be a good point if we go and beat Poland. It's a game that we are looking to win - all our other rivals have been there and won. It's certainly the intention that we go there and be positive and hopefully get the three points.

"It would put us right up there. I would expect Ireland to win the next two games and probably go up to 15 points. But we have got to just focus on ourselves and hopefully we can come back to Monday night, a full house at Hampden and have a real go then."

Scotland face a five-hour flight home in the early hours of Saturday before the Germany clash, but that will not be taken into account when picking the team for the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena.

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"The team will be selected solely on this one-off game," McCall said. "It's too big to start thinking about Germany.

"At the beginning of the campaign, I think anyone thought whatever you take off Germany would be a bonus. But it hasn't seemed to be the case now because they have had a little bit of a stutter.

"But first and foremost we go to Georgia, select a team we think we can win, and then coming back on the long journey we will look towards the Germany game."

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McCall also revealed that the management team "probably have about eight or nine players" in mind for the Georgia game but said there could still be changes from the line-up which drew 1-1 with the Republic of Ireland in June.

He added: "There are one or two positions that might get changed. The good thing now is we have really good, strong options looking ahead."

Watch Georgia v Scotland live on Friday, September 4 from 4.30pm on Sky Sports 1 HD.