Scotland out to prove point to Croatia, says James Morrison
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James Morrison says Croatia's forecasts of piling on the goals against Scotland will provide motivation for him and the rest of Gordon Strachan's squad.
Croatia top World Cup qualifying Group A along with Belgium while the Scots sit bottom without a victory ahead of Friday's match in Zagreb.
"We will put it to the back of our minds at this stage," said Morrison of comments from their hosts' camp.
"But, once the game comes, we will try to use that to motivate ourselves."
Missing the likes of captain Darren Fletcher and striker Steven Fletcher to long-term injury, .
And Croatia striker Ivica Olic has been quoted as saying the home side are looking to "win by two or three goals".
Former national coach Miroslav Blazevic guessed that Scotland "will go back home with five goals in their net".
"It is not nice, but we are concentrating on our training week," midfielder Morrison said of such comments from the side sitting fourth in the world rankings.
"We are doing double sessions and working really hard.
"There are a lot of new players trying to get used to each other and so we are just going to concentrate on our game and let them deal with themselves."
Morrison, one of the most experienced in Gordon Strachan's depleted squad despite having just turned 27 last week, compared Scotland's task to his club side, West Brom, playing Manchester City or Manchester United away from home.

"Obviously it is not an ideal time, but now that we are here, everyone is looking forward to the game," he said of the "long, hard season".
"It has been a great season with West Brom, a top-eight finish and it would be nice to finish on a high with Scotland.
"It is going to be tough going over there. They have a fantastic team and players in their squad have been playing in the Champions League final, but we have to test ourselves against the best."
Scotland coach Stuart McCall said he was unaware of the Croatian comments.
"It would be a bit disrespectful if that is the case, but we've just got to focus on ourselves and go there and try to be difficult," said the Motherwell manager.
"To be fair to Croatia, they've not only spoken a good game, they've played a good game if you look at the league table.
"Because we've got a little bit of an inexperienced squad, we've got to use all of our energy and focus on what we are about and what we are going to do to get the best out of the group that we send on to the park."
Scotland have no chance of qualifying for next year's finals in Brazil and McCall has urged Strachan's inexperienced side to approach the game without fear or pressure.
"I'm sure the majority of people across the world and even in Scotland are looking upon this as a really difficult tie, which we know it is," he said.
"If we could get a victory, it would be incredible.
"We've got to try to rebuild. We know we are out of the competition, but all the time we now have with the players is now looking forward.
"It's a stepping stone and we've got to look to put on a good performance on Friday night and hopefully come away with a positive result."
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Your league is a joke. Not in terms of skill but merely how deluded you lot are.
Lowest rate of home grown players out of the 'elite' leagues. Your home-grown managers are sub-par. Your success is based on foreign money/players. The fact that Fulham, Wigan and QPR can outspend a Scottish team who equalled England's best in the CL defies belief.
The EPL sold its soul to Murdoch!
We are bottom of the group - sadly we have as much chance of winning the tournament as... England.
Player for player we're vastly superior to ROI yet they expect to win most games.
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How deluded is this - Ireland have been vastly superior to Scotland for over 2 decades and Scotland can only dream of having Ireland's vastly superior WC and EC record.
If Scotland need to get beyond the group stage of a major tournament first before comparing itself to Ireland.
What makes the EPL so great???
Sky Money; controlled by an Australian.
Best managers in the history of the EPL: Sir Fergie and Matt Busby, Scottish.
The talent? Van Persie, Tevez, Da Silva, Suarez, Cazorla, Bale??? Talent it is, homegrown it is not.
EPL=Deluded!
The Croatian Prva Liga is a 12-team league with one dominant team in a country of about 4.3 million, 22nd in Europe.
Yet Croatia are 4th in the world and top of the group. We're 78th in the world and bottom. We need players to move abroad and not to the Championship!
I can only imagine they see a completely different game to the rest of us if they think we should still be playing Miller or Adam.
still awaiting the reform of scottish football we have been promised lets start by limiting the number of imports,maybe allow only 2 on the pitch at any time
It's sooo simple that I'm surprised I didn't think of it before. The Scots shouldn't bother turning up in Zagreb