Scotland captain Andy Robertson has made it clear that worldwide retirement isn’t on his radar.
As an alternative, the Liverpool left-back has been playfully reminding Sir Kenny Dalglish that he’s closing in on his nationwide caps file.
The 31-year-old is about to earn his 81st cap on Thursday when Scotland faces Greece within the first leg of the Nations League play-off.
It would push him previous Darren Fletcher into third place on Scotland’s all-time males’s appearances checklist, leaving solely Jim Leighton (91) and Dalglish (102) forward of him.
“I really stated to Kenny the opposite week, ‘I’m coming for you’,” Robertson instructed BBC Scotland. “His reply was loads of gamers have stated that earlier than and he’s nonetheless the primary man.”
Robertson’s worldwide journey started beneath Gordon Strachan in 2014 whereas he was enjoying for Dundee United.
4 years later, Alex McLeish handed him the captain’s armband.
“I like enjoying for Scotland, exhibiting up for each camp, and I wish to get as many caps as I can,” Robertson added. “Wherever that takes me, it takes me. I’m extremely proud to get to 80.
‘Possibly Steve Clarke stops choosing me. Possibly that is the way it ends!’ 😅
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“You simply take care of what’s in entrance of you. There’s a lot occurring, you may’t look too far forward.
“You want a little bit of luck with accidents however I do every part I can to verify I’m in the very best form for Liverpool and Scotland.”
Robertson’s most up-to-date worldwide aim got here in stoppage time in opposition to Poland final November, securing a 2-1 victory in Warsaw and clinching third place in Nations League Group A1.
Now, Scotland faces an important showdown in opposition to Greece to retain their spot within the high tier of the event.
The left-back believes the staff has proven important progress of their first-ever Group A marketing campaign, ending with seven factors from the final three matches after a tough begin.
“The Nations League has been essential for us and the intention was at all times to get to Group A,” Robertson stated. “We then noticed the rewards after we held our personal in opposition to Portugal and Croatia.
“There was plenty of negativity after the Euros and rightly so. We believed we may get out of the group and we didn’t carry out to the degrees we all know we will.
“There was plenty of discuss round ‘is that this the top for this squad?’ However I believe we’ve bounced again rather well.”
Greece, at present ranked thirty ninth on the planet – six locations above Scotland – completed second behind England of their B-level Nations League group on aim distinction. Robertson acknowledged the problem they current.
“They’re a extremely good staff at residence and don’t concede many objectives,” he admitted. “Will probably be troublesome however we imagine we can provide anybody a recreation.”
Scotland will meet Greece once more later this 12 months in World Cup qualifying, alongside Belarus and the shedding aspect from the Portugal vs Denmark quarter-final.