Greece have no plans to give any special attention to Scotland’s Ballon d’Or nominee, Scott McTominay, in Thursday’s World Cup qualifier at Hampden, visiting head coach Ivan Jovanovic has insisted.

The Napoli midfielder scored the winner from the penalty spot against Greece when the Scots visited Piraeus in March.

“Yes, he is a very good player,” Jovanovic said. “However, Scotland have lots of very good players with a lot of experience at international and club level.

“Arguably, they probably have more experience at top international level than our players. They’ve been to tournaments recently.

“But, overall, the Scottish team has a lot of players that need a lot of attention anyway.”

Greece won the second leg of that Nations League play-off 3-0 to win promotion and relegate the Scots, but it is their hosts who are one point ahead in European Group C going into what will be the half-way stage of qualification after the visitors lost at home to Denmark last time out.

“It is an important game, especially after the last match, but for any team that has set itself targets, every match that comes up is important,” Jovanovic added.

“Especially when we’re playing a good team such as Scotland.

“We want to do better, especially compared to the previous match, and we want to keep getting better to provide us with a better continuation.

“It’s a very short window of three months to play six games to qualify for the World Cup, so every game is important, and there’s no going back on whichever result there is.”