"Given the state of play in Group C, I would be surprised if we don’t see a minimum of two match goals on Tuesday night. Scotland will have to go for the jugular at some point here, and Denmark are more than capable of causing damage on the counter-attack. What’s more, I don’t think Denmark are the type of team that will park the bus and play for a draw at Hampden, especially after Saturday night’s abject showing against Belarus.

Moreover, four of Scotland’s five matches in Group C have produced over 1.5 goals, with two of their last three assignments breaking the over 3.5 goal barrier.

It’s been a similar story as far as Denmark are concerned, with Saturday's 2-2 draw with Belarus the latest in a number of high-scoring affairs that the visitors have been involved in of late. The Red and Whites netted three goals in each of their two wins over Greece while they scored six when putting Belarus to the sword.

Therefore, all the ingredients appear to be in place for this crunch clash to feature a glut of goals, with two or more looking well within the realms of possibility."

"The visitors have every reason to approach this match with freedom. There is little to play for in terms of gaining positions - they are three points behind Spain, but are 14 goals worse off in terms of goal difference. Because of that, they could play with a bit more attacking intent here, there is no reason to be passive and defensive.

Turkey have seen an average of 12.2 corners per game after five World Cup qualifying matches, seeing at least eight corners in all of their matches. While Spain’s average is a bit lower at 10.0 corners per game, this selection has landed in four of their five matches, only failing in round one against Bulgaria.

Even still, there were seven corners in total in that game, so they went incredibly close to hitting this mark."

"Austria and Bosnia face a straight shootout to automatically qualify for the World Cup next summer, with the loser guaranteed to finish 2nd and a place in the play-offs. A draw would see Austria progress as they already boast a two-point lead on Bosnia, who require an away win to leapfrog Ralf Rangnick’s side.

Austria ran out 2-1 winners when the sides clashed earlier in qualifying back in September. It was a heated contest which saw Patrick Wimmer pick up a red card for two yellows, there were six cards in total on that occasion.

Bosnia rank 1st for fouls committed per game across all the European sides in World Cup Qualifying (18.6 per game) and have a card ranking to match this promising foul record (19 yellows, 4th in WCQ). Austria rank 4th for fouls of the European sides in WCQ (15.3 per game), and Rangnick demands an aggressive approach from his side.

The aggression shown from both sides throughout the qualifying campaign should result in a high card count, with tensions further fuelled by the knockout nature of this final qualifying match. The referee for this game is Joao Pinheiro, who is averaging 5.50 cards per game across his six appointments in Liga Portugal this season, and is averaging 4.36 cards per game across his 11 games in all competitions."

"After all of the research, I am edging onto Wales’ side in the match odds market.

Wales’ record at home against nations that aren’t at the very top table in competitive matches is really strong.

They lost 4-2 to Belgium last time out, but results before that in competitive fixtures read: 3-0 v Liechtenstein, 3-1 v Kazakhstan, 4-1 v Iceland, 1-0 v Montenegro, 0-0 v Turkey, 4-1 v Finland, 1-1 v Turkey and 2-1 v Croatia.

North Macedonia only need a draw here. They will surely dig in and look to frustrate to get a 0-0. This tactic worked against Belgium, but they conceded 25 shots worth 3.2 xG in that match, so it was more by luck than judgment.

Brennan Johnson's expected return to the starting XI will give Wales a huge lift. North Macedonia's raw numbers and position in the group are strong, but they've significantly overperformed. In their most comparable away game to this, in qualifying, they won 1-0 in Kazakhstan, but they only managed 0.31 xG and just three shots from inside the box. A regression to the mean in Cardiff should see Wales get the job done."