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Man City midfielder Rodri ready for Scotland midfield pair McTominay, McGinn

Manchester City midfielder Rodri is ready to face Scotland pair Scott McTominay and John McGinn.

The 26-year-old has directly come up against Manchester United counterpart McTominay in derbies over the past few seasons and knows the Scot will be on a high after his two late goals in Saturday's 3-0 win over Cyprus.

Aston Villa captain McGinn is another of Rodri's midfield sparring partners from the Premier League he knows only too well.

"I know them very well, of course," said Rodri. "They are talented players with a lot of physicality to go box to box.

"I think they are of massive importance to the national team and, of course, they have experience of playing big games in the Premier League — against us, for example.

"With Scott, it's a big rivalry, of course, in the Manchester derby.

"They are good players, as we have also. We don't focus too much on individual players, more on the things they do collectively.

"We also try and focus on ourselves to produce a good performance against one of the best teams in the group.

"This is going to be an important game. If we can win, we'll have taken six points from the two best teams in the group — Scotland and Norway — so it's going to be a very tough game.

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