Wales v Scotland latest news

It’s been a poor start to Gary Speed’s reign as Wales manager, with the team being comfortably beaten by the Republic of Ireland in February before getting outclassed at the Millennium Stadium by England in their Euro 2012 qualifier.

In fairness to the former Sheffield United boss, there isn’t a wealth of quality players at his disposal and it makes it even trickier when a player like Gareth Bale is currently sidelined. Even so, he will hope to see the team give a good account of themselves at the Aviva Stadium on Wednesday and they are 5/2 with bet365 (£200 free betting) to win this Nations Cup match.

Speed’s task won’t be made any easier by the fact that Ashley Williams, Joe Allen, Simon Church and Hal Robson-Kanu are all involved in the Championship play-off final on Monday and Scotland might take full advantage of this situation.

Craig Levein’s team might be a popular bet at odds of 13/10 with William Hill (£25 free bet), especially as bet365 are prepared to go 11/10 that the Scots continue their 100% record in this competition after a comfortable win over Northern Ireland.

Kenny Miller is a 6/1 chance with Coral (£25 free bets) to score the opening goal and his task might be made slightly easier by the fact that James Collins is missing from the Wales defence. Speed will consider playing either Robert Earnshaw (15/2 Skybet) or Steve Morison (15/2 Skybet) in attack and the Welsh are 9/4 (bet365) to manage a morale-boosting draw.