Scotland women's national team manager Pedro Martinez Losa is urging his squad to deliver another strong performance when they face Slovakia on Friday evening.
The Scots currently sit atop their Euro 2025 qualifying group, having accumulated three wins and four draws so far in their campaign.
However, Martinez Losa has challenged his players to be even more clinical and ruthless in their final two qualifying matches.
The Spanish coach wants to see his team capitalise on their dominant position in the group and secure maximum points from their remaining fixtures - starting in the western Slovakian city of Nitra.
"In the last camp we were more clinical in the final third but that’s not something you can assume is going to happen all the time," Martinez Losa said.
“The most important thing is to qualify but in saying that, our ambition is to be at the highest level and finish unbeaten as that will give us a feeling of success, strong and solid performances, not only from the offensive aspect but no team can be competitive without being defensively consistent and reliable.
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"We just have to go one step at a time and face the scenarios.
"Slovakia are playing for everything tomorrow because they need a point at least or three to still have options of being in the play-offs, so as much as we can have a feeling of part of the job is done, the job is finished when it’s finished.
“For us, it’s a new opportunity to prove ourselves, to prove the level of the team, to prove that we can be competitive in this context again and the more we repeat, the more we can feel the reward of doing a good job.
"I think the mentality and the development of the team will progress."
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