GEORGIA manager Kakhaber Tskhadadze is contemplating dropping his regular keeper Giorgi Loria for the Euro 2016 qualifier with Scotland in Tbilisi tonight.

Loria, who has been an ever present in his national team and played against Gordon Strachan’s side at Ibrox back in October, is without a club after parting company with Olympiacos at the end of last season.

Nukri Revishvili, who plays for Mordovia Saransk in the Russian Premier League and has won 24 caps, is set to be drafted into Tskhadadze’s side for the Group D match.

The manager said: “He (Loria) is unattached and lacks match fitness so for that reason he may not start tomorrow. That could be a problem. He does not have match sharpness.

“We have had to consider other alternatives. There are other goalkeepers in the squad who we can rely upon. I have to make a decision on who to play."

Former CIS and Georgia defender Tskhadadze added: “Scotland play a very attractive brand of modern football. They have shattered all of the sterotypes which existed about the British game. They play a passing game.

“I have studied Scotland’s past games and they use a lot of short passes and make changes on the wings. I think they will play in a very similar style against us.

“We want to show that we can compete with teams at that level. It will give us confidence that we can finish higher in future qualifying groups. We are very motivated.

“We have lost late goals in this campaign, but we have been working very hard to ensure that does not happen again and we are hopeful we can play for the full 90 minutes.”

Meanwhile, former Dundee and Rangers defender Zurab Khizanishvili, who is set to win his 93rd international cap for Georgia this evening, admitted he would be emotional playing Scotland.

He said: “This is something big in my life to be playing against Scotland because I spent a lot of time in Scotland. I would say it is my second home country after Georgia.

“I hope that Scotland do well, but on the pitch I will be professional and I can’t be a friend any more. This is football.”