Andy Robertson believes Scotland's game against England at Celtic Park on Tuesday night will be anything but a friendly.
Both teams won their recent European Championship qualifiers and after their side's exertions, coaches Gordon Strachan and Roy Hodgson are set to ring the changes for the Vauxhall International Challenge match, a reciprocal fixture following last year's 3-2 win for England at Wembley.
However, the 20-year-old Hull left-back believes another hard-fought fixture is on the cards.
"It is quoted as a friendly but both teams won't take it that way," he said. "It will be a competitive game.
"It is a massive occasion for both teams, we are both trying to keep our good form going.
"When I grew up the Scotland v England game was kind of a thing of the past but we all still knew about it and the history behind it.
"The game returned last year and to be part of this one will be a great occasion. "
Robertson, however, dismissed England keeper Ben Foster's analysis of Scotland's narrow 1-0 win over Republic of Ireland at Celtic Park on Friday.
The Group D encounter was decided by a wonderful Shaun Maloney goal in the 75th minute but Foster was quoted as saying: "From watching the game the other night, they were kicking lumps out of each other weren't they?"
However, the former Dundee United player countered: "That's his opinion but people watching the game, I think, will have seen that both teams tried to play football but we played the better football.
"We got the ball down and tried to play. You've seen the goal, it was a special goal.
"We worked on it on the training ground and it was sheer passing that got us into that position and Shaun's finish is unbelievable.
"So if you watch the goal and the overall game, we played football throughout."
Robertson had played only a couple of games for Dundee United following his move from amateur side Queen's Park when the two teams met at Wembley last August.
Since then he has moved swiftly from Scotland Under-21s into Strachan's squad and his form earned him a move to Hull in the summer, but the most recent encounter with the Auld Enemy is fresh in his mind.
He said: "I'd just moved up to Dundee so I was in the digs with all the youth boys at United. There was a buzz round our wee house.
"We all gathered round in the living room and watched it. It was a good laugh.
"The Tartan Army went down there in great numbers. It was a great game to watch and hopefully this one can be the same."
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