Scotland striker Kim Little is looking to beat Sweden tonight and avoid the 2015 Canada World Cup qualifiers.

Little and her teammates are in Gothenburg tonight for the last qualifying match, where they will meet a team ranked third in Europe and fifth in the world.

Should the Scots win by a greater margin than the 3-1 defeat the Swedes handed them at Motherwell in June then Scotland will finish above Sweden in the group.

Scotland have won all but one of their nine qualifiers and lie second, three points behind Sweden in Group Four. Their hosts for tonight’s game have only conceded one goal in the qualifying campaign, Little’s penalty at Fir Park.

The ex-Arsenal player is currently playing in the US — where she won the most valuable player in the National Women’s Soccer League — and will be vital in a very tough game.

She said: “We have the ability to score against Sweden. They are a higher-ranked team than us but there’s no reason to go into the game with negative thoughts.”

The ex-Arsenal player is currently playing in the US — where she won the most valuable player in the National Women’s Soccer League — and will be vital in a very tough game.

She said: “We have the ability to score against Sweden. They are a higher-ranked team than us but there’s no reason to go into the game with negative thoughts.”

Little played in Saturday’s 9-0 win over the Faroe Islands, winning her 100th cap, and scored the opening goal. Striker Jane Ross stole the headlines with her third hat-trick of the qualifying stages but Little knows Sweden will prove a much sterner test.

Little said: “We also know that Sweden could threaten us so it is important that we play a balanced game. We don’t have much to lose, we’re already in the play-offs at least.”

England, like Sweden, are yet to drop a point and are already guaranteed a place next year in Canada for the finals.

Mark Sampson will finish their campaign tonight against Montenegro. The last time these two sides met back in April in Brighton, Sampson saw his side comfortably put nine goals past their visitors.

Sampson said: “We want to go to Montenegro, produce a very good performance and hopefully get the result that we want — a win that will give us a 100 per cent record, which would be an incredible achievement for all involved.”

Wales must beat Ukraine in Lviv to have any chance of making it to Canada and hope other results in their group go their way in order to qualify as one of the four best runners-up and make it into the play-offs.