Stones not thinking about the World Cup

Stones was keen to minimise talk of revenge ahead of the UEFA Nations League game, which will take place behind closed doors at the Stadion HNK Rijeka.

After Croatia failed to control disgraceful fans that drew a swastika on the pitch at a previous game, the World Cup runner up are banned from allowing fans to enter the ground. 

Stones, who lost Mario Mandzukic for the winning goal for Croatia in the summmer, was however keen to be professional and leave Croatia with the three points. 

''I think however we want to put it, we've got to play them no matter what,'' the former Everton man said to BBC Radio 5 live. 

''I don't want to say anything about the World Cup. I think we've got a new game, a new challenge in front of us.

''Obviously it will be a different environment for me personally and a lot of the lads without having any fans here, but that's something that we can't control and it's down to what happened here in the past.''

'So, it's a great experience for us all and hopefully we can put things right maybe that happened in the World Cup.

'We want to come here and show a good account of ourselves, show that we can hopefully beat Croatia and keep fighting in this Nations League.'