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INTERNATIONAL GOALSCORER OF THE YEAR

GREAT SCOTT

Scotland’s remarkableEuro2024qualifying campaign owed plenty to the contribution of Scott McTominay.The Manchester United midfielder the contribution of tells FFThow he turned into an unlikely goal machine

This time last year, you’d have got long odds on Scotland’s Scott McTominay being one of the top goalscorers in qualification for Euro 2024.

Having found the net just once in his first 37 appearances for his country, the all-action midfielder scored seven times in Scotland’s eight qualifiers. That put him in the top five of the scoring chart, a goal ahead of Erling Haaland in the same group and bettered only by some pretty prolific names: Romelu Lukaku, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane, who share some 319 international goals between them.

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