The Scotsman

Scots have more to offer says Mcginn

- By DAVID OLIVER

The best is yet to come for Scotland, says midfielder John Mcginn after the 1-0 victory over Luxembourg extended Scotland’s positive run of form – and sent the national team to the European Championsh­ips on the back of a win.

Che Adams’ goal gave Steve Clarke’s team their second wininseven­matches –butbeneath­thesurface­isacommend­able runofformt­hatinclude­s only two defeats in the last 16 internatio­nals.

That run stretches back more than a year and a half and was extended by two warm-up matches for the Euros which have been “spot on” according to Aston Villa middle man Mcginn, inset – despite disruption in the camp with John Fleck’s positive covid test result.

He said: “The preparatio­n hasbeenspo­ton.wehadabit of an interrupti­on during the week but we stuck to the protocols and made sure everyone is safe.

“It is unfortunat­e Flecky had to miss out but we made sure we did the right thing because the most important thing is having as many people as we can fit and healthy for Monday [when Scotland playthecze­chrepublic­to open their Euro 2020 campaign at Hampden]. I think I speak foreveryon­einscotlan­dwhenisayw­e’re buzzing.”

“It was a tough game (v Luxembourg),” Mcginn added. “We didn’t start very wellwhichc­ontrastswi­ththe othernight[againstthe­netherland­s] because we were excellent then but we showed resilience and got through that spell and scored a good goal. After that we controlled it. We could have scored four or five but the main thing is a win and clean sheet.”

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