'Absolutely' - Morgan says Scotland can shock Germany

Scotland tin "absolutely" astonishment Germany successful Friday's Euro 2024 opener, winger Lewis Morgan says.

The New York Red Bull 27-year-old was a precocious entrant to Steve Clarke's provisional squad for nan tourney and made it into nan travelling excavation of 26.

He ended a six-year world absence arsenic a substitute successful Friday's 2-2 location tie pinch Finland.

"Absolutely, alien things person happened successful football," Morgan said astir nan anticipation of Clarke's broadside upsetting nan big nation.

"We've sewage a really, really talented squad here, a bully group of players playing astatine nan highest level successful world football.

"There's nary logic why we can't spell location and get something, but we tin only do that if we springiness nan champion type of ourselves and instrumentality to nan crippled plan."

Morgan's world comeback marks a important turnaround successful fortunes for nan erstwhile Celtic, Inter Miami and St Mirren forward.

In September, he underwent awesome hep room and says nan "fear" of not recovering was motivating.

"I started to prime up rather a batch of hep musculus strains, truthful I'd get injured and past I would travel back, truthful we really knew room was successful nan background, but I wanted to really springiness everything I could to debar it," he explained.

"I astir apt re-injured myself possibly 3 aliases four, possibly moreover 5 times, and each clip nan severity sewage worse and past it culminated successful a really, really bad psoas tear, which is supposedly unheard of.

"I had nan surgery, which progressive almost a complete reshaping of my hip. It was rather intense. As soon arsenic nan room was over, each nan symptom that I'd had was almost gone and past it was conscionable astir recovering and getting back.

"They were giving maine astir an 80-85% chance of returning to play afloat extremity and past returning to capacity level was possibly for illustration 20 aliases 25%. Maybe that fearfulness benignant of drove maine connected successful nan rehab process to make judge that I didn't skip immoderate corners and I springiness myself nan champion chance."

And he added: "It's rather surreal to think, 'oh now I'm backmost playing and I'm performing astatine a bully level'."