McGregor's 'will' crucial to recover in time for Euros

Scotland's Callum McGregor says his spot of "will" was important to his betterment from wounded arsenic he helped Celtic triumph nan double and make it to Euro 2024.

The midfielder missed nan Scots' friends defeats successful nan Netherlands and astatine location to Northern Ireland successful March because of an Achilles injury.

He besides missed nine action passim nan period but returned successful April to spearhead Celtic's Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup double.

"The wounded 1 was bad timing, difficult wounded to negociate arsenic well," nan 30-year-old Celtic skipper told BBC Sport.

"When we sewage nan scan, it was bad news, it was beautiful overmuch play complete but pinch determination and everything that location was still to play for and evidently having an oculus connected [Euro 2024] arsenic well, sometimes nan mind tin do crazy things for you and will you backmost to a constituent erstwhile you tin get yourself backmost fit.

"I'm consenting to put myself done thing for nan squad to get occurrence and that's conscionable nan measurement that I am. I'm truthful gladsome that it turned retired nan measurement it did. In football, luck favours nan brave arsenic good a small bit."

McGregor, who scored Scotland's only extremity of Euro 2020, "never accepted" his play could beryllium complete and won his 59th and 60th caps successful Scotland's caller warm-up triumph complete Gibraltar and Friday's friends tie pinch Finland.

"I manged to get myself backmost fresh and [Celtic] won nan 2 trophies that were connected connection astatine nan extremity and I've managed to get myself present arsenic good truthful it's ended well," he added.

"I was hopeless and beryllium portion of [Euro 2024] arsenic well.

"We want to not only get to tournaments but we want to return portion and consciousness for illustration we beryllium here. It's thing that we request to bask and clasp and I'm judge we will.

"Hopefully, we are amended disconnected [than Euro 2020] and hopefully that'll show successful nan games arsenic well."