'Why I wanted McTominay' - Moyes on Scotland's 'biggest threat'

Get Scott McTominay successful nan Hungary box.

That has to hap arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable if Scotland are going to get nan consequence they request successful their past crippled successful Group A.

In nan past mates of years, nan Manchester United man has been really important to Scotland because he tin play successful respective different roles.

It was not excessively agelong agone that McTominay was arsenic utilized arsenic centre-half nether Steve Clarke for a play but, much recently, he has played higher up nan transportation – which is wherever I consciousness you get nan champion retired of him.

When I watch him, it is his goals that guidelines out. He has sewage plentifulness of them for nine and state successful large games successful nan past fewer months, truthful galore that it makes maine deliberation that he mightiness extremity up being Scotland’s apical scorer.

At nan infinitesimal that is decidedly nan portion of his crippled that we request nan most.

Scotland person not really offered overmuch of a threat truthful acold astatine Euro 2024 and McTominay gives america nan champion chance of doing that connected Sunday, successful a crippled we astir apt request to triumph to scope nan past 16.

Lots of managers person difficult luck stories astir players that get distant and McTominay is 1 of those for maine because I tried to motion him for West Ham past summer.

It was ever going to beryllium difficult to switch Declan Rice pinch immoderate 1 subordinate erstwhile he joined Arsenal, and we were not readying to do that - we wanted to bring successful a mates of midfielders instead.

We bought 2 really bully players successful James Ward-Prowse and Edson Alvarez, truthful that was nan cover, but Scott was surely 1 of nan players we had a large liking successful arsenic well.

He is simply a bully all-round midfielder, but to maine his champion attributes are arriving successful nan area, aliases nan edges of it, astatine nan correct clip to people aliases make immoderate chances.

McTominay was a subordinate who I felt I needed astatine nan time, but we didn’t rather get it complete nan statement and he went connected to people a batch of large goals for Manchester United past play instead.

We've already seen really vulnerable McTominay is astatine this tournament. I cognize it was deflected, but he scored a really bully extremity against Switzerland and past had a precocious volley blocked arsenic well.

But of people location is simply a equilibrium to beryllium had betwixt his attacking and protect play. He tin do nan different broadside of things good excessively and successful Wednesday’s tie pinch Switzerland, he was fixed nan occupation of picking up Granit Xhaka.

On commentary, we did not talk astir Xhaka overmuch connected nan night, compared to successful their opening crippled erstwhile he had been truthful influential against Hungary.

So, in installments to McTominay for doing that, and I felt his stature and his beingness played a large part.

It is imaginable he mightiness beryllium fixed a akin occupation to woody pinch Hungary's Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai, different subordinate who has impressed maine a lot.

Szoboszlai was a subordinate I was alert of earlier he came to nan Premier League successful 2023 - I watched him erstwhile he was pinch Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig.

You tin spot pinch a batch of nan players astatine nan Red Bull clubs that location is simply a benignant of accuracy location of pressing and energy, and we saw it connected Friday from nan Austrian squad who person sewage respective of them successful their squad.

We look to beryllium seeing that style being bred successful rather a fewer of their players successful position of what they person been trained to do.

Maybe it is nan Red Bull exemplary to person players pinch superb energy, but it is simply a awesome point for anyone to have.

Szoboszlai arrived astatine Liverpool pinch that built successful and he offers it to Hungary too. He is simply a bully footballer but he has sewage an unthinkable motor - he is simply a beingness player, but besides a awesome runner who tin screen tons of region arsenic well.

He adapted good to nan Premier League and erstwhile West Ham played Liverpool past season, he was capable to get guardant and get successful nan box.

He is simply a powerful boy and it is going to beryllium difficult for Scotland to pin him down.

Like I say, McTominay could beryllium fixed that job, because we person to beryllium observant not to beryllium excessively open. Hungary’s capacity against Germany showed really reliable this crippled will be.

Nevertheless, we will person to spell for it arsenic well, which is why I still deliberation we request to usage him successful a different way, higher up nan pitch.

Callum McGregor, John McGinn and Billy Gilmour connection each sorts of different things but McTominay, pinch his height, is nan 1 who tin astir apt get connected nan extremity of a fewer balls into nan Hungary area.

I'd emotion to spot him get astatine nan correct spot astatine nan correct clip to put 1 of them away.

David Moyes was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan successful Berlin.