"The night began with Scott McTominay's most audacious overhead kick, connecting with Ben Gannon-Doak's dinked cross eight feet in the air, steering the ball beyond the roundly booed Kasper Schmeichel in the Danish net. The best features, fun and footballing quizzes, straight to your inbox every week. When Zinedine Zidane scored a quite sublime volley at the same Hampden end for Real Madrid during the 2002 Champions League Final, he probably thought that was job done"
"Wrong, Zizou. You didn't count on McBro, which is the literal translation of Napoli fans' 'McFratm' moniker they've bestowed upon the midfielder who placed 18th in the 2025 Ballon d'Or rankings. What a sentence, by the way. You get the feeling it was the kind of goal that Scottish football legend Diego Maradona would have been proud to score. Whatever has happened to McTominay in Naples, whether it be the diet, the Tyrrhenian lifestyle or a"
Scotland ended a 27-year FIFA World Cup exile by defeating Denmark at Hampden Park to secure qualification for the 2026 World Cup. The match produced a collective performance that contrasted with remarkably high-quality goals, highlighted by Scott McTominay's audacious overhead kick from a Ben Gannon-Doak cross that beat Kasper Schmeichel. Troy Parrott's 96th-minute hat-trick for the Republic of Ireland secured a play-off place elsewhere in qualifying. Observers compared McTominay's strike to historic volleys such as Zinedine Zidane's 2002 Champions League goal, and Napoli fans have nicknamed him 'McBro' after his form and Ballon d'Or recognition.
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