The day McTominay scored an even better overhead kickFigure caption, Did McTominay find his mum in the crowd?ByJonathan SutherlandBBC Sport Scotland presenterPublished24 minutes agoScott McTominay finds it “difficult to talk about” his astounding overhead kick for Scotland against Denmark. A goal so important that it has been immortalised in an enormous mural on the side of a Glasgow building.
What the bashful midfielder doesn’t find tough to talk about is a similar goal he scored in Saudi Arabia. One, McTominay says, that was even better and netted while training with Napoli in the weeks that followed that incredible night at Hampden.
“It was better. It was higher,” the 29-year-old tells BBC Sport Scotland of an attempt he reckons eclipsed the 2.53m leap he somehow executed to set his country on the way to a first men’s World Cup in 28 years.
“I hate to say it, but I beat it and it was in training. I’m devastated. As soon as it happened I was thinking, ‘I should have saved it for a game’.”
Napoli team-mate Billy GIlmour was with him in the Middle East, but was in the treatment room at the time so missed the moment.
“I came outside and Scott says, ‘Bill, you won’t believe it, I’ve just scored exactly the same overhead kick but better’,” he confirms.
“I still need to see the video for proof…”
