Scotland v Hungary: Pick of the stats

This might be Scotland and Hungary’s first aggressive encounter. All 9 of their earlier conferences had been friendlies (3 wins for Scotland, 4 wins for Hungary, 2 attracts).

Scotland have received two of their final three conferences with Hungary (L1), with this their first assembly since a 1-0 away win in March 2018.

Scotland want to attain the knockout phases of the European Championship for the primary time. Though they’ve received simply two of their 11 group video games at Euros (D3 L6), each wins got here on matchday three: in 1992 vs CIS (3-0) and 1996 vs Switzerland (1-0).

Hungary have misplaced each of their video games to this point at Euro 2024, shedding to Germany and Switzerland. They’ve solely misplaced all of their matches at two main tournaments earlier than, shedding each video games at Euro 1972 and all three group video games on the 1978 World Cup.

Scotland’s beginning XI towards Switzerland final day out had a mixed complete of 470 caps (together with that sport), their most for a world ever. It was additionally their first beginning lineup to function 5 gamers with greater than 50 caps – McTominay (51), Hanley (52), McGregor (62), McGinn (68) and Robertson (73).

Hungary have solely received certainly one of their final 17 video games at main tournaments (Euros + World Cup) towards European nations (D5 L11), a 2-0 win over Austria on matchday certainly one of Euro 2016.

Excluding personal objectives, the six scorers of objectives for Scotland at European Championships have all had surnames beginning with Mc – McStay, McClair and McAllister in 1992, McCoist in 1996, McGregor in 2020 and McTominay in 2024. Along with this, their 4 assisted objectives have all come from Mc gamers (McPherson, McCoist, McAllister, McGregor).

Hungary are winless of their final eight UEFA EURO matches (D4 L4) – the one nation to have an extended winless run within the competitors are Russia between 1988 and 2004 (9 video games – together with video games as Soviet Union/CIS).

For the reason that begin of 2023, Scott McTominay has scored eight objectives in 10 aggressive internationals for Scotland, just one fewer than all different Scottish gamers mixed in that point (9 objectives). McTominay has additionally had 4 of Scotland’s 13 pictures at Euro 2024, in addition to eight of their 27 touches within the opposition field.