Adams disappoints and Armstrong denied penalty as Scotland exit EURO 2024

SAINTS duo Che Adams and Stuart Armstrong - set to depart the club - suffered last-gasp heartbreak as they lost 1-0 to Hungary at EURO 2024.

Scotland’s European Championships is over after Kevin Csoboth scored a dramatic added-time winner for Hungary in the Stuttgart Arena.

The Scots had a penalty claim turned down for a challenge on substitute Armstrong in the second half albeit Hungary twice hit the woodwork and missed several chances.

There was some distress when Hungary’s Barnabas Varga was treated with screens around him before he was taken away on a stretcher but in the 10 added minutes for the incident, substitute Csoboth netted the winner for a 1-0 victory which meant Steve Clarke’s side finished Group A in fourth place with one point.

Scotland have still never qualified for the knockout stages of a major competition and in a second successive EUROs, Clarke’s men have finished bottom of the table having garnered only one point.

In what was the first competitive game between the two countries – and effectively a win-or-bust situation for both – Clarke replaced injured defender Kieran Tierney with Scott McKenna, his only change.

Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai, the classy captain of Marco Rossi’s team, started despite training away from the main group this week and there was a return for Barnsley’s midfielder Callum Styles, in for Adam Nagy, with defender Endre Botka in for Attila Fiola.