Scotland ahead Lewis Morgan thinks Scotland can “completely” shock hosts Germany in Friday’s Euro 2024 opener.
The 27-year-old New York Pink Bulls man was a late call-up to the provisional squad earlier than being named in Steve Clarke’s closing 26-man celebration final week.
The previous Celtic man revealed he was solely given a slim probability of returning to the best degree after present process a severe hip operation final September.
Morgan ended a six-year worldwide exile as he got here off the bench in Friday’s 2-2 attract Scotland’s closing warm-up match towards Finland at Hampden Park.
He’s now hoping to characteristic as Scotland attempt to spring an almighty upset as their Group A marketing campaign begins towards the hosts in Munich on Friday (8pm kick-off BST).
“Stranger issues have occurred in soccer,” Morgan mentioned. “We’ve obtained a extremely, actually proficient squad right here, a superb group of gamers taking part in on the highest degree in world soccer.
“There’s no purpose why we are able to’t go there and get one thing, however we are able to solely do this if we give the most effective model of ourselves and follow the sport plan.”
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Morgan’s call-up accomplished a miraculous turnaround after present process hip reconstruction surgical procedure within the US – one thing which he says might have ended his taking part in profession.
He mentioned: “I began to choose up loads of hip strains, so we knew surgical procedure was within the background, however I needed to present all the things I might to keep away from it.
“I re-injured myself three, 4, perhaps 5 instances, and every time the severity obtained worse and it culminated in a extremely unhealthy psoas tear, which is supposedly unprecedented.
“I had the surgical procedure, which concerned nearly a whole reshaping of my hip. It was fairly intense.
“They have been giving me round an 80-85% probability of returning to play full cease after which returning to efficiency degree was perhaps like 20 or 25%.
“Possibly that concern type of drove me on within the rehab course of to ensure that I didn’t skip any corners and I give myself the most effective probability.”
And he added: “It’s fairly surreal to assume, ‘oh now I’m again taking part in and I’m acting at a superb degree’.”
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