Euro 2024: James McFadden says Scotland deserve shot at grandstand finish

We were at the last Euros at a largely empty Hampden, and we see Scotland play there all the time. This is different.

The amount of Scotland fans in Germany is remarkable, the noise they’re generating in the stadiums is off the scale. Both renditions of Flower of Scotland have been unbelievable.

From a football point of view, there have been echoes of three years ago, in terms of results.

We lost the first game then, before getting a bit of a heroic draw at Wembley. Then we know what happened against Croatia.

You’re supposed to learn your lessons from past mistakes.

I don’t think we underestimated Croatia three years ago, but they were very good.

I don’t think this Hungary team are as good as that Croatian side, but we need to prepare believing they’re just as good as Switzerland.

We’ve given ourselves a chance of four points and getting out of a group for the first time. It’s not guaranteed, but if we got the win and still couldn’t go through, it’s just typical Scotland isn’t it?

Hungary played well against Germany, but if we turn up we can win this game. All we want is to go and have some belief, and now there’s plenty of it.

James McFadden was speaking to BBC Sport Scotland’s Scott Mullen.