Scotland’s Ben Doak is ‘the best dribbler of the ball’ Lee Miller has seen

Lennon Miller might be after a word with his dad.

Lee Miller has spent a lot of time lately, rightly, gushing over his son’s brilliance, but now it is the turn of a different talented teenager.

Lennon Miller and Ben Doak have come through the various Scotland youth levels together, so Lee has had a front row seat to the winger’s excellence.

While the excitement has long been there from the Tartan Army, the evidence has now been delivered on the international stage from 19-year-old Doak.

A shining star among a string of superb Scotland performances, the Liverpool player, on loan at Middlesbrough, made this representing your country malarkey look easy.

Lee, though, has long known it’s been a matter of when, not if, Doak would don the dark blue for the first team.

“I’ve watched him for a good few years now and he is the best I’ve seen at dribbling and running with the ball,” the former Scotland striker said on the BBC’s Scottish football podcast.

“He’s exciting, he’s got a complete no fear mindset of who he plays against. You get the same Ben Doak each time, he just wants to attack and go.

“That kind of breeds confidence throughout the full team, too. I think if you’ve got a player that can carry the ball like that, you want to give them it constantly.

“Then other players just up their game a wee bit more. I think there was a real control and quality in Scotland last night.”

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