Csoboth scores on break in 100th minute to knock out Scotland
Varga carried off after long delay following sickening collision
Switzerland 1-1 - hosts win group with Swiss second
Hungary must wait to see if they go through as one of best four third-placed teams
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Must win match, a line up and tactics notorious for not scoring goals while leaving a 30 goal striker cooling his heels on the bench. Steve Clarke, thank you for your service, I appreciate everything you've given us and wish you well in all your future endeavours. Know when it's time to go.
Jay, Glasgow
FT: Scotland 0-1 Hungary
Pat Nevin
Former Scotland winger on BBC Radio 5 Live
When we did control the game in the first half it was from our own half without doing much in the other. That lack of pure creativity up top, which all top, top teams have, we've had limited amounts in the last few games. We have had very few opportunities until the last few minutes. We just lacked the quality to get the result.
FT: Switzerland 1-1
Niclas Fullkrug - who equalised with ’s 18th and final attempt of the game tonight - has scored 13 goals in just 19 international appearances.
Not a bad option to introduce from the bench.
FT: Scotland 0-1 Hungary
Some more from a disappointed Steve Clarke.
"It was always a one-goal game," he said. "We didn't manage to get the goal, we opened up at the end to try and get it.
"The overriding feeling is to be sad for everybody, for the ers and the country and the players are just as sad as everyone else."
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"The goal comes as a consequence of us trying to win the game." Scotland head coach Steve Clarke tells BBC Sport.
"The goal is almost irrelevant. The moment for me was the penalty. It was 100% a penalty. Someone has to explain to me why it wasn't a penalty because otherwise I'm thinking there's something wrong.
"I don't understand how VAR can look at that and say it's not a penalty."
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Steve Clarke took a long time to emerge from the dressing room and the Scotland boss is not happy about Argentine referee Facundo Tello.
FT: Scotland 0-1 Hungary
Pat Nevin
Former Scotland winger on BBC Radio 5 Live
Image source, ReutersThere may be plenty of people saying it is time for Steve Clarke to go. I personally am delighted with how he has taken us to two Euros and we have looked like an organised, structured team for the vast majority of the time.
But it almost looks like there might be one last hurrah for this group of players, which would be the World Cup. You need to decide whether you give it to Clarke or if he himself wants to take things any further.
FT: Scotland 0-1 Hungary
Leanne Crichton
Former Scotland international on BBC Radio Scotland
I wonder if Steve Clarke himself might look at this as if he's taken this team as far as he can.
He's been in the job a long time, you've got that run of results behind you, you're coming up to face Poland, Croatia and Portugal in the Nations League. The games don't get any easier.
By the time the end of the year comes round we could be on one win in 18.
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Alan Shearer
Former England striker on BBC One
The pool of players, the injuries, I don't think it was for a lack of effort.
Any Scotland head coach will have the same problems.
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Willie Miller
Former Scotland defender on BBC Sportsound
I don't think there should be question marks over Steve Clarke's future. I think he's done a fabulous job with the squad over the years.
We have to he's got us qualified for two major tournaments after we hadn't for so long. He's done magnificently well for the country.
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Raphael Honigstein
German football journalist on BBC Radio 5 Live
Image source, PA MediaThat was a massive goal from Nicolas Fullkrug, really saved the German blushes. A real flattering result for in the end, who did not really do enough, to rescue top spot in the group. A lot of things did not go according to plan, the defenders in particular did not cover themselves in glory at the back.
FT: Scotland 0-1 Hungary
For what it's worth, I thought at the time that Armstrong might have been a shade offside.
Completely immaterial now.
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Chris Sutton
Former Celtic striker on BBC Radio 5 Live
I don't think it was a penalty, Stuart Armstrong was looking for the from Willi Orban. I don't understand why he didn't try to get a shot off. What an opportunity that was by the way.
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Alan Shearer
Former England striker on BBC One
Orban takes Armstrong out. His right knee on to his left calf.
For me that's a clear, clear penalty.
It's a reckless challenge from the defender. It's a huge decision.
Surely the people in VAR are seeing that and telling the referee to go to the screen?
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James McFadden
Former Scotland international on BBC One
Scotland had to go and win the game. Two points wasn't likely to be enough. It's a big night of disappointment.
Could they have had a go earlier? I was waiting for Hungary to kick into life, it just wasn't a pretty game.
Scotland are out with a bit of a whimper in the end.
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Scotland didn’t deserve anything. They didn’t attack well, the defending was good until that one counter attack. People had too high expectations of them. It feels like Steve needs to leave. But they did get hard done by because that was definitely a penalty.
Jack, Stirling
In three games - 4 shots on target and 7 corners. None of these came in the first game. Scotland weren’t unlucky…they were rubbish.
Alex
RichardDominy: The Scottish crowd were fabulous - shame about the result
FT: Scotland 0-1 Hungary
Leanne Crichton
Former Scotland international on BBC Radio Scotland
The changes should have been made earlier. In world football virtually every manager makes a change on the 60 minute mark whether things are going for you or against you. It was a game Scotland needed to win.
Lawrence Shankland had more involvements in the final third in the space of 12 minutes than Che Adams the whole time he was on. I don't mean to discredit him, but Shankland carried a threat when he came on.
Armstrong carried a threat but by that point we had Kenny McLean at left-back, Jack Hendry at right-back, John McGinn and Billy Gilmour off the park.
Highlights: Scotland v Hungary
Scotland crashed out of Euro 2024 in the most heart-wrenching fashion as Kevin Csoboth's 100th-minute winner earned Hungary a stunning late victory.
The Scots, who could still have held faint hopes of the last 16 with a draw, were stung on the counter-attack to spark bedlam in the Stuttgart Arena.
It means Steve Clarke's side, who did not a shot on target, finish on one point and once again fail to make it out of a group at a major tournament.
Hungary, who lost Barnabas Varga to a sickening injury, finish Group A in third and still have a chance of going through as one of the four best third-placed teams.
'I can't believe the referee hasn't given that' - Penalty appeal
Despite the nerve-wracking tension, Scotland's fans would have started to believe late in this game.
In the closing moments and with a barrage of substitutes, opportunities opened up where before it had all been laboured.
Scotland's clearest chance fell to defender Grant Hanley moments before that Hungarian sucker punch, but his shot was too close to Peter Gulacsi and would not have counted regardless.
There were also strong shouts for a Stuart Armstrong penalty, instead it all led to cries of astonishment as no VAR check was forthcoming.
So much of the talk from the first two games was of the vulnerability in Scotland's defence, particularly on the right side.
Yet, the lack of any spark in front of goal has been an ominous shadow that has followed Clarke's team through this tournament, and it enveloped them again here.
In a game where a victory would probably have delivered legend, all Scotland could deliver was a paltry expected goals rating of 0.13.
A glut of injuries both before coming to and in camp have not helped.
But after captain Andy Robertson said there wasn't to be any regrets after failing to do themselves justice in the last Euros, the feeling of deja vu will be palpable.
'It's a clear clear penalty' - Shearer on Scotland penalty claim
The Hungarian players, just moments after the final whiste, gathered in front of a euphoric sea of red behind the goal.
The shirt of Varga was held aloft, as a nation united in celebration, when only minutes before they had done so in fear and hope after the Ferencvaros forward collided with Angus Gunn.
As painful as the blow will be for the Scotland fans, the Hungarians always looked the more likely to score, especially when Csoboth struck a post in injury time before finding the winner.
Somehow, Scotland managed to conspire to throw away a potentially precious point while about to take a corner with just seconds left.
Once again their set-piece came to nothing, and they were caught on a sweeping break down a barren Scottish left side to puncture their opponents with a clinical and cold blow.
A 14-game winning streak swept Marco Rossi's team through qualifying, and while they surrendered swathes of possession to their impotent opponents here, they have somehow fashioned hope of progression after two opening defeats.
Kevin Csoboth scores in the 100th minute
Scotland head coach Steve Clarke: "The goal comes as a consequence of us trying to win the game. The goal is almost irrelevant.
"The moment for me was the penalty. It was 100% a penalty. Someone has to explain to me why it wasn't a penalty.
"I don't understand how VAR can look at that and say it's not a penalty."
Hungary head coach Marco Rossi: "We must wait for the other results. We did what was possible with a bit of luck in the final moments.
"The luck in football, like in life, is important. At the end the result is fair. We cannot say we didn't deserve to win."
'Sorry for letting you down' - Andrew Robertson apologises to Scotland fan
This was Scotland’s 12th tournament and in 50% of those they have failed to win a match - at the 1954, 1958, 1986 and 1998 World Cups and Euro 2020 and 2024.
Hungary’s goal was the latest ever scored in a European Championship match, timed at 99 minutes and 32 seconds.
Scotland had just 17 shots at Euro 2024 in total – since the group stage was introduced in 1980, that is the t fewest by any nation in a group stage, along with Northern Ireland at Euro 2016.
Hungary ended a run of eight Euros matches without success, ing their first victory since a 2-0 win over Austria at Euro 2016. This was also their first clean sheet since that win.
There have only been two instances at these finals of a team failing to have a shot in the first half of a match and both have been Scotland - against and Hungary.
Scotland completed 249 es in the first half, the most they have had in the first half of a tournament match.
Grant Hanley completed 69 es, the most by a Scotland player in a finals game. Hanley also had more touches in the opposition box than any other Scottish player against Hungary (4).
John McGinn won five fouls, the most by a Scotland player since Christian Dailly at the 1998 World Cup v Norway (6).
After the opportunity to rate players has closed, the score displayed represents the average from all the submissions by BBC Sport s.
| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
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| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
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| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 1 |
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| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 1 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 1 |
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 0 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
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| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 1 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 1 |
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Manager: Steve Clarke
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
Manager: Marco Rossi
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
Manager: Steve Clarke
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
Manager: Marco Rossi
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
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This will be Scotland and Hungary’s first competitive encounter. All nine of their previous meetings were international friendlies (3 wins for Scotland, 4 wins for Hungary, 2 draws).
Scotland have won two of their last three meetings with Hungary (L1), with this their first encounter since a 1-0 away win in March 2018.
Scotland are looking to reach the knockout stages of the UEFA European Championship for the first time. Although they have won just two of their 11 group games at the UEFA EURO (D3 L6), both wins came on MD3: in 1992 vs CIS (3-0) and 1996 vs Switzerland (1-0).
Hungary have lost both of their games so far at EURO 2024, losing to and Switzerland. They’ve only lost all of their matches at two major tournaments before, losing both games at EURO 1972 and all three group games at the 1978 World Cup.
Scotland’s starting XI against Switzerland last time out had a combined total of 470 caps (including that game), their most for an international ever. It was also their first starting lineup to feature five players with more than 50 caps – McTominay (51), Hanley (52), McGregor (62), McGinn (68) and Robertson (73).
Hungary have only won one of their last 17 games at major tournaments (EUROs + World Cup) against European nations (D5 L11), a 2-0 win over Austria on MD1 of EURO 2016.
Excluding own goals, the six scorers of goals for Scotland at the UEFA EURO have all had surnames starting with Mc – McStay, McClair and McAllister in 1992, McCoist in 1996, McGregor in 2020 and McTominay in 2024. In addition to this, their four assisted goals have all come from Mc players (Mherson, McCoist, McAllister, McGregor).
Hungary are winless in their last eight UEFA EURO matches (D4 L4) – the only nation to have a longer winless run in the competition are Russia between 1988 and 2004 (9 games – including games as Soviet Union/CIS).
Since the start of 2023, Scott McTominay has scored eight goals in 10 competitive internationals for Scotland, only one fewer than all other Scottish players combined in that time (9 goals). McTominay has also had four of Scotland’s 13 shots at EURO 2024, as well as eight of their 27 touches in the opposition box.
Willi Orbán leads all Hungarian players at EURO 2024 for possession won (12), successful es (82), tackles made (6) and only Barnabás Varga (16) has won more duels than Orbán (11).
