![]() He was also, by far, the highest-rated player by the BBC Sport audience with a score of 8.66. He won the ball back for his side five times, as well as becoming the first Czech player to score twice at a finals in 15 years. The Sparta Prague academy product scored 13 goals in 36 games at club level, and before kick-off at Hampden had been involved in eight goals in his last eight starts at international level.īut it wasn't just Schick's goal-scoring that caught the eye. Schick, a £22m-signing for Leverkusen from Roma last September, came into this summer's finals on the back of an impressive debut season with the Bundesliga side. But the Scotland keeper found himself crashing into the net, along with the ball. Marshall, who clearly wasn't expecting the Leverkusen forward's strike from distance, was sent scrambling. Schick stepped forward into the Scotland half and unleashed a ferocious effort that started well outside David Marshall's left-hand post. While some fingers might be pointed at Scotland centre-back Jack Hendry, whose ambitious shot was blocked and bounced into the Schick's path, but few could have foreseen what would happen next. Then he took the air from the Glasgow ground entirely with what might just be the best European Championship goal ever. 'Painfully familiar, as Scots suffer again'.The Bayer Leverkusen forward had already scored a splendid header just before the break to deflate a Hampden that was fit to burst in Scotland's first appearance at a men's finals in 23 years. ![]()
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