Manchester United's Scott McTominay denied stunning free-kick goal for Scotland in VAR controversy

Manchester United's Scott McTominay was enraged after VAR denied him a stunning free-kick goal for Scotland against Spain. Scotland took on Spain away from home in Sevilla on Thursday night and they needed just a draw from the game to qualify for the upcoming summer's European Championship, which will be hosted across Germany.

The game was all square at half-time and McTominay looked to have given Scotland a lead in the 59th minute when scoring a sublime free-kick, curling the ball into the net from outside of the box, from what seemed an impossible angle.

McTominay, who has been in red-hot scoring form for Scotland during Euro qualifying games, wildly celebrated, but VAR intervened and the initial explanation was Spain's goalkeeper Unai Simon had been fouled.

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That was later changed, with the reason of a Scotland player being offside and interfering with play given for the decision instead. Spain also scored moments after McTominay's effort was disallowed and eventually won the game 2-0.

Scotland captain John McGinn bit his tongue after the defeat: “You need to be very careful what you say. I think everyone watching that game tonight from a Scotland point of view, wherever you were, it just felt like we weren’t getting any 50/50 decisions.

It made it very difficult against a world-class team. You need a perfect performance here to win, and everything to align and it was just never going to happen.

“He (the referee) changed it (his reasoning on the VAR check) in the game, which is the annoying thing. It means it’s not clear and obvious. Is he going to save it? No chance. No goalkeeper in the world is