The midfielder for Manchester United scored once more. [Image: Getty]

Georgia’s players have come under fire from Scott McTominay for acting theatrically during their 2-2 draw with Scotland on Thursday night, which hurts their prospects of winning the group.

The Scots were hoping to overcome Georgia and Norway in order to move up to the top of Group A and qualify for the European Championships in Germany the following summer.

While their hopes of doing so are still just about alive, they are now reliant on Georgia winning in Spain after they were held to a draw in Tbilisi.

Napoli superstar Khvicha Kvaratskhelia opened the scoring after just 15 minutes but his effort was cancelled out by McTominay at the start of the second half, with the Manchester United midfielder continuing his excellent scoring form.

Kvaratskhelia doubled his tally not long after but Scotland salvaged a point in the second minute of stoppage time through Lawrence Shankland.

Georgia were desperate to try and cling onto the three points late on with a number of their players play-acting and the match became a rather fiery affair, with McTominay slamming their conduct afterwards.

The United player stated, “Every game at this level is big and obviously they’ve got some really good footballers,” in an interview with Viaplay.

However, I felt that the manner they were acting on the field tonight was shameful, as it was blatantly agitating the referee as well as us players.

It’s not how things should happen, but that’s football, and that’s simply how things work sometimes.

Keeping our composure is necessary, but it’s challenging. Although there are some disgruntled players in the locker room, I think we can improve on this and return twice.

Probed further on the behaviour of some of the Georgia players, McTominay continued: ‘It’s sad. They should do something about people just pretending that they’re injured when they’re not and stuff like that.

‘It’s a difficult one to call but rolling around crying like babies all afternoon is not football. For us, we just wanted to get on with the game and play and do our best to win the game. Whereas on the other side they were provoking the referee a lot.’

Incredibly, McTominay has now netted seven times in the Euro 2024 qualification campaign, with only Romelu Lukaku (10) and Cristiano Ronaldo (9) scoring more goals.

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