Scottish Premiership Goalscorers At The World Cup
Elijah Just added his name to a small band of men
Motherwell’s Elijah Just scored twice for New Zealand in their 2-2 draw with Iran this week. Both goals were superbly taken and, after a sensational season in the Scottish Premiership, he is likely to become Motherwell’s record sale if he moves on, eclipsing the £4.5m the Well received for Lennon Miller last year.
A Scottish top-flight player scoring at a World Cup is actually a pretty rare achievement, and Eli Just has already become the joint-second-highest scoring World Cup player based in Scotland.
He is only the second player to score a World Cup double while playing for a Scottish club, after Celtic’s Henrik Larsson scored twice against Nigeria in Sweden’s 2-1 win in 2002. Larsson also scored against Senegal in a last-16 defeat at the same tournament, making Henrik the highest-scoring Scottish-based World Cup player ever.
With two goals, Just is now level with Brian Laudrup, who scored against both Nigeria and Brazil at France 1998, in the final few weeks of his Rangers contract before joining Chelsea on 1st July that year.
The list of all 13 Scottish-based World Cup goalscorers:
