Mark McGhee does not see any weaknesses in the Germany team but is optimistic about Scotland’s chances in their 2016 European Championship clash next Sunday.

The Scots will travel to Dortmund for the Group D opener with few giving them a chance against a team who won the World Cup so impressively in the summer, beating Argentina 1-0 in the final after demolishing host nation Brazil 7-1 in the semi-final.

However the Scotland assistant manager, while acknowledging the talent within the German squad, believes there will be “opportunities” for Gordon Strachan’s side to get off to a positive start in the campaign.

“I don’t think there are any weaknesses,” said McGhee.

“What there are, is opportunities. At some point in the game we will have the ball and it is what we do with it then.

“We can’t wonder if the right-back or the right centre-half is a weakness.

“They don’t have weaknesses but that doesn’t mean to say that we can’t be successful against them.

“We have seen teams who have done well against them, like Chile in the World Cup but we expect them to be the Germany that we saw win the World Cup and therefore we have to be at our best.

“Whatever happens in this game, I still expect Germany to win the section.

“They will be excited about the occasion and optimistic about going to France (for the 2016 Euro finals) and doing what Spain did, winning a double.

“But whoever we were playing we would be preparing in the exact same way, we wouldn’t be doing anything different this week.”