Norway v Scotland: Facing Lionel Messi & co has me ready for Erling Haaland - Jack Hendry

Jack Hendry (left) recovered from injury to finish the season in Club Brugge's starting line-up

Scotland's Jack Hendry says facing Neymar, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe in the Champions League has prepared him for taking on Erling Haaland.

Hendry also played against Manchester City for Club Brugge before the Norwegian arrived to help the English side become European champions.

Scotland are next in the striker's firing line in his country's Euro 2024 qualifier in Oslo on Saturday.

But Hendry gets "a real excitement" tackling "these type of players".

Centre-back Hendry described Haaland - who scored 52 goals for City - as "an amazing player with an amazing record this season".

But the 28-year-old said he "will definitely be relishing, if I get called upon, to try and get the better of him" and "testing yourself against the best in the world".

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The pre-Haaland City thumped Brugge 4-1 and 5-1 in 2021. However, while PSG also beat the Belgians 4-1 in France, Hendry helped restrict a side containing Messi, Neymar, Mbappe to a 1-1 draw in their home game.

"Haaland, like every other player, I will study and see how they are going to play and come up with a best solution on how to deal with them," he said.

"But playing against top strikers like Mbappe will give me great experience going into these type of contests.

"The more games you play at that level, the more confidence it gives you and I am lucky enough to have played quite a few games at that level now."

Hendry started the season on loan at Cremonese in Serie A and then missed three months with a knee injury shortly after facing Benfica back at Brugge in the Champions League knockout stages in February.

However, he was back in his club starting line-up for the final three games of the season and his chances of adding to his 21 Scotland caps has been increased by the absence through injury of Grant Hanley and Scott McKenna.

"It was kind of an up-and-down season for me, but I made sure I worked hard at Club Brugge to get those games and get those minutes and it has paid off coming into these games," Hendry added.

"I like to put myself out the comfort zone and went to play in Italy. The chance came up, it was probably just the wrong club at the wrong time, but I learnt a lot from it."