Meet the striker who doesn't score often - but Scotland win when he does
Key takeaways
- Dykes has scored in nine different international games - twice in one - and has won the lot.
- He has only scored one international goal in three years and only scores intermittently in club football; six in 43 last season, six in 34 the season before, seven in 43 the season before that.
- Goals or no goals, his impact is measured in other ways; physicality, personality, energy.
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PA Media By Tom English BBC Scotland's chief sports writer in Charlotte Published16 June 2026, 22:33 BSTUpdated 13 minutes ago Lyndon Dykes has his own place in the folklore of Steve Clarke's team, a shaven-headed cult hero, a striker who doesn't score very often but when he does, Scotland always win.
Dykes has scored in nine different international games - twice in one - and has won the lot. He scored the winner in four of them.
All of that goes back awhile, of course. He has only scored one international goal in three years and only scores intermittently in club football; six in 43 last season, six in 34 the season before, seven in 43 the season before that.