Scotland manager Gordon Strachan has expressed his delight with his side's victory over Macedonia away from home on Tuesday.

Ikechi Anya and Shaun Maloney scored for the Scots in Skopje as they registered a 2-1 win in the World Cup Group A qualifier.

"I'm extremely happy for the players and I thought they were terrific tonight," BBC Sport quotes him as saying.

"A draw would have been hard to take and it was hard to think how you would win a game on a surface like that."

Scotland are currently fourth in the group with eight points from nine matches.