Scotland have touched down in Skopje, with Head Coach Sébastien Pocognoli and vice-captain John McGinn addressing the travelling Scottish press and the local media at the National Arena Todor Proeski.

After training at Barclays Hampden this morning, the squad travelled during the afternoon, arriving in North Macedonia in the early evening.

Pocognoli is hoping to secure his first win as head coach tomorrow night, as he admitted he was disappointed by the unique circumstances of Tuesday night's match, after Scotland were reduced to ten men following Jack Hendry's early red card.

"We didn't expect that kind of game," he said. "It was quite a unique situation to be down to ten men after ten minutes in my first home game.

"And to concede straightaway from the free-kick it's quite a hard situation. I don't think it's part of the process but we have to deal with this.

"In the last game we didn't have any opportunity to show what we can do and what we can improve.

"Tomorrow I hope we can show what we've trained in the last few days in the camp, what we showed for 60 minutes in Slovenia, and try to get the first win which is important for the players and staff and also for the supporters.

"The challenge is longer than just this camp. We have to do it piece by piece. For sure we want to have our first positive outcome on the pitch. It's important for the players to get the first win so everything makes sense.

"A win will give us freedom on the pitch and will accelerate the process. If we had the win in Slovenia which I think we deserved, things would look a bit different."

John McGinn, meanwhile, paid tribute to captain Andy Robertson who is set to win his 100th cap against North Macedonia.

The century of caps would move him only two short of Kenny Dalglish's all-time cap record, while McGinn himself is only eight caps behind after he moved level with Jim Leighton on 91 appearances against Switzerland on Tuesday.

McGinn paid tribute to the skipper: "The commitment, the desire to always be available, even when he was competing at the top of the European game, the top of the English game.

"Jürgen Klopp was obviously a demanding manager, his body would have been knackered at times, but even through the pain barrier he was always available for Scotland.

"Even when he was at 60% and 70%, he deserves everything that comes his way now, everything that comes his way hopefully in November or March.

"But having spoken to him, he's kind of taking it in his stride, he wants to go for more and try and achieve more in the exact same way.

"He likes to kind of talk things down, but he is an inspiration to every young player in Scotland that's probably at the moment facing some sort of rejection.

"Feeling like going to part-time football is their dream of being a professional footballer over. He is the shining example that that's just not the case and it's been an absolute honour to stand beside him during this."