Gordon Strachan feels Scotland's spirit kept them in the game despite admitting his side were second best against Denmark at Hampden.

Matt Ritchie's goal proved enough to give the Scots their second win of the week and maintain their unbeaten start to 2016.

Goalkeeper Craig Gordon pulled off a number of impressive saves to ensure the hosts retained their advantage and Strachan feels his team displayed real determination to gain a positive result.

He said: "The better side were Denmark. We kept ourselves in it with a bit of grit and determination because if you look at the Danish players they are all playing at a good level, physically playing every week.

"If you look at our side four or five guys don't even get a game. I wanted to make sure no one played two games so I sent them back to their club feeling decent about themselves

"We won two games of football, that's great. The other side of it, if you look at the physical side of Denmark compared to us, it was night and day

"It was heavyweight against a middleweight. We learn from that.

"Our team spirit kept us in it, good defending, good goalkeeping, we had a couple of chances in the second half but they were the better side because basically they are at the top of their game.

"It was a gamble we took, saying that I didn't expect them to play such a strong side for their second game and you could see they had played together.

"And I tell you again, they should have gone to the Euros, if it hadn't been for (Zlatan) Ibrahimovic (knocking them out of play-offs with Sweden). They would be a good side there so the result was good."