Russia lose to Israel, England handed lifeline, Scotland dream over

Here are the results from European qualifying on Saturday, 17th November.

The teams which have confirmed their place in next summer’s European Championships are

Group B – Italy and France.

Group D– Germany and Czech Republic.

Group E– Croatia through. Battle between England and Russia for the other spot.

Group F – Spain have qualified. Northern Ireland need to win their next game and hope that Sweden don’t get any points against Latvia.

Group G- Romania and Holland.

Group A – Poland.

Group C- Greece. Turkey and Norway will fight it out for the second spot.

10 out of the 16 spots have been determined.

Results-

Group A :

Poland 2-0 Belgium ( Ebi Smolarek *2)

Finland 2-1 Azerbaijan ( Mikael Forssell, Shefki Kuqi/ Gurban Gurbanov)

Portugal 1-0 Armenia ( Hugo Almeida)

Group B :

Scotland 1-2 Italy ( Barry Ferguson/ Luca Toni, Christian Panucci)

Lithuania 2-0 Ukraine ( Mantas Savenas, Tomas Danilevicius)

Group C :

Moldova 3-0 Hungary ( Igor Bugaev, Nicolae Josan, Serghei Alexeev)

Norway 1-2 Turkey ( Erik Hagen/ Belozoglu Emre, Nihat Kahveci)

Greece 5-0 Malta ( Theofanis Gekas *3, Angelos Basinas, Ioannis Amanatidis)

Group D : 

Wales 2-2 Republic of Ireland ( Jason Koumas *2/ Robbie Keane, Kevin Doyle)

Germany 4-0 Cyprus ( Miroslav Klose, Clemens Fritz, Lukas Podolski, Thomas Hitzlsperger)

Czech Republic 3-1 Slovakia ( Zdenek Grygera, Marek Kulic, Tomas Rosicky, Michal Kadlec OG)

Group E :

Andorra 0-2 Estonia ( Andres Oper, Joel Lindpere)

Macedonia 2-0 Croatia ( Goran Maznov, Ilco Naumoski)

Israel 2-1 Russia ( Elyaniv Barda, Omer Golan/ Diniyar Bilyaletdinov)

Group F :

Northern Ireland 2-1 Denmark ( Warren Feeney, David Healy/ Nicolas Bendtner)

Spain 3-0 Sweden ( Joan Capdevila, Sergio Ramos, Andres Iniesta)

Latvia 4-1 Liechenstein ( Girts Karlsons, Maris Verpakovskis, Jurijs Laizans,Alexsejs Visnjakovs, Dzintars Zirnis OG)

Group G :

Holland 1-0 Luxembourg ( Danny Kovermans)

Bulgaria 1-0 Romania ( Velizar Dimitrov)

Albania 2-4 Belarus ( Erion Bogdani, Edmond Kapllani/ Maxsim Romaschenko *2, Vitaly Kuztsov *2 )

Serbia will take on Kazakhstan on the 18th.

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