FOOTBALL

Euro 2008 qualifiers

Wednesday, group A — Finland 0 Poland 0 Kazakhstan 2 (Dmitry Byakov 39, Samat Smakov 77pen) Belgium 2 Portugal 1 (Simao Sabrosa 11) Serbia 1 (Branislav Ivanovic 88) group B — France 0 Scotland 1 (James McFadden 64) Lithuania 2 (Edgares Jankauskas 7, Tomas Danilevicius 50) Faroe Islands 1 (Rogvi Jacobsen 90+3) Ukraine 1 (Andriy Shevchenko 72) Italy 2 (Antonio Di Natale 40, 77) group C — Bosnia 0 Moldova 1 (Igor Bugaev 22) Norway 2 (John Carew 15, John Arne Riise 39) Greece 2 (Sotirios Kyrgiakos 6, 29) Turkey 3 (Gokhan Unal 68, Mehmet Aurelio 72, Halil Altintop 90+4) Hungary 0 group D — Cyprus 3 (Konstantinos Makridis 15, Efstathios Aloneftis 41, 90) San Marino 0 Czech Republic 1 (Marek Jankulovski 15) Ireland 0 Slovakia 2 (Marek Mintal 12, Marek Mintal 57) Wales 5 (Freddy Eastwood 22, Craig Bellamy 34, 41, Jan Durica og 78, Simon Davies 90) group E — Andorra 0 Croatia 6 (Darijo Srna 34, Mladen Petric 38, 44, Niko Kranjcar 49, Eduardo da Silva 55, Ivan Rakitic 64) England 3 (Michael Owen 7, 31, Rio Ferdinand 84) Russia 0 Macedonia 1 (Goran Maznov 30) Estonia 1 (Raio Piiroja 16) group F — Denmark 4 (Morten Nordstrand 3, 36, Martin Laursen 12, Jon Dahl Tomasson 18) Liechtenstein 0 Iceland 2 (Armann Smari Bjornsson 5, Keith Gillespie og 88) Northern Ireland 1 (David Healy 70pen) Spain 2 (Xavi 13, Fernando Torres 85) Latvia 0 group G — Albania 0 Netherlands 1 (Ruud van Nistelrooy 90+1), Bulgaria 3 (Dimitar Berbatov 27, 28, Martin Petrov 54 pen) Luxembourg 0 Slovenia 1 (Klemen Lavric 2) Belarus 0

INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES

Wednesday: Malta — Malta 0 Armenia 1 (Artur Voskanyan 26) Cologne — Germany 3 (Bernd Schneider 42, David Odonkor 65, Lukas Podolski 82) Romania 1 (Dorin Goian 3) Johannesburg — South Africa 0 Uruguay 0 Austria — Austria 0 Chile 2 (Hugo Droguett 66, Eduardo Rubio 83) Vienna — Switzerland 3 (Ludovic Magnin 11, Blaise Nkufo 13pen, Johan Djourou 81) Japan 4 (Shunsuke Nakamura 52pen, 78pen, Seiichiro Maki 67, Kisho Yano 90)

RUGBY

WORLD CUP

Wednesday: USA (3) 15 (tries: MacDonald, Stanfill conversions: Hercus, pen: Hercus) Tonga: (13) 25 (tries: Maka, Vaka, Vaki, conversions: Hola 2, pen: Hola 2) Japan (9) 31 (tries: Thompson 2, Soma conversions: Onishi 2, pen: Onishi 4) Fiji (10) 35 (tries: Qera 2, Rabeni, Leawere, cons: Little 3, pen: Little 3) Italy (8) 24 (tries: Dellape, conversions; Pez, pen: Bortolussi, Pez 3) Romania (0) 18 (tries: Manta, Tincu, conversions Dimofte, pen: Dimofte 2)