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Italy and France make it to Euro 2008

London: World champion Italy qualified for the European Championship and took France along with it by beating Scotland 2-1. Spain, Croatia, Poland and the Netherlands also advanced.

The results: Group A: Finland 2 (Mikael Forssell 79, Shefki Kuqi 85) bt Azerbaijan 1 (Makhmud Gurbono 63); Poland 2 (Euzebiuz Smolarek 44, 49) bt Belgium 0; Portugal 1 (Hugo Almeida 42) bt Armenia 0; Group B: Lithuania 2 (Savenas 41, Tomas Danilevicius 67) bt Ukraine 0; Scotland 1 (Barry Ferguson 65) lost to Italy 2 (Luca Toni 2, Christian Panucci 90). Group C: Greece 5 (Theofanis Gekas 33, 72, 74 Angelos Basinas 54, Ioannis Amanatidis 62) bt Malta 0; Moldova 3 (Igor Bugaev 13, Nicolai Zosan 23, Serghei Alecseev 86) bt Hungary 0; Norway 1 (Erik Hagen 12) lost to Turkey 2 (Emre Belozoglu 31, Nihat Kahveci 60); Group D: Czech Republic 3 (Zdenek Grygera 13, Marek Kulic 77, Tomas Rosicky 83) bt Slovakia 1 (Michal Kadlec own goal 79); Germany 4 (Clemens Fritz 2, Miroslav Klose 20, Lukas Podolski 53, Thomas Hitzlsperger 82) bt Cyprus 0; Wales 2 (Jason Koumas 23, 89 pen) drew with Ireland 2 (Robbie Keane 31, Kevin Doyle 60); Group E: Andorra 0 lost to Estonia 2 (Andres Oper 31, Joel Lindpere 61); Macedonia 2 (Goran Maznov 71, Ilco Naumoski 79) bt Croatia 0; Israel 2 (Elyaniv Barda 10, Omer Golan 90+2) bt Russia 1 (Diniyar Bilyaletdinov 60); Group F: Latvia 4 (Girts Karlsons 14, Maris Verpakovskis 30, Juris Laizans 64, Aleksejs Veshnyakovs 87) bt Liechtenstein 1 (Dzintars Zirnis og 13); Northern Ireland 2 (Warren Feeney 62, David Healy 80) bt Denmark 1 (Nicklas Bendtner 51); Spain 3 (Joan Capdevila 14, Andres Iniesta 39, Sergio Ramos 66) bt Sweden 0. Group G: Albania 2 (Erion Bogdani 39, Edmond Kapllani 43) lost to Belarus 4 (Maxim Romashchenko 32, 63 pen, Vitaly Kutuzov 45+1, 55); Bulgaria 1 (Velizar Dimitrov 6) bt Romania 0; Netherlands 1 (Danny Koevermans 44) bt Luxembourg 0. — Agencies