The World Cup qualifiers saw Uruguay, Colombia, Paraguay, Morocco and Tunisia through to the 2026 finals while several other teams strengthened their positions.
In Africa, Uganda put 4 past their visitors from Mozambique in the second half with a double from Rogers Mato while Angola lost to a single goal at home to Libya and Gambia gained a 3-1 victory in Kenya. Malawi, who defeated Namibia 2-1 in Botswana, could only draw 2-2 with Liberia on their return home with Ayouba Kosiah scoring both goals for the visitors while Guinea held their Algerian hosts to a goalless draw and one goal gave Benin a win against Zimbabwe in the Ivory Coast. Sierra Leone put 2 past Ethiopia in Liberia and one goal was enough to give Rwanda a win over Zimbabwe in South Africa while South Sudan held hosts Mauritania to a goalless draw. In North America, Guatemala were stunned 1-0 at home to El Salvador but earned a 1-1 draw in Panama while El Salvador lost 2-1 at home to Suriname and Costa Rica drew 1-1 in Nicaragua. Costa Rica took a 2-goal lead but needed a goal in stoppage time to earn a 3-3 draw after Duckens Nazon scored a hat-trick for their Haitian visitors. In South America Bolivia beat Brazil 1-0 to reach the play-offs as Venezuela were brushed aside 6-3 at home to Colombia for whom Luis Suarez netted 4 times.
I Europe Greece were embarrassed 3-0 by the travelling Danes while Sweden suffered a 2-0 loss in Kosovo who ended the match with 10 players and in a thrilling match Dor Perez scored twice for Israel and Moise Kean netted twice for the visiting Italians who ran out 5-4 winners. Slovakia celebrated a 2-0 home victory over Germany while Northern Ireland were 3-1 winners at 10-man Luxembourg and Poland drew 1-1 in the Netherlands. Mikel Merino scored a hat-trick as Spain ran riot 6-0 in Turkey and Israel cruised 4-0 past Moldova on their travels while the Czech Republic struck twice in Montenegro and England thumped 10-man Serbia 5-0 on their travels.
Posts
