Euro 2020 assessment: Turkey shocks France and the return of Northern Ireland | Soccer

World champions la France collapsed to a shock 2-0 defeat in turkey that their qualifying campaign for Euro 2020 has been hit hard.

Didier Deschamps was scathing on the performance of his team. "When you play like that at the collective level, there is nothing positive to be gained from the match," said the coach of France at TF1. "We did not play like we should have played against a team that played as it likes."

After defender Benjamin Pavard gave a free kick to the left in the 30th minute, Cengiz Ünder pushed the ball deep into the post where defender Kaan Ayhan pushed back the goals to allow Hugo Lloris to dominate powerfully. Ten minutes later, Ünder gave the advantage to Turkey. Samuel Umtiti and Paul Pogba had both lost the ball.

"We were not there (and) that's the highest level, whether you're world champions or not," Deschamps said. "When you do not show good intentions, you can not hope for anything."

The victory of Turkey allowed them to overtake France at the top of group H, while the strike of Johann Berg Gudmundsson Iceland a 1-0 home win against Albania and an early goal from Igor Armas secured a 1-0 win for 10 men Moldova at home for Andorra.

Goals of Leroy Sané and Marco Reus in Belarus were enough to land Germany a second win of their two matches up here in Group C.

North Ireland to stay on top after surviving a fear as substitutes Conor Washington and Josh Magennis scored to snatch a 2-1 win in Estonia After Konstantin Vbadiljev gave a free kick to his hosts.

It would seem that this would be the difference between the two teams as struggles against Northern Ireland continued, but Michael O'Neill's men turned around Tallinn in the last 15 minutes.

Washington hit first, cutting to the left before coming back – perhaps with the help of a deflection of Magennis, who then had the slightest move to turn Jordan Jones's center past the reach of Sergei Lepmets.

Finalist World Cup Croatia maintaining control of group E and distribution of semi-finalists of Euro 2016 Wales a setback with a 2-1 win over a hot afternoon in Osijek.

A goal from James Lawrence in the 17th minute and a shot by Ivan Perisic early in the second half sealed the fate of Wales before his replacement, David Brooks, took out one. Willi Orban scored twice Hungary won 3-1 in Azerbaijan in the other group match.

Belgium stayed ahead of Group I after a 3-0 home win against kazakhstan thanks to the goals of Dries Mertens, Timothy Castagne and Romelu Lukaku.

Artem Dzyuba scored four goals and Michele Cevoli scored two goals as Russia hit San Marino 9-0, the biggest game of the post-Soviet era, while Oliver Burke's 89th-minute strike came forward. Scotland out of jail in a 2-1 win at home to Cyprus The cry of Andy Robertson was canceled by Ioannis Kousoulos.

In group J, Italy ran comfortable 3-0 winners in Greece to make three wins out of three. Nicolò Barella, Lorenzo Insigne and Leonardo Bonucci were in goal in the first half. Teemu Pukki scored twice Finland cast Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-0 to climb to second place, while Armenia ran 3-0 winners against liechtenstein.