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Sweden wins European qualifying by beating Romania in Stockholm

Sweden wins European qualifying by beating Romania in Stockholm

Robin Quaison and Viktor Claesson were well placed for Sweden to beat Romania 2-1 in Stockholm and start their European qualification.

Quaison and Claesson gave Sweden a brace at the break, despite substitute Claudiu Keseru's response.

Elsewhere in the group, Spain Captain Sergio Ramos scored for the fifth consecutive international as his team took a winning start for the Euro 2020 qualifier against Norway.

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Highlights of Group F at the 2020 European Qualifying Match between Sweden and Romania

Highlights of Group F at the 2020 European Qualifying Match between Sweden and Romania

Real Madrid's defender was awarded a Panenka penalty, while La Roja went 2-1 in his first Group F match in Valencia.

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Rodrigo had opened the scoring for Luis Enrique's team and although Josh King had equalized from the penalty spot, Ramos had the last word with his 16th goal of the season for the club and the country.

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Highlights of the European qualifier between Spain and Norway since Mestalla, Valencia

Highlights of the European qualifier between Spain and Norway since Mestalla, Valencia

The goals of Kostas Fortounis and Anastasios Donis have given Greece a 2-0 win liechtenstein in the European qualifiers, group J, while Bosnia-Herzegovina beat Armenia 2-1.

Rade Krunic opened the scoring and Deni Milosevic, substitute, made it 2-0 after good work by Edin Dzeko in his 100th international appearance and Edin Visca.

Arsenal playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan bowed to a penalty.

Elsewhere in group J, Italy beat Finland 2-0 in their first match.

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Highlights of Group J at the 2020 European Qualifying Match between Italy and Finland

Highlights of Group J at the 2020 European Qualifying Match between Italy and Finland

Nicolo Barella quickly gave the Azzurri advantage to Udine, the first international goal by Juventus striker Moise Kean having secured his victory.

In Group D, Jeff Hendrick scored the only goal as Republic of Ireland sharp minnows Gibraltar 1-0.

Ireland has struggled against the group ranked 194th in the world – and only San Marino among the nations of UEFA.

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Mick McCarthy's team missed several blatant chances in the first half and was indebted to a brilliant victory from Darren Randolph just after half-time but was won when Hendrick swept David McGoldrick's withdrawal.

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Highlights of the European qualifier between Gibraltar and the Republic of Ireland

Highlights of the European qualifier between Gibraltar and the Republic of Ireland

Swiss beat Georgia 2-0 in the other group match.

After a scoreless first half, Steven Zuber gave the advantage to Switzerland and Denis Zakaria's goal 10 minutes from the end allowed the win to win.

Ten men Malta beat the Faroe Islands by the same score in a fierce meeting between the two outsiders of the group.

Kyrian Nwoko gave the advantage to Malta in the first half and Steve Borg's penalty was decisive.

Andrei Agius was sent off but Brandur Hendriksson missed the goal for the Faroe Islands, who scored Jakup Thomsen's goal in the eighth minute.

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