Romania and Albania book Euro 2016 spots

Earlier, Albania qualified for their first major worldwide tournament as they beat Armenia 3-0, while Romania also booked their place at the finals after a 3-0 win in the Faroe Islands.

Later, world champions Germany will bid to wrap up a qualifying spot when they host Group D opponents Georgia in Leipzig. It was Greece’s first home goal in the qualifiers. It tied the mark set by David Healy of Northern Ireland in Euro 2008 qualifying. Germany was unconvincing for long periods against Georgia and had to wait until Mueller’s penalty in the 50th minute to make the breakthrough.

However, three minutes later, Tachtsidis made a defense-splitting pass to Costas Mitroglou who made it 3-3 before Kone scored the victor from Jose Holebas’ cross.

Grzegorz Krychowiak netted a 13th-minute opener for the Poles in Warsaw before Jon Walters levelled from the penalty spot shortly after. Lewandowski claimed the victor with a header to Krzysztof Maczynski’s cross in the 42nd.

Group F: Two first-half goals by Constantin Bulescu helped Romania secured its spot in France with a 3-0 away win over Faeroe Islands, while Greece beat Hungary 4-3 to avoid a winless qualifying campaign.

Germany, Poland, Albania and Romania joined already qualified Wales, Belgium, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, England, hosts France, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland in the 24-team finals.

Steven Fletcher scored his second Group D hat-trick against Gibraltar as Scotland concluded their failed campaign with an easy 6-0 win over the section minnows at the Estadio Algarve in Faro.

The top two teams in each of the nine qualifying groups advance automatically, along with the best third-placed team.

While Lenjani spent the match on the bench, former Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille man Cana played the full 90 minutes as Armenia’s Kamo Hovhannisyan opened the scoring with an own-goal (9′, o.g.) before Berat Xhimshiti (23′) and substitute Armando Sadiku (76′) made sure of the three points that saw the Eagles leapfrog Denmark into second place.

The visitors were without the rested Cristiano Ronaldo but took a fifth-minute lead through stand-in skipper Nani as the ex-Manchester United winger converted the rebound after Danny’s shot was saved by Vladimir Stojkovic. Serbia and Armenia finished with only four and two points each.

No one believed it, but qualification is already a reality.

Aleksandar Kolarov was sent off for protesting that the goal should not have stood and then in the 81st minute, Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic was also shown a red card for swiping his arm at Andre Andre during an aerial duel.