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Spain, Holland and England remained unbeaten in the playoffs on Wednesday, Global Europe, while France and Italy came out flying colors with a man who played almost the whole match less tied 1-1 with Ireland.

Spain overcame a 2-1 Turkey, Netherlands to Macedonia Golea 4-0, 2-1 defeat to England and France beat Ukraine 1-0 to Lithuania.


Albert Riera scored in the time off for the victory of Spain, bringing the European champions retained their foja perfect. Riera took a gap in the Turkish defense to score two minutes of time off after receiving a pass from Daniel Guiza.

Semih Senturk gave the advantage to the Turks for 26 to complete a combination between Tuncay Sanli and Arda Turan. Xabi Alonso headed the same for Vicente del Bosque took a penalty when the 62.


Spain's victory allowed them to tie the best streak in the history of selection, with 31 games without knowing defeat. Equal the achievement of the team then headed by Javier Clemente, who totaled 31 games without losing, between September 1994 and January 1998.

"The eleven victories reflect a favorable inertia, everything comes in the face and that is good in football, you have to use it," noted the coach Vicente del Bosque Spanish after the meeting.


Spain leads Group 5 with 18 points.

John Terry scored the goal of victory to 85 minutes, which the British joined five consecutive wins in the playoffs.


The England captain scored a short distance after he received a David Beckham free-kick, which received and Steven Gerrard sent a short pass to Terry. The British retained a five point advantage at the head of Group 6.

Peter Crouch took the lead on the British to 29 minutes in the match held at Wembley, but the substitute Andriy Shevchenko equaled 74.


In their respective commitments, Holland and France made good progress towards the world. The tulips were imposed with two goals from Dirk Kuyt, another of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and one substitute Rafael van der Vaart, while the French scoring fell through Franck Ribéry in the match played in Saint-Denis.

In Bari, Robbie Keane scored for 89 minutes to give Ireland a 1-1 tie with Italy before he suffered a near expulsion of entry. Vincenzo Iaquinta had put Italy in front at 10.


The striker Giampaolo Pazzini was expelled after three minutes to beat a poke at John O'Shea as he jumps for a head shot, a blow that caused bleeding in the face of the Irish defender.

Italy, current world champion, leads Group 8 with 14 points, followed by Ireland with 12 and Bulgaria with seven.


In another encounter, Germany retained his lead of four points in front of their group with a 2-0 victory in Wales.

Captain Michael Ballack scored in the Millennium stadium and Ashley Williams gave an own goal to give tricampeones world's fourth victory in Group 4 continued.


In other results, 2-1 over Greece to Israel, Northern Ireland realized by 1-0 Slovenia, Slovakia beat the Czech Republic 2-1, 2-0 defeat to Switzerland and Scotland beat Moldova 2-1 to Iceland .

Moreover, Russia overcame a 1-0 Liechtenstein, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 defeat to Belgium, Poland tries to San Marino 10-0, beat Denmark 3-0 to Albania and Hungary to Malta Golea 3-0.