Eastwood Strikes at the Double to Hand Wales a Welcome Win

Freddy Eastwood's first goals since August gave Wales the win they wanted in a friendly against a Luxembourg side ranked 101 places below them, although the home team were unusually confident following their first competitive victory in 12 years, last October's 1-0 win in a Euro 2008 qualifier in Belarus.

Good control and an effective finish from the Wolves striker, whose last start for his club was on Boxing Day, put Wales in front after 37 minutes and his second, firing in the captain Simon Davies' low cross a minute after the restart, killed the game off for John Toshack's side, now undefeated in five games.

David Healy was presented with a special award by Uefa's president Michel Platini before Northern Ireland's 4-1 win over Georgia to mark his record 13 goals in qualifying for Euro 2008, and it only took the Fulham forward 33 minutes to get another, albeit with a deflected shot from 25 yards. By that time Nigel Worthington's side were already a goal ahead, Kyle Lafferty opening the scoring after a neat move and the same player added a header for the third before half-time. Bizarrely, Healy scored an own-goal in the second half but Georgia responded in kind in the 87th minute.

Nigeria became the final team to qualify for the Olympics when they beat South Africa 3-0 in Abuja, the Everton reserve Victor Anichebe making his debut as a substitute and sealing victory for the Under-23 team. Taye Taiwo had put them in front with a header before South Africa conceded an own goal.

Benni McCarthy helped South Africa's senior side beat Paraguay 3-0, the Blackburn striker scoring their second goal in the 47th minute with a header although his club-mate Roque Santa Cruz, the Paraguay striker, was carried off with an ankle injury after a tackle by Aaron Mokoena, another Rovers player.

Belarus, who face England in a World Cup qualifier on October 15, drew 2-2 with Turkey, Middlesbrough's Tuncay Sanli equalizing their opener in the first half before Viacheslav Hleb, younger brother of Arsenal's Alexander, gave the home side the lead again only for the Turks to equalize with 19 minutes to go. Kazakhstan, due to Wembley four days earlier, lost 1-0 in Armenia

Ukraine, whose Wembley qualifier is in April 2009, won 2-0 against Serbia, Andriy Shevchekno getting the first nine minutes into the second half and Serhiy Nazarenko following up soon after.

Denmark drew 1-1 with the Czech Republic, Nicklas Bendtner opening the scoring for them after 25 minutes but Jan Koller, the 6ft 8in striker so derided until England unearthed Peter Crouch, equalized before half time. Israel beat Chile 1-0 in Tel Aviv, Liverpool's Yossi Benayoun getting the goal from a free kick, while Greece proved their win at Euro 2004 was no fluke, defeating the finalists Portugal 2-1 in Dusseldorf, Georgios Karagounis getting both goals before Nuno Gomes made a game of it.

A late penalty save by Middlesbrough's Mark Schwarzer gave Australia, missing the injured Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill and Brett Emerton among others, a point from their 0-0 draw in Asia's Group One World Cup qualifier against China in Kunming.