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Wales 0-0 Estonia, Northern Ireland 0-0 Switzerland: World Cup qualifying – as it happened

Wales 00 Estonia Northern Ireland 00 Switzerland World Cup qualifying  as it happened
Clockwatch: No goals in Cardiff or Belfast on a frustrating but not disastrous night for Wales and Northern Ireland. Scott Murray was watching.
Gareth Bale rues a missed chance.
Key events Show
  • 9.48pm BST21:48 The full-time scores
  • 8.38pm BST20:38 The half-time scores
  • 8.11pm BST20:11 GOAL! Iceland 0-2 Germany (Antonio Rudiger 24).
  • 7.15pm BST19:15 All the other team news
  • 6.56pm BST18:56 Team news from Cardiff
  • 6.52pm BST18:52 Team news from Belfast
  • 6.45pm BST18:45 Preamble
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10.05pm BST22:05

Thanks for reading this Clockwatch. Nighty night!

10.04pm BST22:04

Julian Taylor was at Windsor Park. Here’s his take on Northern Ireland’s tense tussle with Switzerland.

10.02pm BST22:02

Ben Fisher was in Cardiff to witness Welsh frustration first hand. Here’s his report.

9.54pm BST21:54

Those aren’t ideal results for Northern Ireland and Wales ... but neither are the pair of goalless draws against, respectively, Switzerland and Estonia, disastrous. First place in Group E already looked a pipe dream for Wales, with Belgium running away with Group E, but Rob Page’s side have now drawn level on points with the second-placed Czech Republic, and they’ve got a game in hand. Northern Ireland meanwhile missed out on the chance of leapfrogging Switzerland into second place, but they stay on their tails, three points shy with four games still to play.

9.48pm BST21:48

The full-time scores

Group BGreece 2-1 SwedenKosovo 0-2 Spain

Group CItaly 5-0 LithuaniaNorthern Ireland 0-0 Switzerland

Group EBelarus 0-1 BelgiumWales 0-0 Estonia

Group IAlbania 5-0 San MarinoHungary 2-1 AndorraPoland 1-1 England

Group JArmenia 1-1 LiechtensteinIceland 0-4 GermanyNorth Macedonia 0-0 Romania

9.47pm BST21:47

FULL TIME: Hungary 2-1 Andorra

9.44pm BST21:44

FULL TIME: Greece 2-1 Sweden.

9.44pm BST21:44

FULL TIME: North Macedonia 0-0 Romania.

9.44pm BST21:44

FULL TIME: Poland 1-1 England. A draw that will feel like a defeat ... but a draw/defeat that shouldn’t make too much difference in the grand scheme of things. Simon Burnton has the details.

9.43pm BST21:43

FULL TIME: Wales 0-0 Estonia. Gareth Bale looks sickened as the final whistle goes in Cardiff. The Welsh couldn’t find a way past the inspired Estonia keeper Karl Hein, who nonetheless had the woodwork to thank a couple of times as well.

9.41pm BST21:41

GOAL! Poland 1-1 England (Damian Szymanski 90+2). Robert Lewandowski turns provider for once, standing one up for Damian Szymanski to knock home. It probably makes little difference to England’s qualification chances, but there goes that 100 percent record in the group.

9.40pm BST21:40

FULL TIME: Iceland 0-4 Germany.

Updated at 9.41pm BST

9.39pm BST21:39

FULL TIME: Italy 5-0 Lithuania.

9.39pm BST21:39

FULL TIME: Albania 5-0 San Marino.

9.38pm BST21:38

FULL TIME: Northern Ireland 0-0 Switzerland. Bailey Peacock­-Farrell is the Irish hero after saving Haris Seferović’s first-half penalty, though Shayne Lavery had a very impressive game too. Northern Ireland leapfrog Bulgaria into third place in Group C.

9.35pm BST21:35

FULL TIME: Belarus 0-1 Belgium.

9.35pm BST21:35

FULL TIME: Kosovo 0-2 Spain.

9.34pm BST21:34

GOAL! Kosovo 0-2 Spain (Ferran Torres 88). Job done for the 2010 winners in Pristina.

9.32pm BST21:32

GOAL! Iceland 0-4 Germany (Timo Werner 88). Well that makes up for earlier.

9.32pm BST21:32

Wales come so close to opening the scoring in Cardiff! Gareth Bale storms down the inside-right channel, forcing a fine save from Karl Hein. The rebound flies his way, and he heads a second effort onto the post! So close. So frustrating for Wales.

Updated at 9.33pm BST

9.31pm BST21:31

GOAL! Greece 2-1 Sweden (Robin Quaison 80). The VAR officials took five minutes to decide whether Evangelos Pavlidis’s clearly onside goal for Greece should stand. When play finally restarted, Sweden wasted no time in halving the deficit, Emil Forsberg’s curler towards the bottom-right corner wonderfully parried by Odisseas Vlachodimos, only for Robin Quaison to slam the loose ball home.

9.27pm BST21:27

GOAL! Hungary 2-1 Andorra (Max Llovera 82). It’s not quite all over in Budapest!

Max Llovera scores for Andorra.

Updated at 9.35pm BST

9.26pm BST21:26

GOAL! Albania 5-0 San Marino (Myrto Uzuni 80). It’s now 24 and counting.

9.26pm BST21:26

GOAL! Greece 2-0 Sweden (Evangelos Pavlidis 74). Viktor Claesson, spinning on a sixpence in the Greek box, whips a shot towards the bottom-left corner ... only for the ball to carom off the base of the post and away to safety. And then the inevitable sucker punch, as Greece go down the other end and put some daylight between the teams. Sweden have been on top, but look at the score.

Updated at 9.45pm BST

9.23pm BST21:23

Not much going on in Cardiff, and not much going on in Belfast either. Ciaron Brown has seen his header from a corner blocked by Yann Sommer, and that’s the closest we’ve come to a goal for either of the home nations in a while.

9.20pm BST21:20

GOAL! Poland 0-1 England (Harry Kane 72). The captain opens the scoring, surprising Polish keeper Wojciech Szczęsny from distance. Our man Simon Burnton has the details.

Updated at 9.23pm BST

9.18pm BST21:18

Sweden had been bossing things before that Greek opener. But the goal was lovely, Anastasios Bakasetas bursting through a gap in the centre of the Swedish defence, opening his body, and sidefooting confidently into the bottom left. Compare and contrast to the antics of Timo Werner, whose confidence must be in ribbons right now. Lukas Klostermann burst down the right and rolled a ball across the face of goal for the Chelsea striker, who was free, a couple of yards out. He somehow managed to hoick over the bar, one of those when the old cliche of It Was Harder To Miss really was geometrically true.

9.13pm BST21:13

GOAL! Albania 4-0 San Marino (Elseid Hysaj 68). San Marino have now conceded 23 goals in five-and-three-quarter Group I matches.

9.12pm BST21:12

GOAL! Greece 1-0 Sweden (Anastasios Bakasetas 62). The young Utrecht striker scores his second goal in just his fourth appearance for his country, and Sweden’s perfect start to Group B is suddenly under severe threat.

9.08pm BST21:08

A poignant moment in Cardiff. The Welsh crowd rise as one to celebrate the life of the much-loved and much-missed Gary Speed, who would have been 52 today.

Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews)

There's Only One Gary Speed. ❤️

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