[football] Germany, France Win World Cup Qualifiers

Germany and France posted wins in their respective world cup qualifying campaigns. Germany won in Azerbaijan 2-0 while France got a narrow 1-0 win in Faroe Islands. Schwansteiger put Germany forward at the 12th minue while Klose increased thier lead in the 54th minute. France got their winner from Gignac.

Germany are in top of their group with 2 matches remaining and unless something extraordinary happens will qualify from their group. However even after this win France will remain two points behind group topper Serbia.

In other matches, Norway defeated Scotland 4-0. Cladwel of Scotland saw two red cards at 32nd and 33rd minutes to get suspended from the rest of the match. Riise and Huseklepp scored a goal each for Norway while Pederson scored a brace. Norway still remain at the 4th position in the group behind Netherland, Scotland and Macedonia.

Croatia won in Belarus 3-1 thanks to a brace by Olic and a goal by Eduardo.

Slovenia thrashed San Marino 5-0 with a brace from Koren and Radosavljevic, Kirm and Ljubijankic scoring a goal each.

results:

Azerbaijan 0-2 Germany

Faroe Island 0-1 France

Norway 4-0 Scotland

Belarus 1-3 Croatia

Slovenia 5-0 San Marino