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Ched Evans caught the eye after coming on as a second-half substitute for Wales, and he bagged his third international goal to seal a hard-fought 2-0 win over Liechtenstein. The striker's headed effort bore a striking resemblance to his equaliser for City against FC Midtjylland, taking a big deflection off a defender to wrong-foot the keeper.
Fabio Capello pepped up a lacklustre England by bringing on Shaun Wright-Philips at the start of the second half, and the change seemed to do the trick with England eventually seeing off Kazakhstan 5-1.
Tal Ben-Haim was shown the yellow card but otherwise the defender had a reasonable night in Luxembourg with Israel recording a 3-1 win. In the same 2010 qualifying group, Switzerland beat Latvia 2-1 with Gelson Fernandes a late substitute.
Martin Petrov completed his first 90 minutes since City's penalty shoot-out in Denmark in late August in Bulgaria's goalless draw with world champions Italy in Sofia.
Vincent Kompany played the entire game as Belgium beat Armenia 2-0, while young full-back Ryan McGivern came on for the last 17 minutes of Northern Ireland's 2-0 defeat away to Slovenia.
At Under 21 level, Kasper Schmeichel and Denmark's hopes of making the Euro 2009 finals are in the balance after a 1-0 defeat in the first leg at home to Serbia on Saturday. England take a 3-2 lead over into Tuesday's second leg at Villa Park, with Joe Hart set to line up once again for his former City boss Stuart Pearce.
City's trio of Brazilian internationals - Elano, Jo and Robinho - could all feature in tonight's World Cup qualifier against Venezuela, and Felipe Caicedo is in Ecuador's squad for their game against Chile. Pablo Zabaleta was not in the 18 for Argentina's 2-1 win over Uruguay in Buenos Aires on Saturday night.
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