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Elano, Jo and Robinho all started against Colombia in Rio but to the home fans’ disgust Brazil were held to a goalless draw, and to make matters worse Robinho was stretchered off with a thigh strain in the second half. Elsewhere on the South American continent, Felipe Caicedo played in Ecuador’s 3-1 defeat to Venezuela, while Pablo Zabaleta did not make the bench for Argentina’s 1-0 loss to Chile.
Injury also struck Martin Petrov, the winger limping out of Bulgaria’s 0-0 with Georgia in Tbilisi at half time. Gelson Fernandes made a substitute appearance in Switzerland’s fine 2-1 win in Athens, while in the same 2010 qualifying group, Tal Ben Haim featured for all of Israel’s 1-1 with Latvia in Riga.
Shaun Wright-Phillips was a second half substitute in England’s 3-1 win over Belarus in Minsk.
Vincent Kompany and Belgium slumped to a late defeat to Spain in Brussels, Ched Evans could not make an impact in the 13 minutes of Wales’ defeat to Germany while young Ryan McGivern played the last 26 minutes of Northern Ireland’s 4-0 win over San Marino – and picked up a yellow card in the process.
Tuesday night saw Joe Hart and the England Under 21 side qualify for next summer’s European Championships, but Kasper Schmeichel won’t be there after Denmark were knocked out 2-0 on aggregate by Serbia. The City keeper had kept his country in the tie with some fine saves in the first half, but he blotted his copybook when he was sent off for professional foul outside the area three minutes before half time.
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