Denmark beat Armenia 1-0 in World Cup qualifying 2018

Christian Eriksen gave Denmark a winning start to their Group E campaign with the lone goal in a 1-0 defeat of Armenia.

The Tottenham midfielder finished a superb move when he ran onto Viktor Fischer’s backheel and arrowed a low shot across goalkeeper Arsen Beglaryan after 17 minutes, though the Tottenham midfielder failed to convert a penalty in the second half when Armenia ‘keeper Arsen Beglaryan saved his spot kick.

Armenia were without skipper Henrikh Mkhitaryan after he suffered an injury in the midweek friendly defeat to the Czech Republic. Ends

POLAND 2-2 KAZAKHSTAN:

Poland were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw after surrendering a two-goal lead to Kazakhstan in Group E.

A goal from Bartosz Kapustka and a Robert Lewandowski penalty had the visitors comfortably in front within the first 35 minutes.

However a seven-minute Sergei Khizhnichenko brace pegged Poland back and secured a valuable point for the home side.

ROMANIA 1-1 MONTENEGRO:

Nicolae Stanciu missed the chance to win the late Group E game for Romania, firing a penalty over in the seventh minute of injury time in Bucharest.

Romania substitute Adrian Popa thought he’d scored the winner when he made the breakthrough with just five minutes remaining, but Stevan Jovetic replied by crashing an equalizer in off the crossbar.

MALTA 1-5 SCOTLAND:

Robert Snodgrass scored a hat trick as Scotland thrashed nine-man Malta 5-1.

The Hull City winger opened the scoring with a goal in the ninth minute only to see Alfred Effiong equalise just four minutes later.

Two Malta players — Jonathan Caruana and Luke Gambin — were also sent off in the second half for fouling Snodgrass.

Chris Martin gave Scotland the lead eight minutes after the break. Snodgrass then scored his second in the 61st minute, followed by a Steven Fletcher strike on 78 minutes and Snodgrass’ third — this time from the penalty spot — six minutes from time.

LITHUANIA 2-2 SLOVENIA:

Fedor Chernykh and Vykintas Slivka scored within two minutes of each other, but it wasn’t enough as Lithuania held to a 2-2 draw against Slovenia.

Rene Krhin pulled a goal back for Slovenia in the 77th minute, and Bostjan Cesar completed the comeback in second-half stoppage time.