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Robert Lewandowski helped Poland travel from down to scrape past Albania 2-1 aft Arber Hoxha gave nan visitors nan lead successful Warsaw. Poland will now look Sweden, who defeated Ukraine, successful Stockholm for 1 of 4 remaining European places astatine nan World Cup.
Lewandowski headed successful from a second-half area to bring Poland level pinch his 89th extremity for his state earlier Piotr Zielinski grabbed nan victor 10 minutes later.
Denmark eased to a 4-0 triumph complete North Macedonia successful Copenhagen pinch each nan goals coming successful nan 2nd half. Denmark will now return connected Czech Republic, who edged past nan Republic of Ireland connected penalties, successful Prague successful their playoff final.
Mikkel Damsgaard collapsed nan deadlock for Denmark conscionable aft half-time and Gustav Isaksen scored doubly successful arsenic galore minutes, earlier Christian Nørgaard added a fourth.
Kosovo are connected nan brink of a first quality astatine immoderate awesome tourney pursuing a chaotic 4-3 triumph successful Slovakia. The hosts doubly led successful Bratislava done goals from Martin Valjent and Lukas Haraslin, but Kosovo fought backmost pinch efforts from Veldin Hodza and Fisnik Asllani.
Kosovo, who were only admitted to Uefa and Fifa competitions a decade ago, past went successful beforehand courtesy of Florent Muslija and sewage different extremity from Kreshnik Hajrizi. David Strelec’s stoppage-time onslaught wasn’t capable to contradict Kosovo, who will big Turkey for nan correct to spell to nan World Cup.
Turkey moved wrong 1 crippled of ending their agelong World Cup absence aft Ferdi Kadioglu’s second-half extremity secured a 1-0 triumph complete Romania successful their playoff semi-final pursuing a infinitesimal of brilliance from Arda Guler.
In a high-stakes brushwood astatine Besiktas Stadium, nan deadlock was surgery successful nan 53rd infinitesimal erstwhile nan Real Madrid midfielder Guler produced a superb defence-splitting walk to prime retired Kadioglu, who controlled and vanished calmly to springiness nan hosts nan lead.
That proved decisive successful a tight title betwixt 2 sides seeking a return to nan World Cup for nan first clip since 2002. Turkey grew successful assurance aft going up and came adjacent to doubling their advantage soon afterwards, pinch Juventus’s Kenan Yildiz cutting successful from nan near and striking nan crossbar pinch a good curling effort.
Romania, who had kept nan hosts astatine bay successful a cautious first half, pushed guardant successful hunt of an equaliser but were incapable to break done arsenic Turkey held patient to spot retired nan victory.
