And that’s me done for the evening. Thanks for reading. Bye!
Full-time: Serbia 1-3 Denmark
Just another Friday night in the life of Nicklas Bendtner.
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Full-time: Romania 2-0 Northern Ireland
A spirited performance from Northern Ireland but they suffer their first defeat.
Full-time: Hungary 1-0 Finland
Zoltan Gera’s late winner proves to be the difference.
Full-time: Greece 0-1 Faroe Islands
A famous night for the Faroes, but a miserable one for Claudio Ranieri’s Greece.
Full-time: Portugal 1-0 Armenia
Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal gets Portugal back on track.
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Full-time: Germany 4-0 Gibraltar
Wait a minute. Who’s meant to be happier with this result?
B.A.N.T.E.R.
86' Darren Fletcher, mother from Achill, comes on as sub for @ScottishFA replacing Anya. #SCOIRL #COYBIG
— FAI (@FAIreland) November 14, 2014
GOAL! Serbia 1-3 Denmark (Bendtner)1
Nicklas Bendtner, for it is he, scores his second of the game and Denmark are on their way to three crucial points.
GOAL! Hungary 1-0 Finland (Gera)
Who doesn’t love Zoltan Gera?
“Would this be a first ever away win for the Faroes?” says John McGrother. “Up the...fishermen?”
I believe their last away win was in 2001.
“The minnows shouldn’t be allowed in international football?” says John Davis. “The Faroe Islands are beating the 2004 Euros winners (assuming your score is correct). There’s hope for Gibraltar yet.”
GOAL! Romania 2-0 Northern Ireland (Papp)
Papp does it again! He heads in at the far post and Northern Ireland are surely done.
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GOAL! Romania 1-0 Northern Ireland (Papp)
Rat’s deflected cross falls to Papp, who volleys high into the net from close range! Northern Ireland’s resistance is broken.
GOAL! Portugal 1-0 Armenia (Ronaldo)
Finally, someone in a Portugal shirt who can deal with the pressure of playing with Helder Postiga.
GOAL! Germany 4-0 Gibraltar (Yogen Santos own-goal)
I got your hopes up there, didn’t I?
Lafferty is down for Northern Ireland. But allow me to move elsewhere, because...
GOAL! Serbia 1-2 Denmark (Kjaer)
What a turnaround in Serbia!
GOAL! Serbia 1-1 Denmark (Bendtner)
Who else?
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A GOAL! Greece 0-1 Faroe Islands (Edmundsson)
Claudio Ranieri is doing a bang-up job for Greece.
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In fact, only four goals have been scored tonight and given that three of them were by Germany against Gibraltar, everyone involved needs to be ashamed of themselves.
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There have been no goals in any of the night’s second halves. What an enthralling night of soccer.
Carroll makes a fine save to deny Rat, who was clean through on goal. The Northern Ireland goalkeeper stayed big to stop the Romania left-back’s chip from going over him.
Will it be embarrassing for Germany if they only win 3-0?
We have football again. Let’s hope for more goals.
Half-time: Serbia 1-0 Denmark
Tosic’s goal is the difference.
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Half-time: Greece 0-0 Faroe Islands
It sounds like a classic.
Half-time: Portugal 0-0 Armenia
Helder Postiga.
Half-time: Germany 3-0 Gibraltar
Yes, really.
Half-time: Hungary 0-0 Finland
Deadlock.
Half-time: Romania 0-0 Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland have survived a few scares but they have gone close to taking the lead on a couple of occasions on the break.
Lafferty turns the hapless Chiriches, who was too tight, but instead of crossing to a team-mate in the middle, his shot is saved at the near post. Corner to Northern Ireland. It comes to nothing.
Pepe has just been booked. It was a ludicrous foul.
How is it possible that Helder Postiga is still up front for Portugal? It’s a national disgrace.
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GOAL! Germany 3-0 Gibraltar (Gotze)
No way!
A Romania goal, you feel, is on the way. Northern Ireland need half-time.
Northern Ireland are increasingly under the cosh. They need to get above the cosh. “Okay Jacob, I’ll humor you. If I had to guess, I would say that Barry is eating a meatball grinder, while your sandwich of choice is likely a Bahn Mi,” says Daniel Schulwolf. “As for me, I generally vacillate between the Bahn Mi and the classic Italian, although as a resident of Boston I feel obligated to put a good word in for the Lobstah Roll.”
That is not what Barry was eating.
Remember - if you want to talk to Barry about sandwiches, email him here.
Romania should lead. Sanmartean went on a brilliant run through the Northern Irish defence, embarrassing McAuley with a lovely nutmeg, but instead of shooting past Carroll, he decided to be elaborate and roll it across to Stancu, who was unable to bundle it in!
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Portugal don’t appear to be doing much against Armenia. Cristiano Ronaldo must hate his team-mates.
GOAL! Germany 2-0 Gibraltar (Muller)
I think Germany are going to win.
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“Aberystwyth are in the pool with Kazakhstan? or Moldova?” says Serge. Not the one from Kasabian. “I forgot...”
I think they’re in Qatar’s group.
Germany are still only winning 1-0. Useless.
GOAL! The New Saints FC 1 (Greg Draper 17) Aberystwyth 0.
Is anybody out there? Oh.
Nicklas Bendtner slashes wide for Denmark. This is not necessarily news.
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Tanasae volleys against the Northern Ireland bar! The rebound comes to Chipciu and he heads straight at Carroll.
Northern Ireland spring forward on the counter-attack and when Lafferty plays Brunt in, his shot from the left goes inches past the far post!
Germany are raining shots on the Gibraltar goal. Meanwhile Chiriches goes close for Romania but his overhead kick is straight at Carrolll.
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GOAL! Serbia 1-0 Denmark (Tosic)
The crowd goes wild!
GOAL! Germany 1-0 Gibraltar (Muller, 12 min)
The dream dies. Thomas Muller volleys home after a blunder by the Gibraltar goalkeeper, who failed to deal with a cross from Mustafi. He let it bounce against his near post and it came to Muller, who wasn’t about to miss from eight yards out.
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Northern Ireland are looking mostly comfortable so far. Carroll hasn’t had much to do, although Romania have seen most of the ball.
Ireland had already scored by now against Gibraltar. Maybe Germany really are finished.
Roy Carroll is rubbing his head after being caught by a stray arm from Chipciu. The Northern Ireland goalkeeper isn’t happy but he doesn’t need any treatment, though.
I don’t think Gibraltar have been in the Germany half yet. But it’s still 0-0! The shock is on the cards!
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Serbia, of course, are playing in an empty stadium against Denmark. How is that going to affect them? It certainly won’t be as intimidating for the Danes.
Germany still aren’t winning. What a load of rubbish. Two minutes in and Sami Khedira has even been tackled by a Gibraltar player.
They’re playing football! Germany aren’t winning yet.
Teams are walking on to pitches. They’ll be playing football soon!
To my left, Barry Glendenning is eating a sandwich. Why don’t you email him here with guesses about what sandwich he is eating?
Serbia: Stojkovic, Ivanovic, Bisevac, Stefan Mitrovic, Dusko Tosic, Zoran Tosic, Gudelj, Matic, Tadic, Djuricic, Lazovic. Subs: Rajkovic, Rukavina, Djordjevic, Petrovic, Tomovic, Jojic, Maksimovic, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Markovic, Kuzmanovic, Brkic.
Denmark: Schmeichel, Ankersen, Kjaer, Bjelland, Boilesen, Vibe, Kahlenberg, Kvist Jorgensen, Eriksen, Krohn-Delhi, Bendtner. Subs: Andersen, Vestergaard, Jacobsen, Wurtz, Hansen, Thomsen, Simon Poulsen, Rasmussen, Yussuf Poulsen, Bech, Hojbjerg, Lossl.
Referee: Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey)
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Hungary: Kiraly, Lang, Kadar, Fiola, Juhasz, Elek, Tozser, Dzsudzsak, Krisztian Simon, Gera, Szalai. Subs: Bogdan, Poor, Jozsef Varga, Forro, Lovrencsics, Kalmar, Adam Simon, Nikolic, Stieber, Priskin, Kovacs, Dibusz.
Finland: Hradecky, Niklas Moisander, Uronen, Hurme, Toivio, Eremenko, Hetemaj, Sparv, Halsti, Hamalainen, Pukki. Subs: Maenpaa, Ojala, Markkanen, Riski, Tainio, Kauko, Pohjanpalo, Henrick Moisander.
Referee: Clement Turpin (France)
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Portugal: Rui Patricio, Bosingwa, Pepe, Carvalho, Guerreiro, Nani, Joao Moutinho, Tiago, Ronaldo, Postiga, Danny. Subs: Lopes, Bruno Alves, Fonte, Eder, Vieirinha, William Carvalho, Andre Gomes, Joao Mario, Tiago Gomes, Quaresma, Cedric Soares, Beto.
Armenia: Berezovsky, Hovhannisyan, Haroyan, Arzumanyan, Taron Voskanyan, Hayrapetyan, Mkrtchyan, Mkhitaryan, Yedigaryan, Ghazaryan, Movsisyan. Subs: Kasparov, Masis Voskanyan, Pizzelli, Hovsepyan, Sarkisov, Mkoyan, Aslanyan-Mamedov, Hambardzumyan, Karapetyan, Manucharyan, Simonyan, Beglaryan.
Referee: Tasos Sidiropoulos (Greece)
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Germany: Neuer, Durm, Boateng, Mustafi, Kroos, Gotze, Khedira, Podolski, Kruse, Muller, Bellarabi. Subs: Zieler, Ginter, Howedes, Bender, Rudy, Volland, Hector, Rudiger, Weidenfeller.
Gibraltar: Robba, Garcia, Artell, Wiseman, Ryan Casciaro, Joseph Chipolina, Brian Perez, Roy Chipolina, Sergeant, Walker, Lee Casciaro. Subs: Neale, Jordan Perez, Santos, Guilling, Bado, Gosling, Lopez, Bardon, Payas, Hernandez, Kyle Casciaro, Priestley.
Referee: Alexandru Dan Tudor (Romania)
Romania: Tatarusanu, Papp, Chiriches, Grigore, Rat, Pintilii, Sanmartean, Torje, Chipciu, Tanase, Stancu. Subs: Pantilimon, Luchin, Hoban, Puscas, Bicfalvi, Moti, Gardos, Prepelita, Lung Jr, Keseru, Sepsi.
Northern Ireland: Carroll, Conor McLaughlin, Conor McLaughlin, McGivern, McAuley, Baird, Hughes, Brunt, Evans, Norwood,McGinn, Lafferty. Subs: Mannus, McCullough, Clingan, McKay, Lund, McCourt, McNair, Grigg, Magennis, Reeves, McGovern.
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)
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Greece: Karnezis, Torosidis, Manolas, Moras, Karabelas, Maniatis, Samaris, Karelis, Kone, Christodoulopoulos, Gekas. Subs: Glykos, Tziolis, Kolovos, Mantalos, Vyntra, Dinas, Mavrias, Bakakis, Tasoulis, Papadopoulos, Athanasiadis, Kapino.
Faroe Islands: Nielsen, Naes, Gregersen, Nattestad, Davidsen, Vatnhamar, Brandur Olsen, Benjaminsen, Hansson, Holst, Edmundsson. Subs: Gestsson, Sorensen, Justinussen, Jacobsen, Klaemint Olsen, Hansen, Faero, Bartalstovu, Jakobsen, Thomsen.
Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
Poland have won 4-0 in Georgia. They’re top of Group D on ten points, although they have played a game more than Ireland, Scotland and Germany.
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Good evening. And welcome to live coverage of how many goals are Germany going to score against Gibraltar? Five? Six? Seven? Eight? Nine? Ten? Eleven? Twelve? Thirteen? Fourteen? Fifteen? Sixteen? Eighteen? Nineteen? Twenty? I could go on. You get the picture. Gibraltar aren’t very good. They’re playing the world champions. A team packed with players who - get this - have other jobs are going to play the world champions. I know.
But wait! Germany drew with the Republic of Ireland in their last match! It’s all over! They’re officially rubbish! Could this be the evening when Gibraltar finally break their duck and win a game of international football? Scroll down for the answer!
The answer is ... no.
Still, Germany, languishing in fifth place in Group D, are in crisis. They will only drag themselves out of crisis if they can beat Gibraltar. Then everything will be better again and everyone in England can get back to saying we will win the World Cup in 2030 if we can just do what the Germans did and be better at football.
Anyway it’s not all about Gibraltar tonight, because Northern Ireland are in action against Romania in Group F and would you believe that it’s a top of the table encounter? Northern Ireland are top after three wins in three and Romania are two points behind. Can Northern Ireland keep their incredible run going over in Bucharest? Elsewhere in that group, troubled Greece host the Faroe Islands and Hungary take on Finland.
And that’s not all! We’ve also got Portugal v Armenia and Serbia v Denmark in Group I!
That’s all! (That probably didn’t require such a big build-up.)
The action commences at: 7.45pm.
