World Cup 2014 qualifiers: Tuesday night's games - in pictures

Poland v England Postponed Despite there being forecasts of heavy rain, the roof at the National Stadium in Warsaw stayed open Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images

Which meant when the predicted downpours came, the pitch ended up getting rather wet Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

With a decision on whether the game would go ahead being delayed and delayed, a Polish fan decided to liven up proceedings by making the most of the wet conditions. Fifa eventually postponed the game until 4pm BST on Wednesday Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Belgium 2-0 Scotland Two goals in two minutes midway through the second half gave Belgium a deserved victory as Christian Benteke, seen here smacking a header against the bar, and Vincent Kompany finally beat an inspired Allan McGregor as the hosts maintained their unbeaten start Photograph: Laurent Dubrule/Reuters

Croatia 2-0 Wales After Friday night's victory against Scotland, Wales couldn't find a way through an organised and skillful Croatian side. Goals in either half from Mario Mandžukić and Eduardo gave the home side a comfortable victory Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

Portugal 1-1 Northern Ireland Hélder Postiga provided relief for Portugal after sweeping home a 79th-minute equaliser to deny Northern Ireland an implausible victory. The visitors went ahead on the half hour mark when Niall McGinn, above, clipped the ball over Rui Patrício and into the net. Portugal piled on the pressure until they got the equaliser 11 minutes from the end. They could have won it with efforts from range late on but that would have been hard on Northern Island who were good value for the draw Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Faroe Islands 1-4 Republic of Ireland Giovanni Trapattoni's side rebounded from last Friday's record 6-1 home defeat by Germany by claiming a morale-boosting 4-1 win over the Faroe Islands to get their Fifa World Cup qualification bid back on track. The goals came from Marc Wilson, Jonathan Walters (whose goal Robbie Keane is celebrating above), Darren O'Dea and an own goal by Pól Jóhannus Justinussen Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

Germany 4-4 Sweden Four down with 28 minutes to go, Sweden produced a sensational comeback thanks to Zlatan Ibrahimović, Mikael Lustig, Johan Elmander and Rasmus Elm. Here's Lustig lashing the visitor's second goal home between Germany's keeper Manuel Neuer and the near post Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

Romania 1-4 Netherlands The visitors controlled proceedings in Bucharest's National Arena as Jeremain Lens and Bruno Martins Indi put them two goals up within half an hour. Romania's striker Ciprian Andrei Marica, seen above tussling with Nigel De Jong, pulled one back just before half-time. The comeback was short-lived as Rafael van der Vaart scored from the spot a couple of minutes later before Robin van Persie completed a resounding victory four minutes from time Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA

Czech Republic 0-0 Bulgaria A flurry of chances fell the home side's way late on, but a goalless draw was reward for a decent defensive display from the visitors as displayed above as Bulgaria's goalkeeper Nikolay Mihaylov claims a high ball Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP

Spain 1-1 France France's defender Laurent Koscielny goes in hard on Spain's Sergio Ramos and Jordi Alba. Ramos put La Roja ahead in the first half and Spain could have doubled their lead with Cesc Fábregas's 42nd-minute penalty but it was saved by Hugo Lloris. The visitors rallied in the second half and in the dying seconds substitute Olivier Giroud's header gave France a share of the spoils and ended Vicente del Bosque's run of 20 successive qualification victories Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images

Cyprus 1-3 Norway Late strikes from Tarik Elyounoussi and Joshua King helped Egil Olsen's team to a hard-earned victory in Larnaca. The tightly fought game is illustrated above by Cyprus's Marios Nikolaou vieing for the ball with Ruben Yttergard Jenssen of Norway Photograph: Katia Christodoulou/EPA

Italy 3-1 Denmark The Azzuri hold a four-point advantage at the top of Group B after this win. Riccardo Montolivo and Daniele De Rossi scored with five minutes of each other in the first half to put the home side in the driving seat until Kvist pulled one back just before half-time. Italy's victory was assured during the second half when Pirlo's perfect long pass found Balotelli behind the Denmark defence and the striker, on the stretch, sent a first-time volley over the onrushing Andersen Photograph: Dino Panato/Getty Images

Austria 4-0 Kazakhstan A brace from Marc Janko as well as goals from David Alaba, seen here evading the challenge of Azat Nurgaliyev, and Martin Harnik gave the home side their first victory of the campaign Photograph: Robert Jaeger/EPA

Ukraine 0-1 Montenegro Dejan Damjanovic gets a smacker for scoring Montenegro's winner just before the break Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Iceland 0-2 Switzerland Switzerland's undefeated start to their Group E campaign continued in Reykjavik as second-half goals from Tranquillo Barnetta and Mario Gavranović saw them past Iceland. The Swiss were not without their own threat yet were wayward with a number of efforts, Johan Djourou, above, and Gökhan Inler both guilty of failing to test Hannes Halldórsson from good positions Photograph: Georgios Kefalas/EPA

Israel 3-0 Luxembourg Israel carried on where they left off after Friday's 6-0 win over Luxembourg with another comfortable victory over Luc Holtz's side which leaves them languishing at the bottom of the group. Above is Laurent Jans, left, fighting for the ball with Israel's Eden Ben Basat Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Belarus 2-0 Georgia First-half goals from Renan Bressan and Stanislav Dragun ensured Belarus avenged their away defeat by Georgia in September and helped them put Friday's 4-0 defeat to Spain behind them. The home side could created further chances in the second-half such as this effort where Vitali Rodionov is denied by Nukri Revishvili but they were not made to rue the missed opportunities and earned their first win of the campaign Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

Andorra 0-1 Estonia Andres Oper notched his 38th goal to become Estonia's all-time top scorer and end Estonia's barren spell and get their first victory of the campaign Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters

Hungary 3-1 Turkey Mevlüt Erdinç gave Turkey the lead after 22 minutes but Vladimir Koman equalised nine minutes later before second-half goals from Ádám Szalai and Zoltán Gera powered Hungary to a 3-1 victory. Hungary's win raises their hopes of a first World Cup qualification since 1986. Above is Vilmos Vanczak, right, of Hungary holding off the challenge of Turkey's Umut Bulut Photograph: Laszlo Beliczay/EPA

Slovakia 0-1 Greece Against the run of play Dimitris Salpindigis struck with 27 minutes to go to give Greece a vital win and put them equal top of Group G with Bosnia-Herzegovina Photograph: Peter Hudec/EPA

Latvia 2-0 Liechtenstein With both teams eager to get off the mark after suffering three consecutive defeats it is no surprise the opening exchanges were fraught with anxiety, here Martin Stocklasa of Liechtenstein vies with Artjomd Rudnevs. Goals in either half from Vladimirs Kamešs and substitute Edgars Gauračs sunk Liechtenstein and earned Lativa their first victory of the campaign Photograph: Ilmars Znotins/AFP/Getty Images

Macedonia 1-0 Serbia Macedonia picked up a first win of their Group A campaign, as Agim Ibraimi's second-half penalty sunk 10-man Serbia. Here Serbia's Miralem Suljejmani is tackled by Daniel Georgievski of Macedonia Photograph: Valdrin Xhemaj/EPA

Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-0 Lithuania Goals from Vedad Ibišević, Edin Džeko and Miralem Pjanić in the space of 13 first-half minutes gave the home side plenty to cheer about and the victory keeps the home side top of their group Photograph: Amel Emric/AP

Russian 1-0 Azerbaijan Russia dominated proceedings in Moscow and Azerbaijan attempted to stem the relentless surges towards them by harrying, hectoring and fouling their opponents. An example is here where Russia's Vladimir Bystrov is brought down by Azerbaijan's Maksim Medvedev. The game was decided by Roman Shirokov's penalty six minutes from time which earned Russia a fourth consecutive victory Photograph: Misha Japaridze/AP

Albania 1-0 Slovenia This smart header from Odise Roshi gave the home side three points in Tirana Photograph: Hektor Pustina/AP