Republic of Ireland v Luxembourg, Serbia v Portugal: World Cup qualifying – live!

Full time: Croatia 1-0 Cyprus Mario Pasalic’s 40th-minute goal settled matters in Rijeka.

Full time: Norway 0-3 Turkey A sensational result for Turkey, who have now tonked their two main rivals in group G.

Full time: Belarus 4-2 Estonia A fine win for Belarus, who came from behind twice and then ran away with the game in the last 10 minutes.

Full time: Netherlands 2-0 Latvia Peep peep! A comfortable and much-needed win for the Netherlands. Steven Berghuis scored a beauty in the first half; Luuk de Jong applied his noggin for the second.

Croatia 1-0 Cyprus Croatia, the runners up in 2018, still lead through Mario Pasalic’s first-half goal. But they haven’t made the best start to the qualification campaign: they lost in Slovenia on Wednesday and are now labouring to victory against Cyprus.

GOAL! Belarus 4-2 Estonia (Lisakovich 83) Vitali Lisakovich gets his second!

GOAL! Belarus 3-2 Estonia (Savitski 81) Pavel Savitski has put Belarus ahead for the first time in the game!

Norway 0-3 Turkey It gets worse for Norway: the substitute Kristian Thorstvedt has been given a straight red card for a studs-up tackle.

The teenage goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu makes his senior debut.

Republic of Ireland (3-5-2) Bazunu; Coleman, O’Shea, Clark; Doherty, Cullen, Knight, Browne, Stevens; Collins, Robinson.

Luxembourg (3-4-1-2) Moris; Jans, Chanot, Mahmutovic; O Thill, C Martins, Barreiro, M Martins; V Thill; Rodrigues, Sinani.

Czech Republic (4-1-4-1) Vaclik; Coufal, Celustka, Kudela, Boril; Holes; Provod, Soucek, Barak, Jankto; Krmencik.

Belgium (3-4-2-1) Courtois; Alderweireld, Denayer, Vertonghen; Castagne, Tielemans,, Dendoncker, Chadli; De Bruyne, Mertens; Lukaku.

The Netherlands have missed umpteen chances but they should be safe now. Luuk de Jong has scored the second with a thumping near-post header from a corner.

Serbia (3-4-1-2) Dmitrovic; Milenkovic, S Mitrovic, Pavlovic; Lazovic, Milinkovic-Savic, Gudelj, Kostic; Tadic; Vlahovic, A Mitrovic.

Portugal (4-3-3) Lopes; Joao Cancelo, Ruben Dias, Fonte, Cedric; Bruno Fernandes, Sergio Oliveira, Danilo; B Silva, Ronaldo, Jota.

It gets better for Turkey! Ozan Tufan has scored his second of the game to put them 3-0 up in Malaga.

Norway 0-2 Turkey The Turks have continued their spectacular start to the qualification campaign. They beat the Netherlands 4-2 on Wednesday, and now they lead 2-0 against Norway thanks to goals from Ozan Tufan and Leicester’s Caglar Soyuncu.

Netherlands 1-0 Latvia The home side lead through a cracking goal from Steven Berghuis in the 32nd minute.

<Big Brother bloke> Day three, and the battle for places at Qatar 2022 is hottin’ up</Big Brother bloke>. Okay, that’s a big fat lie. It’s not even lukewarm yet, but some of today’s matches could look extremely significant when the qualification groups are completed in November. Serbia v Portugal is likely to have a bearing on who wins Group A; in the same group, Republic of Ireland desperately need to beat Luxembourg and end their 18-month winless run.

Those games kick off at 7.45pm, as does the intriguing match between the Czech Republic and Belgium in Group E. But there are some important games going on as we speak, so let’s proceed directly to a list of the latest scores:

Group A

• Serbia v Portugal (7.45pm)
• Republic of Ireland v Luxembourg (7.45pm)

Group E

• Belarus 1-2 Estonia (5pm)
• Czech Republic v Belgium (7.45pm)

Group G

• Montenegro 4-1 Gibraltar (FT)
• Netherlands 1-0 Latvia (5pm)
• Norway 0-2 Turkey (5pm)

Group H

• Russia 2-1 Slovenia (FT)
• Croatia 1-0 Cyprus (5pm)
• Slovakia v Malta (7.45pm)