Cup qualifiers scorecard

(Note: Africa’s last qualifying place will be decided later with Tunisia needing one point to end top of Group Five while Morocco must win the game at Rades).

Not in contention

AFRICA: Cameroon, Senagal, Congo, Sudan, Cape Verde Islands and Rwanda joined Nigeria, who despite winning 5-1 against Zimbabwe were edged out by Anglo because of better head to head record. Both finished on 21 points.

Beckham, famously red-carded at the 1998 World Cup against Argentina, became the first England player to be sent off twice with a second yellow at Old Trafford after what looked like a dive by Andreas Ibertsberger following a booking for elbowing the same Austrian midfielder minutes earlier.

Fate in balance

• Ten-man England ground out a precious 1-0 win over Austria despite a red card for captain David Beckham.

• Scotland go down 0-1 to Belarus to all but end their flickering hopes

• Romania’s alive and kicking with captain Adrian Mutu’s first-half winner against Finland

• Russia crushed Luxembourg 5-1 to hold hopes of reaching the finals