Round-up: Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt could be sidelined with a lengthy injury after being forced off in The Netherlands' 1-1 Group G draw with Bulgaria in Sofia.
The summer signing from Feyenoord limped off after 16 minutes, and head coach Marco van Basten is not optimistic of him being fit for Wednesday's match with Albania.
"Dirk has complaints about his ankle," said van Basten. "His leg gave way underneath him. It doesn't look good."
Liverpool will be more concerned that he may miss Saturday's Premiership home clash with Blackburn.
Robin van Persie struck for the visitors to cancel out Martin Petrov's first-half goal and keep his side in contention at the summit of Group G.
Romania took advantage of The Netherlands' draw in Bulgaria to move to the top of the group with a hard-fought 3-1 win over Belarus.
At the foot of the table, Slovenia struck twice in the first half to sink Luxembourg 2-0 and claim their first points of the qualifying campaign.
World champions Italy recorded their first win of the competition on Saturday with a 2-0 win over Ukraine in Rome, both goals coming in the last 19 minutes.
Massimo Oddo put Italy ahead with a 71st-minute penalty and Luca Toni wrapped up the points with a superb volley eight minutes later.
Scotland lead the group but Lithuania are third after a 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands.
Spain, meanwhile, slumped to their second straight defeat in Group F, going down 2-0 to Sweden in Stockholm where Marcus Allback scored his 27th goal for his country. Johan Elmander put the Swedes in front after 10 minutes.
In the same group, a Maris Verpakovskis double earned Latvia a convincing 4-0 victory over Iceland.
European champions Greece also won, following up their 1-0 Group C win over Moldova in their opening match with a 1-0 victory over Norway in Athens. Costas Katsouranis scored the only goal in a match delayed for 50 minutes following a downpour before kick-off.
Turkey recorded their first-ever win in Hungary to move joint top of Group C with Norway. Tuncay Sanli scored the only goal of the game, towards the end of the first half, to ensure Fatih Terim's team claimed their second win from two games in this campaign and ended a Budapest hoodoo spanning five games over 44 years.
Moldova claimed their first point of the campaign but they will not be happy after Bosnia-Herzegovina came from two down in a lively game to draw 2-2.
Croatia slammed in seven without reply in their Group E match against Andorra.
It was the perfect warm-up for Croatia who meet England on Wednesday and Mladen Petric proved himself the man in form with four of the seven.
Israel grabbed a late draw in Russia to stay level with England in Group E. Russia were left to rue missed chances in Moscow after a late goal by substitute Amit Ben Shushan rescued a point for Israel.
A fifth-minute strike by Andrei Arshavin had looked enough for the hosts after he had picked up a pass from Pavel Pogrebniak and held off defender Shimon Gershon to provide a composed left-footed finish past Dudu Awat from eight yards.
But Israel hit back seven minutes from time after a mistake by defender Vasili Berezutsky allowed Israel substitute Toto Tamuz to run in on goal. His shot was parried by Igor Akinfeev, but the rebound fell kindly to Ben Shushan, who steered the ball into the empty net.
Finland could only manage a disappointing goalless draw with Group A whipping boys Armenia as they slipped from top spot. Serbia are the new pace-setters, having toppled Belgium 1-0 at home to move to seven points, two clear of the Finns.
Portugal climbed to third with a convincing 3-0 win at home to Azerbaijan, while Poland occupy fifth courtesy of a 1-0 win in Kazakhstan.
