World Cup round-up: An early goal by Thierry Henry and a late Sylvain Wiltord penalty gave France a 2-0 win over Denmark in a World Cup warm-up match in one of a handful of World Cup warm-ups last night.
France offered a more convincing show than in a laboured 1-0 victory over Mexico on Saturday but looked nervous at times against opponents who failed to qualify for the finals in Germany.
Henry, rested against Mexico, raced into the box to collect a headed pass from fellow striker Louis Saha and beat Denmark goalkeeper Jesper Christiansen from close range on 12 minutes.
It was Henry's 32nd international goal in his 77th appearance, which makes the Arsenal forward the most prolific scorer in France's current squad ahead of David Trezeguet, who has scored 31.
Wiltord doubled the advantage on 76 minutes after fellow substitute Franck Ribery, who thrilled the Lens crowd on his second appearance for France, was brought down in the box.
The last time France had played Denmark, they lost 2-0 to make a shock group-stage exit from the 2002 World Cup.
Italy and Switzerland shared a scrappy 1-1 draw in a warm-up match.
Starting with playmaker Francesco Totti for the first time in over three months, Italy took a deserved lead in the 11th minute when Alberto Gilardino fired in from close range after a quickly-executed break down the left.
Switzerland seemed to wake up after that setback and were rewarded in the 32nd minute when midfielder Daniel Gygax sent a powerful shot past Gianluigi Buffon from the edge of the area.
England's first-round group rivals Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago experienced mixed fortunes in their World Cup warm-up friendlies.
The South Americans, who line up against England in Frankfurt on June 10th, beat Georgia 1-0 thanks to a Nelson Haedo Valdez goal in the 37th minute.
Trinidad and Tobago lost 3-1 to Slovenia, following on from a defeat to Wales in Austria last weekend. Milivoje Novakovic scored a hat-trick for the European side as Chris Birchall got T&T's only goal.
Iran came from 2-0 down to beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 5-2. Zvjezdan Misimovic and Sergej Barbarez gave the eastern European side the advantage but by half-time Iran were 3-2 up thanks to goals from Mehrzad Madanchi, Rahman Rezaei and Vahid Hashemian.
They opened up a two-goal cushion in the 88th minute through Gholamreza Enayati and Rasoul Khatibi added the fifth in the final minute of the match.
Iran's fellow Asian qualifiers Saudi Arabia were beaten 1-0 by Turkey.
