"I'm happy to have scored," Nasri said. "But it's the whole team which
succeeded tonight."
It was also a night for first goals in Kaunas as Sampdoria forward Fabio Quagliarella scored twice, his first goals for Italy,as the World Champions downed Lithuania 2-0.
Italy are second in Group B with 16 points, two points behind France.
Israel on track
Group E action saw Israel defeat Andorra 2-0 to remain in the qualifying zone.
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Filippo Inzaghi gets stopped by Lithuania keeper
Paulius Grybauskas but teammate Fabio Quagliarella
scored twice in Italy's 2-0 win [AFP] |
Roberto Colautti scored one goal and set up the another.
Toto Tamuz headed in Colautti's flick from the left side in the 38th minute under heavy rain to give the visitors the lead. Colautti dived to meet
Barak Itzhaki's chip from the right side in the 53rd.
England keep their hopes alive as a David Beckham inspired side won 3-0 in Estonia.
Joe Cole gave England a 37th-minute lead with a spin and volley from the edge of the area before the recalled Beckham, set up second-half goals for Peter Crouch and Michael Owen with crosses from the right.
Owen's goal was his first for England since returning from 10 months out
with ruptured knee ligaments.
In the group's other crunch tie Russia and Croatia drew 0-0.
Villa on the double
Sweden and Spain moved to the top of Group F with comfortable victories.
David Villa scored twice, including a spectacular bicycle kick, to lead Spain over Liechtenstein 2-0.
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Georgia's Kakha Kaladze sends France's Djibrill
Cisse flying but the French still win 1-0 [AFP] |
Villa scored with an overhead volley in the 14th minute on Valencia teammate David Silva's cross from the left to beat goalkeeper Peter Jehle.
It was his 12th goal in 23 international games.
Villa had scored first for Spain in the eighth minute, running on to a through ball from Joaquin Sanchez before rounding Jehle and slotting home.
He missed out on a hat trick when his injury-time penalty struck the
crossbar.
Spain has 15 points in Group F after seven games.
Sweden smash five
While Sweden smashed Nordic rival Iceland 5-0.
Marcus Allback scored the first and the last goal Wednesday, helping Sweden beat Iceland 5-0 in a European Championship qualifying match.
Allback scored off a half-volley 10 minutes into the game to give Sweden
the lead. Anders Svensson added another with a low shot near the post in the 40th minute after Christian Wilhelmsson's corner kick.
Nicolas Alexandersson, playing his 100th game for Sweden, set up Olof
Mellberg with a cross from the right and the veteran defender one-timed his shot into the goal off the post in the 44th.
Markus Rosenberg broke away all alone to make it 4-0 in the 49th, and
Allback ended scoring two minutes later.
Sweden, hoping to qualify for its fifth straight major championship, has
15 points in Group F. Iceland has only four points.