Italy grabbed a 2-1 win over world and European champions Spain in Bari.
Italy beat Spain; Germany too good for Brazil
Italy grabbed a 2-1 win over world and European champions Spain in Bari.
The Spanish had not lost in 2011, but they fell to the Azzurri at the San Nicola.
Riccardo Montolivo opened the scoring after just 11 minutes, but Spain levelled through Xabi Alonso's penalty before the break.
The winner came just six minutes from time as Liverpool's Alberto Aquilani scored.
A brilliant match in Stuttgart saw
Germany edge to a 3-2 win over
Brazil.
After a goalless first-half Bastian Schweinsteiger's penalty put the hosts ahead on the hour before Mario Gotze doubled their advantage not long after.
A Robinho spot-kick reduced the arrears but Andre Schurrle restored Germany's two-goal advantage before wonderkid Neymar added a late second for Brazil with a strike in injury time.
Ivory Coast defeated
Israel 4-3 in a seven-goal thriller in Switzerland.
The Africans race into a three-goal lead with Yaya Toure, Didier Konan Ya and Moussa Kone scoring.
Israel bounced back with Itay Shechter and Maor Melikson scoring. Didier Drogba added a fourth for Ivory Coast which was enough to secure the win as Melikson scored a late penalty for Israel.
Russia claimed a 1-0 win over
Serbia in Moscow.
The only goal of the game arrived just minutes into the second-half with Pavel Pogrebnyak firing home.
Portugal romped to a 5-0 win over
Luxembourg at the Estadio do Algarve.
The goals came from Helder Postiga, Cristiano Ronaldo, Fabio Coentrao and Hugo Almeida (2).
Convincing
A brace from Mohammed Abdellaoue helped
Norway to a convincing 3-0 win over
Czech Republic.
Abdellaoue's double sandwiched a goal from Fulham's John Arne Riise as the home side eased to victory in Oslo.
Colin Kazim-Richards was the hero for
Turkey as they claimed a 3-0 win over
Estonia in Istanbul.
Emre's penalty opened the scoring just eight minutes in before Kazim-Richards grabbed two before the interval.
France were held to a 1-1 draw by
Chile in Montpellier. Loic Remy had given the home side the lead after 20 minutes, but Nicolas Cordova grabbed a leveller for the South Americans with 14 minutes remaining.
Sweden claimed a 1-0 win in
Ukraine with Tobias Hysen grabbing the only goal in injury time.
China grabbed a 1-0 victory over
Jamaica in Guangzhou with Zhao Peng scoring just nine minutes in.
Finland travelled to
Latvia and claimed a 2-0 triumph courtesy of goals from Kasper Hamalainen and Timo Furuholm.
Sergey Kislyak's goal gave Belarus a 1-0 win over
Bulgaria in Minsk.
Thriller
Cyprus won a five-goal thriller against
Moldova in Strovolos with Sinisa Dobrasinovic getting the winner in the final minute.
Macedonia claimed a 1-0 win over
Azerbaijan with Goran Pandev getting the winner on the hour.
Hungary eased to a 4-0 success over
Iceland with two goals in either half in Budapest. Vladimir Koman and Gergely Rudolf struck before the break and Balazs Dzsudzsak and Akos Elek rounded off the scoring.
Manchester City's Stevan Savic scored twice for
Montengero but that could not save them as they lost 3-2 at
Albania.
Switzerland were made to work hard in Vaduz against
Liechtenstein as they came away with a 2-1 triumph over their tiny neighbours.
San Marino, who England face in World Cup qualifying, lost 1-0 to
Romania.
Jakub Blaszczykowski scored the only goal for
Poland as they beat
Georgia 1-0 win Lubin.
Slovakia were too good for
Austria as they claimed a 2-1 win. Goals from Juraj Kucka and Robert Jez set up the success as the home side could only reply through Erwin Hoffer.
Slovenia and
Belgium played out a goalless draw, as did
Bosnia and
Greece.