INTERNATIONALS: BLUES HOPE ALIVE

All of Chelsea's players who featured in Euro 2012 qualifiers on Friday are either qualified or remain in contention for next summer's tournament. Three were among the night's scorers.
With sides topping their groups automatically making it through and second-placed sides going into play-offs next month, our England players guaranteed their place, our Spanish and Dutch players were already there but the rest need results to go their way on Tuesday.
England got the away point they needed and they would have taken all three points had it not been for a stoppage-time equaliser by Montenegro, the first team to prevent England from winning away from Wembley in the campaign.
'We are a little bit disappointed after being 2-0 up in the way we ended up drawing the game but it is great where we have got to, we are top of group and we have worked hard all the way through,' said John Terry who skippered his national side for the whole match.
'Maybe it was too easy for us and we let them into the game at the end of the first half when they scored.'
England finish their campaign with 18 points from eight games, six clear of Montenegro who are in the play-offs. They have one qualifier still to play.
Ashley Cole also played the full match; Frank Lampard came on after 65 minutes for Darren Bent, one of the first-half scorers with Ashley Young having opened England's account. Wayne Rooney was sent off on 74 minutes so will miss the start of Euro 2012.
Branislav Ivanovic scored the goal that gave Serbia hope of still making the Finals although they still have work to do to make the tournament in Poland and Ukraine next summer.
Serbia recovered strongly at home after conceding an early goal against Italy. Ivanovic deflected a shot past Gianluigi Buffon on 26^th minute for a 1-1 draw. The Chelsea defender and his team-mates must now beat Slovenia away on Tuesday to guarantee a play-off place, Italy having already secured top spot.
Juan Mata scored past Petr Cech after just seven minutes in Prague as Spain won 2-0. The reigning European champions were already certain of first place in their group but that didn't stop Chelsea's summer signing finding the net after a typical short-passing move. Fernando Torres was back in the Spain starting line-up and he was involved the move that ended with Xabi Alonso scoring a second goal, but was subbed on 61 minutes before the Czechs were reduced to 10 men.
Cech's nation missed out on the last World Cup and now they sit just two points ahead of Scotland in the race for a Euros play-off place. Scotland play away in Liechtenstein on Saturday and then away to Spain on Tuesday. Czech Republic have one more game, away to Lithuania on Tuesday.
Florent Malouda was another Chelsea player on target on Friday night, beginning a 3-0 win for France at home to Albania by converting a low cross at the far post on 11 minutes. France need a point from their final game for top spot ahead of Tuesday's opponents Bosnia and Herzegovina who play in Paris.

Raul Meireles played the first hour of Portugal's eventful 5-3 win over Iceland in Porto that leaves them needing a point from their final game to guarantee their place at the Finals. Portugal wrap up the group with a match away to second-place Denmark on Tuesday.
Jeffrey Bruma played the full match for the already-qualified Netherlands as they made it a perfect nine wins out of nine with a 1-0 home win over Moldova.
Romelu Lukaku and Thibaut Courtois were unused subs by Belgium as they beat Kazakhstan 4-1 at home to set a target of three points from a match away to group winners Germany to guarantee a play-off place.
David Luiz played the whole of a friendly win for Brazil in Costa Rica, Santos striker Neymar scoring the only goal.
In the week's Under 21 internationals, Josh McEachran came on with 63 minutes played of England Under 21s 3-0 away win in Iceland, all the goals scored by that point.
Oriol Romeu played the full match as Spain Under 21s won 2-0 away in Croatia, and Patrick van Aanholt was part of a 1-0 success for the Netherlands U21s in Austria. Gael Kakuta played 68 minutes of France's 2-0 home win against Kazakhstan. Rhys Taylor was an unused sub as Wales lost 3-1 in Montenegro.
England Under 19s won their second game in a four-team tournament in France on Friday, beating Portugal 1-0 with Nathaniel Chalobah and Todd Kane in the team. Jamal Blackman remained on the bench.
Philipp Prosenik played for Austria Under 19s in a 0-0 draw against Albania.