GLASGOW: Scotland and Denmark are both guaranteed at least playoff places in the European World Cup qualifying competition after they defeated Belarus and Greece respectively in Group D.

The two sides meet in their final fixture next month with the group winners earning automatic qualification for the tournament finals and the runners-up going into the playoffs.

Belarus started strongly against Scotland in Glasgow, earning three corners in the first 10 minutes, but the Scots opened the scoring through Che Adams. The Torino forward was initially flagged offside but a VAR video review showed he was onside.

Belarus thought they had equalised through Yevgeny Malashevich in the 63rd minute, but the goal was ruled out after a VAR check due to a foul on McTominay in the build-up.

Napoli midfielder McTominay scored from Andy Robertson’s cross in the 84th minute, as Belarus suffered their fourth straight loss despite Gleb Kuchko’s strike in added time.

Denmark ended Greece’s hopes of qualification with a dominant 3-1 victory in Copenhagen on first-half goals from Rasmus Hojlund, Joachim Andersen and Mikkel Damsgaard added two more before the break. A Greek consolation came from Club Brugge’s Christos Tzolis.

Greece, who sit third with three points from four games, now cannot match or overtake their hosts or Scotland, who are both on 10 points with two games remaining.

Memphis Depay extended his Netherlands scoring record as they cruised to an easy 4-0 win over Finland in Group G which kept them comfortably top of the group ahead of Poland.

Donyell Malen started the scoring at the Johan Cruyff Arena with an eighth-minute strike, followed by a header from Virgil van Dijk nine minutes later. Depay converted a 38th-minute penalty to take his tally of goals for the Dutch to 54 – having overtaken Robin van Persie’s previous record of 50 last month – before Cody Gakpo made it 4-0 six minutes from fulltime.

Faroe Islands, ranked 136th in the world, stunned Czech Republic 2-1 in Group L thanks to a late winner from substitute Martin Agnarsson a minute after coming on.

The North Atlantic archipelago with a population of about 55,000 had also shocked Montenegro 4-0 on Thursday and now sit third in Group L, one point below the second-placed Czechs with one match to go.

Hanus Sorensen put Faroe Islands ahead in the second half, with Adam Karabec equalising for the visitors in the 78th minute. Then a defensive mistake from 39th-ranked Czech Republic allowed Agnarsson to shoot into an empty net three minutes later, sealing the win.

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