European
football paid tribute to the victims of attacks in Euro 2016 hosts France
during Saturday's qualifying play-offs which saw Sweden edge Denmark 2-1 and
Ukraine beat Slovenia 2-0 in first-leg ties.
A
minute's silence was observed before Saturday's games for victims of the Paris
attacks on Friday, one of which was outside the Stade de France where world
champions Germany were playing a friendly against France.
In
Solna, Paris Saint-Germain star Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his ninth goal in as
many qualifiers as Sweden took a slight advantage over 1992 champions Denmark.
Ibrahimovic
converted a second half penalty after Emil Forsberg had scored his first
international goal on the stroke of half-time.
But
substitute Nicolai Jorgensen grabbed an away-goal lifeline for Denmark 10
minutes from time ahead of the second leg in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
Earlier
Ukraine took a comfortable 2-0 lead over Slovenia in Lviv as Andrei Yarmolenko
and Yevhen Seleznyov scored in either half of a bad tempered clash at the
packed 65,000-seat Lviv Arena.
Ukraine,
who have lost all five of their previous qualifying play-offs for major
tournaments, dominated early but Samir Handanovic proved solid in the Slovenian
goal in the opening 20 minutes.
But
in the 22nd minute Yarmolenko picked up a rebound after Handanovic failed to
clear Yevhen Konoplyanka's cross and slotted inside the far post with a low
shot.
Slovenia
poured into attack and midfielder Josip Ilicic missed a clear chance to level
after 27 minutes.
After
the break, Ukraine continued to press forward and in the 54th minute Seleznyov
got the second with a close range shot off an Artem Fedetskiy cross.
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