A Marouane Fellaini brace and further strikes from Christian Benteke, Eden Hazard and Michy Batshuayi earned Belgium a 5-0 Euro 2016 qualifying victory over Cyprus in Brussels in Group B on Saturday.
Fellaini and Benteke struck in the first half to give Belgium a commanding 2-0 lead before the break, before Fellaini, Hazard and Batshuayi netted in the second to complete a commanding victory for Marc Wilmots' side.
Meanwhile, Edin Dzeko racked up a hat-trick for Bosnia and Herzegovina as they picked up their first win of the qualifying campaign with a 3-0 victory over Andorra, also in Group B.
Vaclav Pilar's last-minute equaliser saw Czech Republic snatch a point as they salvaged a 1-1 draw against Latvia in qualifying Group A in Prague on Saturday.
Aleksejs Visnakovs' 30th minute-goal had put Latvia on course for their first victory in the group stages before Pilar was in the right place to turn in a rebound moments before the final whistle.
The Czechs, who had started the day three points clear at the top, are now just one ahead of Iceland after they took a 3-0 victory against Kazakhstan in Astana.
Eidur Gudjohnsen celebrated his return from international retirement by opening the scoring before Birkir Bjarnason's double completed a comfortable win for Iceland.
The Netherlands continue to struggle in their European Championship qualifying campaign as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Turkey in Amsterdam.
Burak Yilmaz fired Turkey into the lead thanks to a deflection in the 37th minute and the Dutch had to wait until second-half stoppage time for Wesley Sneijder to score the equaliser which saw them narrowly avoid their third defeat in Group A.
Croatia claimed a comfortable 5-1 victory over Norway in an entertaining Euro 2016 qualifier at the Stadion Maksimir.
The Group H leaders went three points clear at the top ahead of second-placed Italy's Saturday evening clash in Bulgaria thanks to goals from Marcelo Brozovic, Ivan Perisic, Ivica Olic, Gordon Schildenfeld and Danijel Pranjic, while they lost Vedran Corluka to a red card midway through the second half.
Tarik Elyounoussi missed a penalty for Norway with 20 minutes left and Alexander Tettey netted a consolation to leave them third, four points off the lead.
Eder marked his Italy debut in style with a brilliant equaliser as they kept their qualifying run going in Bulgaria.
The Azzurri had not lost in 44 qualifying fixtures going into this clash - a run dating back to 2006 - but that was seriously under threat as they trailed 2-1 with eight minutes left.
But Sampdoria's Brazil-born striker had other ideas and curled in an equaliser from the edge of the box to secure a 2-2 draw.
It had looked as though new Bulgaria coach Ivaylo Petev was going to start his reign with a win, with Ivelin Popov and Iliyan Mitsanski having responded to Iordan Minev's early own goal.
Azerbaijan prevailed in the battle of the Group H minnows as they beat Malta 2-0.
Gabala striker Javid Huseynov scored the opening goal of the game four minutes in and it looked enough to decide a tie which features two sides who had one point between them prior to kick-off.
But Dimitrij Nazarov added an injury-time second for good measure to wrap things up.
