United's international players experienced mixed fortunes on Tuesday night, from Wayne Rooney's goalscoring performance with England to another slip-up for Nani and Portugal.
Rooney took just 10 minutes to breach the Switzerland defence in Basel, converting a cross from Glen Johnson to claim his first competitive goal at international level for 12 months. England substitute Adam Johnson made it 2-0 in the 69th minute - shortly after the hosts had Stephan Lichtsteiner sent off for a second bookable offence - and although Xherdan Shaqiri pulled a goal back, the Three Lions eventually wrapped up a deserved 3-1 victory when another sub Darren Bent struck two minutes from time.
The result means England have maximum points so far in the European Championship qualifiers, as have the Republic of Ireland. John O'Shea played 90 minutes and Darron Gibson came off the bench for the final half-hour as the Irish beat Andorra 3-1 in Dublin.
Darren Fletcher's Scotland were also victorious on Tuesday night but only just, with the winner from Stephen McManus clocked at seven minutes into injury time. The Celtic defender's strike capped a face-saving turnaround - the unfancied Liechtenstein had taken a shock lead through Mario Frick in the 47th minute and were in front for quarter of an hour until Rangers forward Kenny Miller equalised. Fletcher skippered the Scots from first to final whistle as he earned his 50th cap.
It wasn't Nani's night in Norway, where Portugal surprisingly lost 1-0. Erik Huseklepp's first-half goal heaped misery on the visitors, who were held 4-4 at home by Cyprus at the weekend.
Serbia fared slightly better in a contest that kept the referee busy - Nemanja Vidic was one of ten players booked by Portuguese official Olegário Benquerença. The visitors from Slovenia struck first in terms of goals but Nikola Zigic's late equaliser for the Serbians secured a final score of 1-1.
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