Germany and the Netherlands continued flying starts to the qualifying stage of the 2012 European Championship with victories on Friday.

Germany eased past visiting Turkey 3-0 and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar hit his sixth goal in qualifying to give the Dutch a 1-0 victory over Moldova.

World and European champion Spain went top of Group I with a convincing 3-1 win at home against Lithuania

Former world champion Italy, however, missed several chances and drew 0-0 at Northern Ireland.

Italy kept top spot in Group C but it still has much work to do at both ends of the field following its dismal first-round exit from this year's World Cup.

The Turkish fans made up almost half of the 74,244-crowd at Berlin's Olympic Stadium, but were silenced by an influential performance from Germany's Turkish-born midfielder Mesut Oezil.

The 21-year-old Real Madrid playmaker blocked out the jeers to seal his side's victory with a 79th-minute goal, after Miroslav Klose had broken the deadlock shortly before half-time.

Klose netted his second in the 87th minute to claim his fifth goal in three qualifying games and his 57th overall in Germany's colours -- 11 short of Gerd Mueller's all-time record.

Rafael van der Vaart set up Klaas-Jan Huntelaar with a superb pass through the defense in the first half as the Dutch made it three wins from three qualifiers despite the absence of Robin van Persie, Arjen Robben, Theo Janssen, and Eljero Elia.

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