Friendlies wrap: Ireland, Ghana romp to wins

Gary Speed’s first game in charge of Wales will be one he is keen to forget after his side slumped to a 3-0 defeat against Ireland in Dublin.

Second-half goals from Darron Gibson, Damien Duff and Keith Fahey saw Ireland claim a convincing win against a Welsh outfit missing the likes of Gareth Bale, Aaron Ramsey and Craig Bellamy.

Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni will be buoyed by the impressive international debuts of Everton midfielder Seamus Coleman and Aston Villa defender Ciaran Clark, both of whom started the match.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, first-half goals from Tobias Hysen and Marcus Berg were enough to hand Sweden a 2-0 win over Cyprus in Nicosia, while Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine needed a penalty shoot-out to defeat Romania after their match ended 2-2 after 90 minutes.

Ukraine were 2-0 up after 30 minutes courtesy of goals to Yaroslav Rakitskiy and Artem Milevskiy, but a brace from Dan Alexa levelled proceedings before the interval.

Ukrainian goalkeeper Oleksandr Shovkovskiy made two saves in the shoot-out to secure the win.

World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana powered to a 4-1 win over Togo in Antwerp.

Dominic Adiyiah gave Ghana the lead after 10 minutes, but Togo equalised from the penalty spot three minutes later.

Ghana restored their advantage on the hour mark with a goal from Udinese midfielder Jonathan Mensah before an own goal put them 3-1 ahead.

Substitute Samuel Inkoom completed the rout late on after capitalising on some nice build-up play from Adiyiah.

Didier Drogba, making his first international start since the 2010 World Cup, helped set up the only goal of the game for Hannover midfielder Didier Ya Konan as the Ivory Coast posted a 1-0 win over Mali.

And a goal from Orlando Contreras five minutes before half-time gave Peru a 1-0 win over Panama in Moquegua.