The defender remained on the bench when club team-mates Timo Werner and Kai Havertz both scored in Saturday’s win over Israel, but he joined the pair in the starting line-up for their final game in this international break, away against one their traditional big rivals the Netherlands.

Rudiger’s landmark cap came just under eight years after his first but he was unable to celebrate it with a win or a clean sheet, as the home side equalised in the second half for a 1-1 draw in Amsterdam.

Werner hit the bar with a header in the first half, Havertz having earlier had a shot saved, but the Germans went ahead moments before half-time when a ball played in towards Havertz was half-cleared by the Dutch defence, only for Thomas Muller to sweep it into the net.

Rudiger had contributed to the half-time lead when chasing back and preventing the breaking Donyell Malen firing his shot on target, and then making an important challenge on Memphis Depay as he was about to shoot.

Full-back David Raum could have doubled the Germans’ lead early in the second half when he shot just over. Instead came the Dutch equaliser from Tottenham’s Steven Bergwijn who had just come on.

After that there was a degree of good fortune for the visitors with a VAR review leading to the overturning of a penalty awarded the Netherlands way, and a goal-line clearance by the Germans, but a draw was arguably a fair result, ending an eight-game winning run at the start of Hansi Flick’s time in charge. Havertz played 69 minutes, Werner 81 and Rudiger saw out the full game.

In Spain, Cesar Azpilicueta started in a big 5-0 win over Iceland and Marcos Alonso joined the action on 58 minutes, making a big impact. He assisted twice for another substitute, Sporting Lisbon’s Pablo Sarabia, to net the fourth and fifth goals, the first a header from a cross and the second a tap-in from Alonso’s pass. Former Blue Alvaro Morata had scored the first two goals, one from the penalty spot.

There was also a 5-0 win for France, in Lille against South Africa, with N’Golo Kante playing 65 minutes. The score was 2-0 by the time he was replaced by Paul Pogba, with past Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud among the goals to move three behind Thierry Henry’s record for his country.

France have now won seven games in a row.

At Wembley, Mason Mount and on-loan Conor Gallagher were on the bench for England who hosted Ivory Coast with the latter introduced with just over 10 minutes to play.

By that stage the Three Lions were 2-0 up with first-half goals by Ollie Watkins, on his first start, and Raheem Sterling. Between those, Ivory Coast were reduced to 10 men when former Spurs defender Serge Aurier was shown a second yellow card.

England’s third in a 3-0 win was scored by Tyrone Mings from an added-time corner at the end of the game.

Two more Chelsea players out loan were second-half subs for their nations in the Wales and Scotland friendly games.

Ethan Ampadu made his entrance after an hour of Wales’ match against Czech Republic who took the lead through Tomas Soucek, only for Rubin Colwill to equalise two minutes later in his home club stadium in Cardiff. Wales had chances for a winner in a match that ended 1-1.

Billy Gilmour had to wait longer for Steve Clarke to bring him on away to Austria. The midfielder entered the fray with 77 minutes played and the Scots 2-1 up with Jack Hendry and John McGinn having netted, but Austria found the equaliser their chances warranted with the final score 2-2.

Michy Batshuayi was a starter for Belgium in their home friendly against Burkina Faso and played 69 minutes before being replaced by Christian Benteke who scored the third goal in a 3-0 win. Batshuayi had assisted for Leandro Trossard to score the second.

Later on, Thiago Silva remained on the bench as Brazil continued an unbeaten World Cup qualification campaign with a 4-0 win in Bolivia. They have one of their 18 fixtures to play, a rearranged fixture against Argentina.