Sweden vs. Switzerland: 2018 World Cup Live

Forwards: 9 Marcus Berg (Al Ain), 20 Ola Toivonen (Toulouse)

Sweden vs Switzerland: how they got here

These two teams qualified for the World Cup thanks to the second qualifying rounds luck after finishing second in their groups. Sweden finished behind France, which qualified for the quarter-finals, while the …

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• Sweden beat South Korea, lost face Germany, then drilled Mexico, 3-0, to advance. His main scorer is Andreas Granqvist, a 33-year-old defenseman who is the captain of the team. Both goals were penalties. Granqvist's wife must give birth one day to another in Sweden

• After scoring goals in the Serbian game, Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri made two eagle gestures, a allusion to the Albanian flag. The gesture was perceived as provocative because Xhaka and Shaqiri have roots in Kosovo, an ethnically Albanian province that waged a war of independence against Serb-dominated Yugoslav forces in the late 1990s. fined, and the gestures did not return against Costa Rica.

• One of these teams will visit recently unexplored areas. Sweden made the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup in the United States, but has not pbaded the knockout stage since. Switzerland has not advanced further than this since its World Cup in 1954.

• The Swede Emil Forsberg has a dubious distinction: he has six shots out of the target, tied for the most part at the Chopped off. (He has two shots on target and four shots blocked.)

• Switzerland showed their courage in a draw with Brazil, then beat Serbia (again from behind), before a draw with Costa Rica . . Five players share the five goals of the team.

• Sebastian Larsson will miss Sweden because of an injury. Stephan Lichtsteiner and Fabian Schar are suspended for Switzerland

• Bookmakers consider this game as a close, but Switzerland is a favorite

• Skomina of Slovenia will be the referee.

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