Sweden vs. Switzerland: 2018 World Cup Live

27 & quot; Lustig Fort for Sweden in the back

More good Swedish defensive: Mikael Lustig shares the blame

24: Switzerland loses its chance

Switzerland finds Steven Zuber in the box

23 "Sweden Pressing

After a series of pbades, Switzerland goes up 50 yards to where it started. Sweden puts pressure on the field

19: Sweden defends the defense

Switzerland manages to put the ball back in the air, but the Swedish defense is very well organized and thwarts the best Swiss efforts.

Andrew Das: It's not too early to say that this game could use a goal to open it. These teams will be cautious by nature, knowing that a rare trip to the quarterfinals is there to take it as long as they do not do something stupid and reject it. But the longer it remains without score, the more he could become suspicious. A goal makes the thought explode. Then everyone on the losing team has to press [.]

15: Back and Forth

A good run of pbades for Sweden ends with Lustig sweeping the ball aside in the direction from Switzerland. On the other side, the center of Shaqiri is too high for Josip Drmic. Both teams had early chances, but Sweden was more threatening.

Sweden vs Switzerland: a qualifying match for the European Championships, a participation straight out of Italia 90.

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Rory Smith (@RorySmith)
July 3, 2018

13: Attack of Switzerland

Xherden Shaqiri with a beautiful deep pbad from Dzemaili, who can not reach it. Swedish goalkeeper Robin Olsen collects

10 "Sweden Getting Chances

Another explosion over the bar for Sweden. It's still Berg, but his shot is blocked. Ekdal rushes to get the rebound but sends one in the stands. Switzerland is left a little open at the back in the last minutes

9: Misfire for Sweden

Sweden scores for the goal and Marcus Berg is behind the defense! But his shot is atrocious

8: A new shot for Switzerland handled

Zuber from Switzerland with a nice dribble and a curling shot, but the goalkeeper is right there.

7: Forsberg Sonder

Emil Forsberg sends a ball through the Swiss defense, but there is nobody on the other end of it. Goal kick

5: Switzerland, the good side early

Switzerland was right the first touch, but the two teams are far from having yet given the # 1 Authoritative on the match

4: Free Kick for Sweden

The Swiss Blerim Dzemaili fires an early whistle from the referee Damir Skomina. Free kick for Sweden

1: Shaqiri Fires First

Sweden starts with the push back and Lindelof simply falls on the ball, losing the ball! A quick chance for Switzerland results in a long-range shot of Xherdan Shaqiri who goes away

Andrew Das: Nothing says that a scary moment in a knockout match that one Swedish defender slips, falls and returns the ball the first minute. Nothing says that the "draw without goal" comes to Switzerland with a throw of 25 yards on 10 yards wide

Kickoff!

Clbadical colors today: Sweden in yellow, Switzerland in red

19659034] Damir Skomina of Slovenia will be the referee. Skomina also participated in Colombia-Japan and England-Belgium matches in the group stage.

Starting lineup of Switzerland

Goalkeeper: 1 Yann Sommer (Borussia Mönchengladbach)

Defenders: 5 Manuel Akanji (Borussia Dortmund), 20 Johan Djourou (Antalyaspor), 6 Michael Lang (Basel), 13 Ricardo Rodriguez (Milan)

Midfielders: 11 Valon Behrami (Udinese), 15 Blerim Dzemaili (Bologna), 23 Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City), 10 Granite Xhaka (Arsenal), 14 Steven Zuber (1899 Hoffenheim)

Forward: 19 Josip Drmic (Borussia Mönchengladbach)

Starting lineup of Sweden

Goalkeeper: 1 Robin Olsen (Copenhagen)

Defenders: 2 Mikael Lustig (Celtic), 3 Victor Lindelof (Manchester United ), 4 Andreas Granqvist (Krasnador), 6 Ludwig Augustinsson (Werder Bremen)

Midfielders: 8 Albin Ekdal (Hamburg), 10 Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig), 13 Gustav Svensson (Seattle Sounders), 17 Viktor Claesson ( Krasnador)

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

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The Swiss leader is Granit Xhaka, who has played 65 games for his country. Sweden turns to Andreas Granqvist, who is playing his 75th international match. The two captains have already scored in this World Cup

Sweden against Switzerland: History

These teams have played several times over the years, but not since 2002 and not in a competitive match since 1995.

] Playing from behind

How will these teams succeed if they are late today? Switzerland came back from behind to lure Brazil and beat Serbia (it then made two attempts against Costa Rica). Sweden, we do not really know it. He spun only a few seconds into this Cup, moments between when Germany scored in the 95th minute and the whistle blew.

Longshot World Cup

These teams started as longshots to win the Cup: Switzerland was 175-1 and Sweden 400-1. Their success in reaching the round of 16 has lowered these odds, although they are still foreign: Switzerland is 50-1 and Sweden 75-1. In a few hours, one of these prices will be even shorter.

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FIFA World Cup ™ (@FIFAWorldCup)
3 July 2018

Sweden vs. Switzerland: How They Got Here

Both teams qualified for the World Cup through the second-chance playoffs after finishing second in their groups. Sweden finished behind France, who qualified for the quarter-finals, while Sweden …

Sweden vs. Switzerland Top Story Lines

• Sweden beat South Korea, lost to Germany 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 any day in Sweden.

• After scoring goals in the game of Serbia, Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri made two eagle gestures, an 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 mettle 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 the game as close, but Switzerland is a favorite.

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