Are Switzerland the new Wales?
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MATCH STATS
Head to head
- This is the first meeting between Switzerland and Spain at the European Championship. Their three previous meetings in a major tournament came in the 1966, 1994 and 2010 World Cups, with Spain winning the first two and Switzerland triumphing last time out.
- Spain have lost just one of their 22 meetings with Switzerland in all competitions (W16 D5), with that defeat coming in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Switzerland
- This is Switzerland's fourth quarter-final appearance in a major tournament (World Cup and Euro), and their first in the European Championship. The Swiss have lost each of their previous three such games - 3-2 v Czechoslovakia (1934), 2-0 v Hungary (1938) and 7-5 v Austria (1954).
- Switzerland have scored three goals in each of their last two European Championship matches, having never scored more than twice in any of their first 15 in the competition.
- Switzerland's Haris Seferovic has scored three goals in his last two games at the Euros, having netted just one in his first 13 appearances at major tournaments.
Spain
- Spain became the first team in European Championship history to score 5+ goals in consecutive games. They hadn't scored more than four goals in any of their first 42 matches in the competition.
- Spain are averaging 73.4% possession and have a passing accuracy of 89.5% at Euro 2020 so far. Both figures are their highest on record in a single edition of the European Championship (since 1980).
- Ferran Torres has been involved in eight goals in his last nine appearances in all competitions for Spain (7 goals, 1 assist). Torres has scored in his last two games at the European Championship, with no Spanish player ever scoring in three in a row in the competition.
Are Switzerland the new Wales?
Well this is exciting
Bored shitless here
Red card for the Swiss at 1-1, looked the right decision to me.
What a block that is from Rodriguez
swiss are the new belgium . we are the new scotland
Who are the New Zealand
Wore pelanty sjoot-out ever?
Switzerland depart the competition having been the only side who could argue a worst travel schedule than us - probably showed in this game through injuries and the yellow/red card count. They're clearly a good tournament team.
Spain look good but, ironically after managing it ten times in two games, are struggling to score this year. Think they'll be a much bigger threat in Qatar and Germany if they can hold onto this manager and coaching team.
After the clinical dispatching of the French through well-taken penalties, those attempts last night could not have been further at the opposite end of the scale. Sending off looked really harsh to me, but I was watching down the pub, so may have missed something - and I note comments above that it looked legit. Thought the Swiss actually turned up at this tournament though - quite often they don't.