Switzerland vs Denmark (3-3)
Switzerland continues its bid for monetary unit 2020 qualification on a weekday.
A people have already secured a playoff spot for the tournament when dependable Nations League campaign and that they look to own brought that form forward after a gap 2-0 win in Georgia on a weekday.
Switzerland has solely did not qualify for one major tournament since the 2002 tourney and reached the last sixteen in Russia last summer, therefore, are favorites for a high two spot in qualifying cluster D, that additionally includes the Republic of Eire and Danmark. Danmark has had some recent success of their own.
A spherical of sixteen exits to finalists Croatia within the 2018 tourney was one in every of some respectable results the Danes tallied up over the tournament – another being their 0-0 attract the cluster stage to ultimate winners France.
Kasper Schmeichel, Christian Eriksen, Kasper Dolberg and Yussuf Poulsen are some notable names to own been referred to as up to the first recent squad by manager Age Hareide; UN agency has been to blame of the team since 2016.
Bookies build Schweiz the favorites here, however, given Denmark’s recent results – the Danes haven’t lost a competitive match in ninety minutes since 2016 (W9 D8) – we tend to like a game goal for this game.
Switzerland’s matches see lots of them and even while not star man Xherdan Shaqiri and forward Haris Seferovic, UN agency scored a hat-trick in their last home outing against Belgique (a 5-2 win), they were still ready to score two away to Georgia over the weekend. Notably, Denmark’s spectacular defensive type has for the most part been on their turf – the Danes have unbroken a clean sheet in mere 2 of their six qualifiers on the road since 2017.
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Goals Switzerland
| 19′ | Switzerland | R. Freuler |
| 66′ | Switzerland | G. Xhaka |
| 76′ | Switzerland | B. Embolo |
Goals Denmark
| 84′ | Denmark | M. Jorgensen |
| 88′ | Denmark | C. Gytkjaer |
| 90+3′ | Denmark | H. Dalsgaard |
Switzerland Lineups
| 1 | Yann Sommer |
| 4 | Nico Elvedi |
| 5 | Manuel Akanji |
| 13 | Ricardo Rodríguez |
| 23 | Kevin Mbabu |
| 17 | Denis Zakaria |
| 10 | Granit Xhaka |
| 8 | Remo Freuler |
| 14 | Steven Zuber |
| 7 | Breel Embolo |
| 9 | Albian Ajeti |
Denmark Lineups
| 1 | Kasper Schmeichel |
| 14 | Henrik Dalsgaard |
| 4 | Simon Kjær |
| 13 | Zanka |
| 17 | Jens Stryger Larsen |
| 19 | Lasse Schöne |
| 8 | Thomas Delaney |
| 20 | Yussuf Poulsen |
| 10 | Christian Eriksen |
| 11 | Martin Braithwaite |
| 9 | Nicolai Jørgensen |
Switzerland – Denmark Match Statistics
Switzerland |
Denmark |
|
| 11 | Shots Total | 14 |
| 3 | Shots on goal | 7 |
| 5 | Shots off goal | 5 |
| 3 | Shots blocked | 2 |
| 8 | Shots inside box | 10 |
| 3 | Shots outside box | 4 |
| 14 | Fouls | 11 |
| 6 | Corners | 4 |
| 0 | Offsides | 5 |
| 4 | Saves | 0 |
| 54% | Possession Time | 46% |
| 514 | Passes Total | 432 |
| 429 | Accurate Passes | 342 |
| 83% | Accurate Passes% | 79% |