Swiss NT

San Marino vs Switzerland
(Euro 2016 Qualification march)

San Marino: Simoncini A., Bonini G., Vitaioli F., Della Valle A., Brolli C., Battistini M., Palazzi M., Gasperoni A., Chiaruzzi N., Vitaioli M., Stefanelli M. - Einwechslungen: Cervellini M. (17. für Vitaioli F.), Hirsch A. (61. für Vitaioli M.), Gasperoni L. (69. für Gasperoni A.).





Switzerland: Sommer Y., Lichtsteiner S., von Bergen S., Djourou J., Rodriguez R., Kasami P., Xhaka G., Dzemaili B., Shaqiri X., Seferovic H., Drmic J. - Einwechslungen: Mehmedi A. (46. für Drmic J.), Widmer S. (59. für Lichtsteiner S.), Barnetta T. (72. für Kasami P.).





Goals:
10.) 0:1 - Haris Seferovic
24.) 0:2 - Haris Seferovic
30.) 0:3 - Blerim Dzemaili
79.) 0:4 - Xherdan Shaqiri

FT - San Marino 0:4 Switzerland

San Marino's goalie was really great today and even saved a penalty.

Call-up of the Swiss NT for the  EC qualification match against Lithuania in St. Gallen (15 Nov 2014) and the friendly against Poland in Poland (18 Nov 2014):

GKs: Yann Sommer (Mönchengladbach/9 matches/0 goals), Roman Bürki (Freiburg/0), Marwin Hitz (Augsburg/0), Yvon Mvogo (Young Boys/0)

Defenders: Johan Djourou (HSV/51/1), Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus Turin/70/5), Fabian Lustenberger (Hertha BSC/1/0), Jacques François Moubandje (Toulouse/0), Ricardo Rodriguez (Wolfsburg/28/0), Fabian Schär (Basel/8/3), Philippe Senderos (Aston Villa, 55/5), Steve von Bergen (Young Boys/46/0), Silvan Widmer (Udinese/1/0)

Midfielders/Strikers: Valon Behrami (HSV/542), Josip Drmic (Leverkusen/14/3), Blerim Dzemaili (Napoli/39/3), Gelson Fernandes (Rennes/48/2), Fabian Frei (Basel/4/0), Gökhan Inler (Napoli/79/6), Pajtim Kasami (Olympiakos Piräus/4/1), Admir Mehmedi (Freiburg/28/2), Haris Seferovic (Eintracht Frankfurt/18/4), Marco Schönbächler (Zürich/0), Xherdan Shaqiri (Bayern München/40/13), Valentin Stocker (Hertha BSC/25/3).

That's one hell of a goal record Shaqiri has there.

LOL, they are at fault: http://www.fussball.ch/Petkovic+nominiert+Neuling+Marco+Schoenbaechler/643727/detail.htm

Gotta check the correct number ^^

So, here's the official call up list: http://www.football.ch/de/Portaldata/1/Resources/dokumente/nationalteams/a-team/litauen/A-team_spielerliste_litauen-polen.pdf

The Euro qualifier match Switzerland vs Lithuania will be streamed for free at:

http://www.sfvplay.ch/de/SFV-Play-Live/A-Team-Schweiz-Litauen.aspx/tg-2305381/

Switzerland vs Lithuania

Switzerland: Sommer - Lichtsteiner, Schär, Djourou, Moubandje - Behrami, Inler, Dzemaili, Shaqiri - Seferovic, Mehmedi

Lithuania: Arlauskis - Vaitkünas, Freidgeimas, Kijanskas, Andriuskevicius - Cernych, Vicius, Chvedukas, Zulpa - Novikovas, Matulevicius

Goals:
66.) 1:0 - Arlauskis (own goal)
68.) 2:0 - Schär (assist by Behrami)
80.) 3:0 - Shaqiri (assist by Drmic)
90.) 4:0 - Shaqiri (assist by Drmic)

FT - Switzerland 4:0 Lithuania

Yann Sommer and Stephan Lichtsteiner were sent back to their clubs already and won't take part in the friendly against Poland on Tuesday.

Vladimir Petkovic decided they should better get some proper rest as Sommer already had 23 matches over the full distance this season with Gladbach and the NT and Lichtsteiner had 19 matches with Juventus and the NT.


"Let's go home - coach said we were due some days of rest!"

International Friendly - Poland vs Switzerland

Poland: Boruc; Olkowski; Cionek, Glik, Jedrzejczyk; Krychowiak, Jodlowiec, Kucharczyk, ZIelinski, Rybus; Lewandowski.

Switzerland: Bürki; Lang, Schär, Von Bergen, Moubandje; Gelson, Inler, Kasami; Shaqiri, Stocker, Drmic.

Goals:
4.) 0:1 - Josip Drmic (assist by Xherdan Shaqiri)

Roman Bürki is doing really well in the Swiss goal so far! By now the third save already after 27 minutes!

45+1.) 1:1 - Artur Jedrzejczyk

Uh-oh. In the 60th minute, Roman Bürki did one of his infamous kung-fu kicks and hit Robert Lewandowki at the head. Fortunately there was no injury to Lewandowski, but Bürki got a well-earned yellow that might even have been a red if the referee would have been more serious. And the following beautiful free-kick ended in the net...

61.) 2:1 - Arkadiusz Milik
87.) 2:2 - Fabian Frei (assist by Haris Seferovic)

FT - Poland 2:2 Switzerland


"Kung-fu Bürki" at work ^^

Switzerland: Bürki; Lang, Schär, Von Bergen, Moubandje; Gelson, Inler, Kasami; Shaqiri, Stocker, Drmic.

Lots of regulars being rested .

Well, it makes sense to rest some of the guys. Imagine, Yann Sommer already played 23 (!) competitive matches this season since mid-August! (As comparison, Roman Bürki only had 13 competitive matches so far.)

Call-up Swiss NT:


Call-up Swiss U21 NT:


Source: http://www.football.ch/de/Portaldata/1/Resources//kader-sui-est.pdf
http://www.football.ch/de/Portaldata/1/Resources//spielerliste-italien.pdf

The Swiss FA streams the match Switzerland vs Estland (Friday evening) for free here: http://www.sfvplay.ch/de/SFV-Play-Live.aspx

LOL, it looks as if Fabian Schär is a better striker than his attacking colleagues - he just scored the 1:0 for Switzerland against Estonia, meaning his quota is now 5 goals in 11 matches

Swiss NT Call-up

- Friendly match against Liechtenstein in Thun (SUI), 10 June 2015
- Euro qualification match against Lithuania in Vilnius (LTU), 14 June 2015.

GKs: Yann Sommer (Mönchengladbach/11 matches/0 goals), Marwin Hitz (Augsburg/0/0), Yvon Mvogo (Young Boys/0/0).

Defense: Johan Djourou (Hamburger SV/53/1), Timm Klose (Wolfsburg/8/0), Michael Lang (Grasshoppers/8/1), Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus Turin/73/5), Jacques François Moubandje (Toulouse/3/0), Ricardo Rodriguez (Wolfsburg/29/0), Fabian Schär (Basel/12/5), Steve von Bergen (Young Boys/48/0), Silvan Widmer (Udinese/3/0).

Midfield/Forwards: Valon Behrami (Hamburger SV/57/2), Josip Drmic (Leverkusen/18/4), Blerim Dzemaili (Galatasaray Istanbul/40/3), Breel Embolo (Basel/1/0), Gelson Fernandes (Rennes/51/2), Fabian Frei (Basel/7/1), Gökhan Inler (Napoli/83/6), Pajtim Kasami (Olympiakos Piräus/6/1), Admir Mehmedi (SC Freiburg/31/2), Haris Seferovic (Eintracht Frankfurt/22/5), Xherdan Shaqiri (Inter Mailand/44/15), Valentin Stocker (Hertha Berlin/28/4), Granit Xhaka (Mönchengladbach/35/6).

Roman Bürki misses out due to injury.

Breel Embolo, Fabian Frei and Fabian Schär, who play for Basel in the Swiss Cup final on Sunday, and Stephan Lichtsteiner, who plays for Juventus Turin in the Champions League final on Saturday, could be rested for the friendly against Liechtenstein.

Swiss NT Call-up

- Euro qualification match against Slovenia in Basel (SUI), 5 September 2015
- Euro qualification match against England in London (ENG), 8 September 2015.

GKs: Roman Bürki (Dortmund/2 caps/0 goals), Marwin Hitz (Augsburg/1/0), Yann Sommer (Mönchengladbach/12/0)

Defense: Timm Klose (Wolfsburg/9/0), Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus Turin/75/5), Fabian Lustenberger (Hertha Berlin/1/0), Jacques François Moubandje (Toulouse/4/0), Ricardo Rodriguez (Wolfsburg/30/0), Fabian Schär (Hoffenheim/13/5), Steve von Bergen (Young Boys/49/0), Silvan Widmer (Udinese/4/0).

Midfield/Forwards: Valon Behrami (Watford/59/2), Josip Drmic (Mönchengladbach/20/5), Blerim Dzemaili (Galatasaray Istanbul/42/5), Breel Embolo (Basel/3/0), Gelson Fernandes (Rennes/52/2), Gökhan Inler (Leicester/84/6), Pajtim Kasami (Olympiakos Piräus/7/1), Admir Mehmedi (Leverkusen/33/2), Haris Seferovic (Eintracht Frankfurt/23/5), Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke/46/17), Valentin Stocker (Hertha Berlin/29/4), Granit Xhaka (Mönchengladbach/36/6).

The Euro Qualifier Switzerland vs Slovenia in the St.Jakob-Park on 5 Sep 2015, 20:45 GMT+2 will be streamed for free by the Swiss Football Association at:

http://www.sfvplay.ch/de/SFV-Play-Live/A-Team-Schweiz-Slowenien.aspx/tg-2305390/


Yann Sommer getting interviewed in Feusisberg.

Switzerland Line-Up:


(click to enlarge)

Slovenia Line-up:

rwo explain

no need to explain

from 2-0 down to 3-2 FT in the last 10 minutes

Well, 80 minutes, Switzerland played abysmally bad. Suddenly, in the 80th minute, something exploded and Josip Drmic scored a brace and Vale Stocker scored another one inbetween. The first Drmic goal was a beauty, by the way.

Yann Sommer had no chance with any of the goals against (first Fabian Schär decided to complain to the ref because of a perceived foul, and in the meantime, his opponent overran him and gave the assist to the totally free standing Novakovic, and with the other goal, Timm Klose lost his opponent and he was completely free to score), and he even managed 3 wonderful saves or Switzerland would have been completely steamrolled.

Oh, and Samir Handanovic had a great game, too, despite the 3 goals - he did make same wonderful saves, too.

Handovic is the only name I recognized from the Slovenia lineup. RWO, don't you have a better RB than Lichtsteiner???

@iftikhar
Unfortunately there is a dearth of good fullbacks everywhere, and neither Stephan Lichtsteiner nor the other option on RB, Silvan Widmer are really convincing for Switzerland.

surprised to hear that about Lichtsteiner. He is quite solid in general

rwo power wrote:@iftikhar
Unfortunately there is a dearth of good fullbacks everywhere, and neither Stephan Lichtsteiner nor the other option on RB, Silvan Widmer are really convincing for Switzerland.

Hmm, but you have pretty good LB, or that's what I hear.

RG wrote:surprised to hear that about Lichtsteiner. He is quite solid in general

He is OK. But you wouldn't fancy having him in Arsenal, would you?

RealGunner wrote:surprised to hear that about Lichtsteiner. He is quite solid in general

Problem is that he got the captain's armband yesterday and spent far more time lamenting to the ref than playing.

(This was a disease by which Valentin Stocker caused the first goal, too. Ilicevic ran along on the wing and Stocker thought he handled the ball to control it and started to slow down and signal to the ref, while Ilicevic just ran on. The ref thought (rightfully) there was nothing, and then Ilicevic was already in front and could cross to the totally free Novakovic - and boom! Goal!)

In fairness, Lichtsteiner has always spent an unusual amount of time complaining to referees. It's why he's so entertaining to watch. No matter what, you know there will be off the ball entertainment.

Vucinic is the only player I've ever seen who spends a comparable amount of time annoying the officials.