BERLIN (AP) — Defending champion Italy crashed out of the European Championship after losing to Switzerland 2-0 in the last 16 on Saturday. Goals in each half from Remo Freuler and Ruben Vargas gave the Swiss their first win over their southern neighbor for 31 years and set up a quarterfinal against England or Slovakia...
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Scotland v Switzerland team news: Shaqiri in for Duah
There’s one more European Championship match to go this evening: Scotland v Switzerland. Kick-off in this Group A encounter is at 20:00 BST. Steve Clarke responds to Scotland’s thrashing by Germany by making two changes to his side. Grant Hanley and Billy Gilmour are in, with Ryan Porteous beginning a two-match ban and Ryan Christie...
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The FIFA World Rankings are not that important – and that’s a good thing
Follow live coverage of Germany vs Hungary, Croatia vs Albania and Scotland vs Switzerland at Euro 2024 today [Editor’s note: this is an updated version of an article originally published in October 2023] Football’s world rankings are a convenient way of measuring the difference in the stature of sides facing one another at a major...
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The Business of Football at Euro 2024: Planes to Qatar, delayed trains and Chinese automobiles
Whether travel broadens or narrows the mind is one of the eternal debates, but football fans who have travelled to Germany for the European Championship this summer are learning the options are not so binary. For them, travel — or, more accurately, a lack of travel — is blowing their minds. Certainly in the UK,...
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Szoboszlai is Hungary’s boy-prince – but trying to do everything is unsustainable
Dominik Szoboszlai started to sing and his Hungary team-mates followed. Only their lips moved, Szoboszlai at the front, the majority with arms behind their backs but some with fists on their hearts. Over the advertising hoardings, their black-clad supporters sang the impromptu anthem back. They held the last note — and then Szoboszlai clapped, the...
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How Duah became Switzerland’s comic book hero (in just 60 minutes)
The first English-born goalscorer of Euro 2024 won’t be Harry Kane. It won’t be Jude Bellingham and it won’t be Bukayo Saka. Before any of them had even stepped on a pitch at this tournament, Switzerland’s Kwadwo Duah had already left his mark. Duah couldn’t stop smiling throughout his post-match interviews after Switzerland’s 3-1 victory...
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Premier League shown benefit of new offside technology as Switzerland given goal
Switzerland’s opening goal at Euro 2024 has showcased just how well semi-automated offside could work in the Premier League. Kwadwo Duah found the back of the net against Hungary following a delicious assist from Michel Aebischer, only for the goal to be ruled offside. 2 Duah’s goal was allowed to stand after the automated offside...
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Hungary v Switzerland team news: Shaqiri benched – Best FPL Tips, Advice, Team News, Picks, and Statistics from Fantasy Football Scout
The first of three European Championship matches today gets underway at 14:00 BST in Cologne: Hungary v Switzerland. It’s the second Group A encounter following Germany’s win over Scotland last night. It’s a match of limited Fantasy interest, although Hungary’s Dominik Szoboszlai is owned by 18% of managers in the official game. The Liverpool midfielder...
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‘Ten German Bombers’ – the chant that could shame England fans at Euro 2024
Follow live coverage of Spain vs Croatia, Italy vs Albania & Hungary vs Switzerland at Euro 2024 today Amid a scathing look at English football’s more jingoistic and troublesome followers by singer, songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg in his 1991 song The Few, one line summed up the peculiar brand of ultra-nationalism on display...
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Viktor Orban and the weaponisation of Hungary’s football team
Follow live coverage of Spain vs Croatia, Italy vs Albania & Hungary vs Switzerland at Euro 2024 today Sign up for The Athletic today with our limited-time Tournament Sale offer. Viktor Orban could not have been clearer. “Today, we have a national team that goes into the game with the chance to win against anyone,”...
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Manuel Akanji is a human super computer getting ‘lippy’ about Euro 2024 chances
Manuel Akanji has had an impact in more ways than one since joining Manchester City in 2022. The Swiss defender has established himself as a key cog in Pep Guardiola‘s team who have won six trophies in two years, and he certainly seems to have left his mark on his teammates too. 3 Akanji enjoyed...
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Winners And Losers: Sports Betting In Switzerland
(MENAFN– Swissinfo) With the Euro 2024 football tournament and the Olympic Games just weeks away, bookmakers and punters are looking forward to a summer of betting on sports. But how easy is it to have a flutter in Switzerland? This content was published on May 27, 2024 – 16:35 8 minutes Born in London, Thomas...