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Bulgaria vs Switzerland
Bulgaria
Swiss
Playing The game is over, Switzerland wins. 15 strong minutes, with three goals at the start, are enough for the Swiss team to win the first game of the World Cup qualification. There was very little of the Swiss to be seen in the second half, but the Bulgarians were practically never able to reverse the game.
For the national team, the match against Lithuania continues on Sunday.
Substitution Admir Mehmedi comes during the last seconds. Breel Plunger, Scorer at 0: 1, goes from the field.
There are still two minutes to play. Still not a pleasure.
Substitution Another double change. Haris Seferovic makes bursts for Mario gavranovic, Seeding of Djibril comes for Remo Freuler.
Granit xhaka comes to a conclusion after a corner kick is blocked. This lands a bit next to the door.
A sign of life from the national team. Ruben vargas Kick two corners, the second is dangerous.
Substitution Vladimir Petkovic also changes twice. xherdan Shaqiri make Ruben vargas place, Denis Zakaria comes for Steven Zuber.
Substitution And another change from Eastern Europeans. Cicinho comes out, Momchil Tsetanov comes to look for him.
Substitution The Bulgarians with double substitution. With Ilian Iliev, the third Iliev intervenes, Georgi Yomov leaves. Ivaylo Chochev also takes the place and replaces Kristiyan Malinov.
Yellow card Cicinho with the tactical foul.
The hosts cannot be recognized in the second round. Bulgaria now plays at the same level as Switzerland.
Yann sommer erases on the line. Georgi Konstadinov approaches the header, but finds his master in the Swiss goalkeeper.
Switzerland slept completely for the first ten minutes of the second half. The Bulgarians face the troubled national team with a new system. Switzerland is slowly picking up the game, but has yet to come to a conclusion.
Yellow card Manuel Akanji with the leg stretched out.
Dangerous free kick of the Bulgarians. The Swiss wall directs the ball over the goal.
Substitution Kiril Despodov was injured shooting on goal and must be replaced. For him comes Spas Delev.
Atana Iliev replaced Dimitar Iliev before the restart.
Aim Goal for Bulgaria! After less than a minute, the Bulgarians conceded a goal. Kiril Despodov executes a catastrophic bad pass from Remo Freuler and hits from the edge of the area.
Kick off The second half is underway. The home team almost needs a miracle if they want to achieve anything against Switzerland. With the national team, on the other hand, the question arises: will they score more goals?
Pause Part time in Sofia. A brilliant start gives Switzerland a three-goal lead. After just over 20 minutes, the national team slowed down a bit, but the Bulgarians did not provoke any dangerous action.
Haris Seferovic comes to an opportunity just before the break. However, his header missed the goal.
Good luck to the Bulgarians. Haris Seferovic is held in the penalty area, but the whistle is not blown.
Another corner for Switzerland. But this attempt did not reach the goal either.
The Swiss team now have to be careful not to give too much away. It hasn’t been dizzy yet, but the Bulgarians are getting into the game better and now find themselves increasingly on the opposite half of the pitch.
For once, Kiril Despodov creates a little danger. The Bulgarian refueled from the middle line to the Swiss sixteen. But his pass does not arrive.
xherdan Shaqiri with a free kick and a corner kick, but neither finds a shooter.
The home team does not advance any further, it is always a step late. The Swiss deftly circulated the game material in their own ranks and took no chances. Ball possession: 81 percent for the national team.
The Bulgarians are completely out of their way. Only Switzerland plays, which is at least two classes better in the start phase and has everything under control.
Aim Goal for Switzerland! What’s going on here? xherdan Shaqiri He runs down the right side in the middle and pushes the ball between the post and the shin past the goalkeeper. Leather stops on the line before Steven Zuber at 0: 3 pushes inward.
Aim Goal for Switzerland! And again the ball twists in the goal. Shaqiri he throws very well, passes the ball through the middle Haris Seferovic, which then pushes clarified towards the lower right corner.
Aim Goal for Switzerland! Breel Plunger leads the national team to the head. The flank came from Ricardo Rodriguez.
Switzerland enters the opponent’s penalty area for the first time. Piston but he becomes the opponent.
Kick off It begins with qualifying for the World Cup. Switzerland with Shaqiri has started.
Switzerland is the clear favorite against Bulgaria. A win against number 68 in the world rankings is a must if Switzerland is to win the group. Although the Nati failed to win a single match in the 2020 calendar year, one thing speaks clearly in favor of the Swiss: the impeccable record of mandatory tasks.
In the three elimination campaigns in 2016, 2018 and 2020, Switzerland only lost once to teams with lower ratings. That was against Slovenia in October 2014. Under Vladimir Petković, he won about 75 percent of all qualifying matches.
Switzerland begins qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with the match against Bulgaria. Welcome to the live ticker.
In addition to Switzerland and Bulgaria, Group C also includes Lithuania, Northern Ireland and Italy. At the end of qualification in November, each team will play twice against all other teams. The group winner qualifies directly for the World Cup final. Whoever finishes second will have to fight during the playoffs in March 2022 and win two knockout games to also be in Qatar.
