Sweden – Switzerland World Cup Tips
Both teams want to take a quarter.
State of form
Italy’s defender in the play-offs to reach Russia, Sweden has confirmed his solid team status during the first round of the 2018 World Cup. Indeed, Emil Forsberg’s team-mates started the competition with a narrow success against the South Korea (1-0), before falling narrowly against Germany (2-1 leading to the score), then finally explode Mexico last Wednesday (3-0). Thanks to this great demonstration and these 3 points, the Scandinavians finally won the 1st place of the group F, just in front of the Mexicans.
Author of a surprising first part of competition, Switzerland has not lost a single match in Pool E, winning the 2nd place behind the Brazilians without really shaking. After having beautifully held Brazil in check during the first day (1-1), the players of Vladimir Petkovic chained by a rather convincing victory against Serbia (2-1), before conceding an anecdotic draw against Costa Rica (2-2).
The staff for Sweden – Switzerland
Performing against Mexico, the starting eleven Swedish should start the identical this round of 16. At the managerial level, the Lindelöf-Granqvist pair is still doing a huge job behind, while the creative Forsberg makes the connection with the experienced attack duo Toivonen-Berg. The excellent Augustinsson and Claesson have also earned their places in this squad. Suspended on this 1 / 8th, the essential Larsson will be replaced by Svensson who plays in MLS.
As its opponent of the day, Switzerland has not jostled his habits for this shock. The goalkeeper Sommer will lead a defense that will still be deprived of the usual Lichtsteiner and Schär. Xhaka and Behrami form the pair of recuperators to give good balloons to the offensive Dzemaili, Embolo and Shaqiri. At the scorer’s post, Seferovic holds the rope to become tenured.
Probable compositions for Sweden – Switzerland (appointment at 15h for official compositions):
Sweden: Olsen – Lustig, Lindelöf, Granqvist, Augustinsson – Claesson, Ekdal, Svensson, Forsberg – Berg, Toivonen.
Switzerland: Sommer – Lang, Djourou, Akanji, Ricardo Rodriguez – Behrami, Xhaka – Shakiri, Dzemaili, Embolo (Zuber) – Seferovic.
Prediction Sweden – Switzerland
Difficult to clear a winner between these two European teams of similar level. We see Sweden and Switzerland standing in check until extra time.
Prediction of the Day: Toivonen scorer
Odds: 3.90
Prediction Today: Under 2.5 goals
Odds: 1.35
Prediction of the Day: Draw
Odds: 3.00