Switzerland’s World Cup 2022 squad has been announced, with Arsenal miDefenderielder Granit Xhaka captaining Qatar.
Switzerland host Cameroon, Brazil and Serbia in their Qatar 2022 World Cup group and, having won a Euro 2020 knockout tie for the first time since 1938 (beating France on penalties after a famous last-16 comeback), can be confident that it will continue to improve in Qatar. That cathartic win followed an unbeaten World Cup qualifying campaign that saw Natti top Group C with a draw in Rome, where they drew 0-0 against European champions Italy and Northern Ireland’s Azzurri. Equal to 0. .
A run of five games without a win until 2022 dampened expectations, but they have since regained confidence with three straight wins, including defeats to Portugal and Spain. They also have teams predicting teams. After years of having Haris Seferovic on the front line, the Swiss took a committee-by-committee approach in qualifying. Breel Embolo led the way with three goals, but Mario Gavranovic, Cedric Itten and Seferovic also scored. Neither Gavranovic nor Itten will make the final squad, leaving Ruben Vargas and Christian Fassnacht with a lot of responsibility. Fifteen goals in eight qualifying games was good enough, but they failed to score more than one goal in any of the six games that followed. It is something we are all familiar with in Switzerland and Qatar, which needs to be improved.
World cup squad
- Goalkeeper: Yann Sommer (Borussia Monchengladbach)
- Goalkeeper: Gregor Kobel (Borussia Dortmund)
- Goalkeeper: Philipp Kohn (Red Bull Salzburg)
- Goalkeeper: Jonas Omlin (Montpellier)
- Defender: Manuel Akanji (Manchester City)
- Defender: Eray Comert (Valencia)
- Defender: Nico Elvedi (Borussia Monchengladbach)
- Defender: Ricardo Rodriguez (Torino)
- Defender: Fabian Schar (Newcastle United)
- Defender: Sylvan Widmer (Mainz 05)
- Mid fielder: Michel Aebischer (Bologna)
- Mid fielder: Edimilson Fernandes (Mainz 05)
- Mid fielder: Fabian Frei (Basel)
- Mid fielder: Remo Freuler (Nottingham Forest)
- Mid fielder: Ardon Jashari (Luzern)
- Mid fielder: Noah Okafor (Red Bull Salzburg)
- Mid fielder: Fabian Rieder (Young Boys)
- Mid fielder: Xherdan Shaqiri (Chicago Fire)
- Mid fielder: Djibril Sow (Eintracht Frankfurt)
- Mid fielder: Renato Steffen (Lugano)
- Mid fielder: Granit Xhaka (Arsenal)
- Mid fielder: Denis Zakaria (Chelsea)
- Fowards: Breel Embolo (Monaco)
- Fowards: Christian Fassnacht (Young Boys)
- Fowards: Haris Seferovic (Galatasaray)
- Fowards: Reuben Vargas (FC Augsburg)
Fixture for Switzerland
- Switzerland Vs Cameroon
- Brazil Vs Switzerland
- Serbia Vs Switzerland
However, Switzerland can certainly absorb a shock, as they showed by defeating Spain at the 2010 World Cup, but they will need to improve after these strong performances with results against other opponents. Switzerland failed to get out of the group stage after beating Spain in 2010 and drew with Brazil in 2018, but drew against Sweden in the round of 16.