Switzerland national team take on the visitors Portugal in the first round of qualifying camping for the World Cup 2018. The match will be played at St. Jacob Park on Tuesday, September 6th in Basel.
Switzerland national team became regular participant of main stages of tournaments and proved they are capable of beating any opponents. Switzerland showed quite successful results in France, beating Albania, 1-0, drawing with Romania, 1-1 and France, 0-0. The team was close to advancing for the quarterfinals but lost to Poland on penalties in the first match of knockout phase. So the team is on five-match undefeated streak in all competition before the start of the road to Russia.
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Portugal gained the title of the best team in the continent this summer, winning Euro-2016. Fernando Santos’ men we unite as one and the head coach was the one who made decision to switch to defensive football after the group stage. Exactly this decision allowed Portugal to take four wins in playoffs after three draws in the group stage and become the best team in Europe. We saw two different Portugal teams in France. One was attacking one but quite unsuccessful, while another one showed boring football but took the trophy. Portugal are on nine-match undefeated run but only one of them ended with victory after full time (semifinal against Wales, 2-0).
Neither of the teams has obvious advantage in the head-to-heads as Switzerland won three times, Portugal – four, and other four games were draws. We can expect to see defensive Portugal in away match against quite strong Switzerland and opponents shouldn’t combine number of goals.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 goals.
