Portugal vs Switzerland Lineups, H2H and Score Prediction 2-1
Portugal and Switzerland will compete against each other for a ticket to the next round. Those who qualify will face Morocco or Spain in the quarter-finals.
Portugal did lose 1-2 to South Korea in their last Group H game. However, thanks to the 3-2 wins over Ghana and 2-0 over Uruguay in the previous two matches, Cristiano Ronaldo and his friends have the right to finish in the top positions.
The opponent that Portugal will face in the round of 16 is quite difficult. They will duel with the runner-up of Group G, Switzerland.
In the group stage, Switzerland only lost once, namely 0-1 to champion favorite Brazil in the second match. The rest, Granit Xhaka and his colleagues beat Cameroon 1-0 and Serbia 3-2.
Switzerland has a pretty solid defense and a dangerous attack. Portugal, who on paper are the favourites, will likely have to fight hard if they want to get rid of them.
Lineups Predictions Portugal vs Switzerland
Portugal (4-3-1-2): Diogo Costa; Raphael Guerreiro, Pepe, Ruben Dias, Joao Cancelo; Ruben Neves, William Carvalho, Bernardo Silva; Bruno Fernandes; Cristiano Ronaldo, Joao Felix.
- Coach: Fernando Santos (Portugal)
- Squad info: Nuno Mendes (injured), Danilo Pereira (injured), Otavio (doubtful)
Switzerland (4-2-3-1): Yann Sommer; Ricardo Rodriguez, Nico Elvedi, Manuel Akanji, Silvan Widmer; Granit Xhaka, Remo Freuler; Ruben Vargas, Djibril Sow, Xherdan Shaqiri; Breel Embolo.
- Coach: Murat Yakin (Switzerland)
- Squad info: Renato Steffen (doubtful)
H2H Portugal vs Switzerland
Head-to-head
- meetings: 25
- Portugal wins: 9
- goals Portugal: 34
- draws: 5
- Switzerland wins: 11
- goals Switzerland: 34
Last 5 Meetings
- 12/06/2022 Switzerland 1-0 Portugal (UNL)
- 05/06/2022 Portugal 4-0 Switzerland (UNL)
- 05/06/2019 Portugal 3-1 Switzerland (UNL)
- 10/10/2017 Portugal 2- 0 Switzerland (World Cup qualification)
- 06/09/2016 Switzerland 2-0 Portugal (World Cup qualification)
Last 5 Games Portugal (LWWWL)
- 28/09/22 Portugal 0-1 Spain (UNL)
- 18/11/22 Portugal 4-0 Nigeria (Friendly)
- 24/11/22 Portugal 3-2 Ghana (World Cup)
- 29/11 /22 Portugal 2-0 Uruguay (World Cup)
- 02/12/22 South Korea 2-1 Portugal (World Cup)
Last 5 Games Switzerland (WLWDW)
- 28/09/22 Switzerland 2-1 Czech Republic (UNL)
- 17/11/22 Ghana 2-0 Switzerland (Friendly)
- 24/11/22 Switzerland 1-0 Cameroon (World Cup)
- 28/ 11/22 Brazil 1-0 Switzerland (World Cup)
- 03/12/22 Serbia 2-3 Switzerland (World Cup)
Statistics and Score Predictions
- Portugal won 3 of its last 4 meetings with Switzerland (W3 D0 L1).
- Portugal scored a total of 9 goals and only conceded a total of 2 goals in its last 4 meetings with Switzerland.
- Portugal won 8 of its last 12 matches (W8 D1 L3).
- Portugal always scored at least 2 goals in 8 of the last 12 matches.
- Portugal has only lost 2 times in its last 9 matches in the World Cup (W4 D3 L2).
- Portugal has only kept 2 clean sheets in its last 11 matches at the World Cup.
- Switzerland won 5 of their last 7 matches (W5 D0 L2), in which all 5 wins they won by a margin of 1 goal.
- Switzerland has only kept 2 clean sheets in its last 12 matches.
- Switzerland has only won 3 times in its last 8 matches in the World Cup (W3 D2 L3), in which 3 wins were all wins with a margin of 1 goal.
Final score prediction: Portugal 2-1 Switzerland
