UEFA Euro 2020 Preview: Switzerland vs Spain. Probable Lineups, Fixtures, Predictions. Team News, Stats

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The winners of this tie will play Belgium or Italy in the semi-finals at Wembley on 6 July

The first ticket to the semifinals of the UEFA European Championship will be played between Switzerland and Spain on Friday night. The match will take place on July 2, starting at 21:30 IST.

This Euro semifinal match should be very hard-fought, it is interesting in terms of intrigue. The Swiss know how to play well in the role of ‘underdog’, while Spain has massive problems with teams that play mostly in the defensive style, even though they are leaders in creating chances.

Parimatchnews prepared the exclusive preview and prediction special for our readers, after this piece you will know everything to place a victorious bet. 

Switzerland News & Current Form:

The Swiss had a problematic start to the European championship, but they eventually made it to the playoffs. And no one would say it was undeserved!

Switzerland proved everything in the 1/8 finals when they managed to snatch a win in the nearly lost match against the World Champion France (3:3). Read about it below.

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In the upcoming game, the Swiss team will clearly play defensive with almost the entire squad at their half. However, the counterattacking game of Switzerland is pretty good too. You can’t say that the nominal hosts have players of the highest level, but each shows a very decent level of football.

The fact that Switzerland managed to beat France is already a matter of respect. And it shows that there is no fear at all. It will probably be even easier against Spain.

The Swiss are in a win-win situation. If they get through, they will be superheroes, if they lose, no one will dare to throw stones at the sympathetic team – they have already made the history.

Spain News & Current Form:

The Spanish team showed very bright football against the Croatians. But that game showed a lot of weaknesses of the upcoming match favorites. 

First of all, we are talking about their defense. There is room for excessive complacency: Spain clearly underestimates almost all of their opponents, which turns into a rapid counterattack by any opponent, whether it is Poland or Croatia. Switzerland, with its rather fast front players, is unlikely to be an exception here.

In the opponent’s half of the field, Spain certainly has very good prospects. The team can create chances, but, against a ‘wall-deaf’ defense, a nominally visiting team tends to have a lot of trouble. It’s not always possible to solve this puzzle and find a key to score, and we certainly can’t expect a big-margin win here.

Switzerland vs Spain Head-To-Head Record: 

The opponents have crossed paths eight times, only one time the Swiss won, though even that loss did the Spaniards good in the final part of the World Cup 2010. After that failure, “Red Fury” has won all the matches at the tournament, becoming the world champions for the first time.

Some of the players from that legendary team have already finished their careers

Some of the players from that legendary team have already finished their careers

Switzerland last matches (all competitions): W-W-D-L-W-W

Spain last matches (all competitions):  D-W-D-D-W-W

Switzerland vs Spain  Predicted XI: 

Switzerland Predicted XI (3-4-1-2): Yann Sommer, Nico Elvedi, Manuel Akanji, Ricardo Rodriguez, Kevin Mbabu, Remo Freuler, Denis Zakaria, Steven Zuber, Xherdan Shaqiri, Haris Seferovic, Breel Embolo 

Spain Predicted XI (4-3-3): Unai Simon, Cesar Azpilicueta, Eric Garcia, Aymeric Laporte, Jordi Alba, Koke, Sergio Busquets, Pedri, Ferran Torres, Alvaro Morata, Pablo Sarabia

Statistical preview of the match Switzerland vs Spain:

  • Recently the Swiss team has been playing well against Spain, but in general, the statistics are not so bright – one win, 5 draws, 18 defeats.
  • Spain has lost only one of its last 28 matches (17 wins, 10 draws). 
  • La Roja have scored 10 goals in their last two games and after a rocky start to the Euros, look to be hitting their stride.
  • The absence of Granit Xhaka is a huge blow for Switzerland and his ban may cost his side a spot in the semi-finals of Euro 2020.

Switzerland vs Spain Prediction: 

Bookmaker Parimatch gives preference to the Spanish side in the upcoming match (1.31 to qualify). And it is absolutely logical. After all, the preferred team got noticeably stronger players, and the statement is relevant in absolutely all positions.

Spain will possess the ball a lot, but that does not mean that the visitors will create a lot of chances and score many goals. As practice has shown, Spain is better when it has free spaces. Switzerland is well aware of this and is unlikely to give much freedom to the Spanish players.

The game will be quite nervous and stubborn – the teams recently lost a lot of energy. Including moral one. 

After the Swiss sent the World Champions home, you can probably expect anything from them. And if the sensations continue, this could be the most unpredictable championship yet.

But we’re still confident that Luis Enrique’s team will win at all costs and progress.

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ParimatchNews staff prediction: 

We decided to choose an attractive but realistic bet since betting on a low-odd win gives us practically nothing.

Most likely, the teams will not score a huge number of goals due to some tiredness after extra-time matches in the previous stage. But they have a lot to prove, so we expect an exchange of goals at least as it will be a heated battle.

We say: Both teams to score – Yes and Total Under 3.5 (Parimatch offers 3.60 for this scenario)