Who will match their best FIFA World Cup performance? We look ahead to Tuesday’s clash in Vancouver with our Switzerland vs Colombia prediction and preview.
Switzerland vs Colombia: The Key Insights
Colombia are favourites to win inside 90 minutes with the Opta supercomputer, doing so in 41.9% of pre-match simulations. Colombia beat Switzerland 2-0 in their only previous FIFA World Cup meeting in 1994, and are Opta’s favourites for victory here at 41.9%. Switzerland are unbeaten in their last 10 competitive internationals (W7 D3).Switzerland and Colombia are aiming to match their best FIFA World Cup performances when they face off in the last-16 on Tuesday.
Both former quarter-finalists on football’s biggest stage, one of them will add another last-eight appearance to their CV at BC Place Vancouver.
It is a venue Switzerland have become familiar with, as this will be their third consecutive match there during this tournament.
After beating co-hosts Canada 2-1 in their Group B decider, Murat Yakin’s side defeated Algeria 2-0 in the round of 32, as goals from Johan Manzambi‘s brilliant run and assist for Embolo was his fifth direct goal involvement at this World Cup (three goals, two assists). Manzambi is the youngest player to achieve the feat on record, at 20 years and 261 days old, while the only man under the age of 21 to register more than him in a single edition in the last 60 years was Germany’s Thomas Müller in 2010 (five goal, three assists).
Embolo’s strike was his fourth at the finals, with only Josef Hügi (six) and Xherdan Shaqiri (five) bettering that tally for Nati, who have won three or more matches at a single World Cup for the first time.
It is also the first time they have recorded three successive victories at the finals. Yakin, meanwhile, has overseen five wins from eight World Cup games in charge, and now boasts the most victories and best win percentage (62.5%) of any Switzerland boss.
Another win here would see the Swiss through to the quarter-finals for the first time since they hosted the tournament in 1954 – and their fourth overall (also 1934 and 1938).
Colombia, meanwhile, are aiming to follow in the footsteps of the class of 2014, of which six-goal Luis Suárez – a sixth-minute replacement for
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