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While many of Europe’s biggest footballing nations set the pace in qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™, Switzerland delivered the biggest shock of the campaign so far.
Only the winners of each of the nine European Zone groups will qualify directly for the finals in Russia, while the eight best second-place finishers will contest play-off matches over two legs to determine another four World Cup participants. Although the leaders of eight of the nine pools have emerged largely as expected, Switzerland are the sole notable exception to this rule after pushing aside European champions Portugal to end the year with maximum points in Group B. The newly crowned UEFA EURO 2016 winners were dispatched 2-0 in Basel in early September, thanks to goals from Breel Embolo and Admir Mehmedi.
“I can sense a determination to take first place from Portugal,” Swiss national team coach Vladimir Petkovic announced before the match – and he was proved right. With Portugal going..
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