Why Premier League star fumed at Irankunda in Socceroos\u2019 final World Cup warm-up<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe have to be careful, we saw in the team sequence. That\u2019s why it was a good friendly game against a strong team.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Swiss qualified top of UEFA\u2019s Group B ahead of Kosovo, Slovenia and Sweden and he says their goal against Qatar, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Canada is to top their group.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course I have an experienced team, good quality players, and we have the target to be the first in this group.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Socceros celebrate their equaliser against Switzerland. <\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cThis team, we want to always play the best game, we want to play the best World Cup for a Swiss team \u2026 that\u2019s why we want to play for every game for victory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Playing Australia was part of his preparation; so too was the midday kickoff.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time to play, it\u2019s a little bit different to prepare morning and night (for the) players.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was good to play, also at the same time, of course the quality of our game after 20 minutes lasted a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dynamic of the game, 20 minutes was perfect, we had a lot of chance and this is what I can grow from my team. But we had many mistakes that wasn\u2019t to accept in our game.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the exact moment Australia\u2019s game swung in a different direction as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur game was very positive, but we didn\u2019t finish our chances. And then after 20 minutes, 25 minutes, when you lose a little bit of control and mistakes, also the pitch was not so wet, how we like it, but this is normal.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Now we know) next week at this time will be the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I\u2019m good to know how it works next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a positive game with many chances but also at the end, no injuries and we can keep going on next week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, CA \u2014 Switzerland boss Murat Yakin said the Socceroos gave him just the friendly he had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[20914,17],"class_list":["post-78860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-murat-yakin","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116705895890518815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n