{"id":97385,"date":"2026-07-04T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/97385\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:55:29","slug":"switzerland-beat-algeria-2-0-to-move-into-world-cup-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/97385\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland beat Algeria 2-0 to move into World Cup last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Reuters \u2013 Breel Embolo scored in the first half, Dan Ndoye tallied at the start of the second half and Switzerland advanced to the World Cup’s round of 16 with a 2-0 victory over\u00a0Algeria\u00a0on Thursday night in Vancouver. <\/p>\n

Issued on: 03\/07\/2026 – 09:14Modified: 03\/07\/2026 – 10:10<\/p>\n

2 min Reading time\n<\/p>\n

Johan Manzambi set up the first goal with a dazzling run and Gregor Kobel made two saves as the Swiss reached the round of 16 for the fourth consecutive World Cup.<\/p>\n

Switzerland<\/a> will face either Colombia<\/a> or Ghana<\/a> on Tuesday in Vancouver. The latter two squads meet Friday night in Kansas City, Mo. The Swiss will be looking to earn their first World Cup<\/a> quarterfinal berth since 1954.<\/p>\n

Luca Zidane made two saves for\u00a0Algeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Switzerland’s first goal came in the 10th minute after a long run by Manzambi.<\/p>\n

As Manzambi neared the goal line, he sent a pass back toward Embolo in front of the net. Embolo was able to get his left leg on the ball for an easy tap-in.<\/p>\n

Switzerland had a solid chance in the 37th minute off a free kick, but Denis Zakaria sent a header high and wide of the right post.<\/p>\n

Ramos strikes late to take Portugal past Croatia into last-16 at World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FIFA<\/p>\n

FIFA World Cup 2026 – Round of 32 – Switzerland v Algeria – BC Place, Vancouver, Canada – July 2, 2026 Switzerland’s Breel Embolo celebrates scoring their first goal REUTERS – Agustin Marcarian <\/p>\n

Switzerland made it 2-0 in the first minute of the second half after\u00a0Algeria’s Rafik Belghali sent a clearance attempt directly to Ndoye.<\/p>\n

Ndoye capitalized by immediately sending a sharp right-footed shot into the left corner of the net.<\/p>\n

The quick goal right after the break took some of the charge out of\u00a0Algeria, who struggled to create chances.<\/p>\n

Switzerland failed to pad the lead in the 81st minute as Zakaria’s centering pass went by a sliding Embolo to a wide-open Fabian Rieder at the far post. But despite the net being wide open, Rieder meekly hit the ball with his left heel and Zidane recovered to make the save.<\/p>\n

In the 88th minute,\u00a0Algeria\u00a0seemed to have a rare chance when Anis Hadj Moussa took a left-footed shot from beyond the box. Kobel knocked the ball aside, but an offside call wiped out the play anyway.<\/p>\n

Switzerland outshot\u00a0Algeria\u00a011-8 and had a 5-2 advantage in shots on target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters \u2013 Breel Embolo scored in the first half, Dan Ndoye tallied at the start of the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[24581,81,307,17,20910],"class_list":["post-97385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-algeria","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-world-cup-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116862997444633062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97385","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=97385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}