Switzerland banished their Round-of-16 demons after outlasting Colombia to reach the 2026 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Switzerland had suffered three consecutive exits in the last 16 and five in their past six appearances at the same stage of the showpiece tournament, but the European nation prevailed 4-3 on penalties following a 0-0 draw with Colombia in Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday (AEST).<\/p>\n
QFS:\u00a0Who has qualified for the World Cup\u2019s quarter-finals?<\/a><\/p>\n Ruben Vargas scored the winning penalty as Switzerland advanced to their first World Cup quarter-final since 1954, earning a date with Lionel Messi\u2019s defending champions Argentina.<\/p>\n He spared Manuel Akanji\u2019s blushes after the Switzerland defender skied his attempt over the crossbar as he dropped to the floor in despair, having seen Colombia captain Davison Sanchez cannoned his effort into the bar.<\/p>\n Gregor Kobel made a huge save, though, to deny Cucho Hernandez as Vargas went on to send the Swiss through to the last eight.<\/p>\n \u201cPenalties is an absolute lottery. Some awful penalties, some very cool penalties,\u201d former England international Dion Dublin said via BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n \u201cThe most important one was Ruben Vargas, cool head, sticks it in the corner, Switzerland get through.<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n \u201cHow? I don\u2019t know but they are through. When it gets to penalties, it is a bit of a lottery.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018SURELY THIS IS NOT WITHIN VAR\u2019S REMIT?!\u2019\u00a0Why were Egypt denied their second goal for a foul down the other end of the field?<\/a> It comes after Colombia wasted a golden opportunity to take the lead in extra time.<\/p>\n Jaminton Campaz failed to convert in a one-on-one situation in the latter stages of extra time in a moment described as \u201cmiss of the tournament\u201d by LaLiga London on X.<\/p>\n \u201cCampaz has got the goalkeeper to beat from eight yards, he should be scoring with that left foot of his,\u201d Dublin said. \u201cThat is possibly the best chance of the game and that falls to a quality player who gets it all wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Co-commentator Matt Holland added: \u201cHe will look back and thing if his team don\u2019t get through to the quarter-finals, that chance he had\u2026 one on one with the goalkeeper. <\/p>\n \u201cHe will be living that through his mind forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland banished their Round-of-16 demons after outlasting Colombia to reach the 2026 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals. Switzerland had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[10780,23396,49186,49187,41,17],"class_list":["post-99381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-colombia","tag-gregor-kobel","tag-jaminton-campaz","tag-ruben-varga","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116881321156524529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99381","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=99381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
REPORT:\u00a0Argentina come from TWO GOALS DOWN with 11 minutes to go to STUN Egypt in 3-2 epic, Messi makes more history<\/a><\/p>\n