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0¹ VARGAS was put clear by ZESIGER and he turned the 'keeper but struck his shot over. 2¹ ZESIGER headed wide. 5¹ A shot from EBOSELE was smothered by SOMMER. 10¹ SCALES shot wide. 11¹ A perfect shot from OKAFOR was dealt with by a good stop from BOSSIN. 14¹ GOAL!! A shot from OMERAGIC deflected off the boot of SMALLBONE and raced past the helpless Irish 'keeper and into the net. (1-0 Switzerland) 19¹ GOAL!! As OMOBAMIDELE was attempting to hold back CÖMERT the ball fell to VARGAS who blasted the ball into the top corner. (2-0 Switzerland) 23¹ McGRATH scuffed a simple chance. 24¹ GOAL!! A shot from LOTOMBA which BOSSIN managed to block was deemed over the line by the linesman and the referee gave the goal. (3-0 Switzerland) 27¹ ZAKARIA dribbled past JOHNSTON and rattled a weak shot well wide. 28¹ McGRATH flicked a deadly shot wide from long range. 30¹ A mix up in the Irish defence enabled NDOYE to crack an effort over. 1² GOAL!! ZAKARIA hit a beautiful twenty yard shot past the hapless Irish 'keeper. (4-0 Switzerland) 5² A lovely effort from McGRATH scraped the top of the crossbar. 11² A poor strike from LOTOMBA bounced agonisingly wide. 14² GOAL!! A neat one-two left NDOYE clear and he made no mistake by instinctively flicking the ball beyond the oncoming 'keeper. (5-0 Switzerland) 18² SCALES galloped through the Swiss defence but shot straight at the 'keeper. 20² A good ball from OKAFOR on the right fell to NDOYE who mishit his shot wide. 24² A corner bobbled toward XHAKA who touched an effort just beyond the far post. 26² A shot from COLLINS seemed a certain goal but the Swiss 'keeper managed to force the ball clear. 32² A header from IDAH was booted off the line by ELVEDI. 38² ZAKARIA knocked the ball to NDOYE who turned it wide. 39² SMALLBONE beat ZAKARIA and hit the ball to McGRATH who blasted his shot wide. 41² GOAL!! A great solo effort from AMDOUNI who beat a number of defenders before rocketing the ball into the net. (6-0 Switzerland)

Switzerland

Line-ups (c)Yann SOMMER 7½ 1 7  Liam BOSSIN Nico ELVEDI 8  2 6½ Festy EBOSELE Cédric ZESIGER 6½ 3 6  Liam SCALES Granit XHAKA 7½ 4 6½ Josh CULLEN(c) Becir OMERAGIC 7½ 5 7  Nathan COLLINS Eray CÖMERT 6½ 6 6  Andrew OMOBAMIDELE Jordan LOTOMBA 6  7 6½ Will SMALLBONE Dan NDOYE 7  8 6  Mikey JOHNSTON (p)Ruben VARGAS 4  9 7  Evan FERGUSON(p) (f)Denis ZAKARIA 7½ 10 5½ Jamie McGRATH(f) Noah OKAFOR 7  11 6  Adam IDAH Manager Kevin MBABU    12    Charles DUNNE Gregor KOBEL    13    Sean McDERMOTT Zeki AMDOUNI 7  14    Jonathan HAYES Haris SEFEROVIC    15 6  Darragh LENIHAN Andi ZEQIRI    16    Michael OBAFEMI

Republic of Ireland

Statistics

Switzerland 6 Republic of Ireland 0 (Half-time: 3-0) Smallbone 14¹ (og), Vargas 19¹, Lotomba 24¹, Zakaria 1², Ndoye 14², Amdouni 41² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession   VargasóAmdouni 21² ScalesóLenihan 27²         4 4 11 4 6 6 7 4 8 5 15 9 1 3 57% 43% ¶ Man of the match: Nico Elvedi ¶