Portugal vs Switzerland, FIFA World Cup Qatar Round of 16 tie is scheduled for Tuesday 6th December from 21:00 at the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Lusail and will be televised live on TVR 1.

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The first qualifying round of the competition in the Persian Gulf concludes with a match between Portugal and Switzerland, which will be a test for any player.

Portugal won Group H to secure top spot after their opening two matches, 3-2 to Ghana and 2-0 to Uruguay, meaning their last-game defeat, 1-2 to South Korea, didn’t affect them as much as their record point of view list.

Coach Fernando Santos will also bank on Cristiano Ronaldo, who just became the first player in history to score in five World Cup games.

In addition, CR7 is the youngest (World Cup 2006, goal against Iran, 21 years and 132 days) and the oldest (World Cup 2022, goal against Ghana, 37 years and 295 days) Portugal’s World Cup goalscorer.

However, the Lusitanians also have other top players such as Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United), Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid), Rafael Leao (Milan), Bernardo Silva, Joao Cancelo and Ruben Diaz (all Manchester City). or Vithigny (Paris Saint-Germain).

Switzerland finished 2nd in Group G after 1-0 with Cameroon, 0-1 with Brazil and 3-2 in the decider with Serbia, in which they led 1-0 before coming back from 1-2.

In their fifth consecutive participation in the World Cup, the Swiss made it to the 1/8 finals for the third time after the 2014 and 2018 tournaments, but they did not make it to the “quarters” since the 1954 World Cup.

The stars of the team trained by Turkish-born coach Murat Yakin are Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka, both of Kosovo origin, and Bryl Embolo, a striker born in Cameroon.

The winner of the Portugal v Spain match will play the winner of the Morocco v Spain match in the quarter-finals, which is scheduled for Tuesday, December 6, from 17:00 at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan.

So far, these two teams have met 11 times, with Portugal winning six times, Switzerland three times, with two more matches ending in a draw.

The last two head-to-head games came in the 2022 Nations League, with each of the two national teams beating Portugal 4-0 and Switzerland 1-0 at home.

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