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07/03 00:01 CDT Embolo, Ndoye score and Switzerland moves on at the World Cup
with a 2-0 win over Algeria
Embolo, Ndoye score and Switzerland moves on at the World Cup with a 2-0 win
over Algeria
By ANNE M. PETERSON
AP Soccer Writer
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) --- Breel Embolo and Dan Ndoye both scored and
Switzerland advanced to the round of 16 at the World Cup with a 2-0 victory
over Algeria on Thursday night.
Switzerland will play the winner of Friday's match between Colombia and Ghana
in Kansas City, Missouri. The round-of-16 game is set for next Tuesday in
Vancouver.
Switzerland has not won a knockout-round match since 1938 in France, but in
1954 the team won a playoff game to reach the quarterfinals.
Although the Swiss reached the round of 16 at the past three World Cups, there
was a smaller field of 32 teams in each of those tournaments, and they could
get no further.
Algeria was eliminated after returning to the World Cup for the first time
since 2014, when it advanced to the knockout round but fell to eventual
champion Germany.
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