“Switzerland secured their first win at the 2026 World Cup by beating Bosnia and Herzegovina 4-1 through a late goal barrage largely from a pair of substitutes to ease fears that their profligacy against Qatar in the opener would cost them. Johan Manzambi and Rubén Vargas came off the bench together in the 71st minute and by the final whistle, they had scored the three goals to clinch a victory that put the Group B favorites on course for the knockout phase. Bosnia were reduced to 10 men in the 80th minute, when the score was 1-0 to Switzerland, after Tarik Muharemović was sent off for bringing down Breel Embolo as last man. …”
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Super subs spring Switzerland to life in World Cup win vs. Bosnia; Xhaka responds to scrutiny
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“A 1-1 draw felt like a fair result as the Czech Republic and South Africa walked out of Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Thursday. It was not a good version of World Cup football, though. Both teams struggled to attack with any level of cohesion. In a group that features South Korea and co-hosts Mexico, the European and African sides look the weakest of the four. 
“Davinson Sanchez had been there in 2018. So had Johan Mojica and Jefferson Lerma. James Rodriguez? He’d been there in 2018 and 2014 — the same as Santiago Arias, David Ospina, Juan Fernando Quintero, Camilo Vargas. They had been absent eight years — eight painful years — but Colombia’s squad was positively dripping with World Cup history. They carried stories with them, especially the class of 2014: thrashing Japan in the grasslands of Cuiaba; Rodriguez’s volley against Uruguay at the Maracana; quarter-final heartache against hosts Brazil. All of it, the wistfulness and the war stories, the nostalgia and the nagging aches, came with them to Mexico for their Group K opener against Uzbekistan. …”
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