FIFA World Cup 2022: Here Are The Top Facts From Switzerland - Cameroon Clash

Cameroon have kept a clean sheet in just one of their last 20 matches at the World Cup.

Players in action.

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New Delhi: Switzerland started on a winning note in the FIFA World Cup 2022 in a Group G match. The Swiss outplayed Cameroon. And won the match by 1-0.  Breel Embolo starred and scored the only goal in his first World Cup goal against Cameroon.

Facts about Switzerland - Cameroon clash:

1. The average age of Switzerland’s starting XI for this match was 28 years and 238 days, their second-oldest in a World Cup game, only surpassed in 1950 against Brazil (28 years, 314 days).

2. Breel Embolo, who was born in Cameroon, has scored in each of his last three competitive appearances for Switzerland – this is his best such run for the national team.

3. Xherdan Shaqiri has been directly involved in exactly half of Switzerland’s 24 goals across their last four appearances at major tournaments (EUROS + World Cup), scoring eight goals and assisting a further four.

4. 12 of Switzerland’s last 15 goals at the World Cup have been scored after half-time (80%), with the average time of their goals being the 60th minute during this period.

5. Cameroon have kept a clean sheet in just one of their last 20 matches at the World Cup, this after not conceding in three of their first four games at the tournament.

6. Cameroon have lost each of their last eight games at the World Cup; only Mexico have ever lost more games in a row in the competition’s history (nine between 1930 & 1958).

7. Switzerland are unbeaten on MD1 in each of their last six World Cup participations (W3 D3), last being defeated in their opening match back in 1966 against Germany.