the Swiss way to Euro 2008

medias are speculating with about a 25 to 27 names

 

I'd go for

Benaglio
Zubi
Coltorti
(sub: Zibung)

Magnin
Spycher
Senderos
Djourou
Eggimann
von Bergen
Behrami
Lichtsteiner
(sub: Grichting)

Inler
Gelson
Abdi
Yakin
Barnetta
Stocker (for his current form as left midfielder in combination with Streller)
Vonlanthen
Gygax
(subs: Cabanas, Ziegler, Chiumiento, Huggel)

Frei
Streller
Nkufo
Derdyiok
(sub: rather Chiumiento, then another striker)

edit: Muller played 65min with Lyons reserves in Paris today and Kuhn was watching the match

 

he had also a very good game against Zurich.

of course, he was lucky Chipperfield and Degen are injured.

 

26names in the provisional squad:

GK:
Diego Benaglio, Fabio Coltorti, Pascal Zuberbühler.

DF:
Valon Behrami, Philipp Degen, Johan Djourou, Mario Eggimann, Stéphane Grichting, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Ludovic Magnin, Patrick Müller, Philippe Senderos, Christoph Spycher, Steve von Bergen.

MF:
Tranquillo Barnetta, Ricardo Cabanas, Gelson Fernandes, Daniel Gygax, Benjamin Huggel, Gökhan Inler, Hakan Yakin, Johan Vonlanthen.

ST:
Eren Derdiyok, Alex Frei, Blaise Nkufo, Marco Streller.
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2 of the 6 central defenders will have to stay at home and evtl. one guy on the right side Ph.Degen-Behrami-Lichsteiner or Cabanas. The fact Kuhn visited Muller in Paris means a lot to Muller, so he surely would try to pay back at Euro. Then, he is the only one with who Senderos really feels in confidence. So, if he picks Muller, then it's probably to partner Senderos in the starting XI. If he doesn't pick Muller, then he has yet to find the perfect pair for central defence.

 

Dzemaili, D.Degen and Ziegler are on call

then, Dzemaili, Ziegler, Djourou and Derdyiok will play with the U-21 against Portugal. Dunno if this is a good idea as we have Portugal in our group

 

Coltorti out, Jakupovic replaces him

 

if Nkufo can't play, I guess Kuhn will call up Ziegler as second left midfielder

on the right side there are currently 5 players, but without Nkufo Vonlanthen could be considered also as 4th striker...

 

well, bit of a surprise, but makes more sense then Lustrinelli. Häberli could play alongside Yakin, while there is no Chiumiento for Lustrinelli...

 

looks like they don't want to take any risk with Von Bergen

 

against Slovakia withouth Barnetta nor Degen nor Spycher:

Benaglio
Lichsteiner-Müller-Senderos-Magnin
Gygax/Behrami-Inler-Gelson-Vonlanthen
Streller-Frei

against the Czech at Euro it should prob. look like this:

Benaglio
Degen-Müller-Senderos-Magnin
Vonlanthen-Inler-Gelson-Barnetta
Streller-Frei

 

a question: who do you think will have to stay at home?
1) Lichtsteiner, Behrami, Gygax, Cabanas?
2) Grichting or Eggimann?

 

three did not play a minute today: Eggimann, Huggel and Häberli. As both Grichting and Djourou played a few minutes, this was a sign for Eggimann he has to stay at home. I'd like to mention Senderos played the first pass in 4 of the 5 most dangerous swiss attacks today. In the first half he didn't dare, but he looks a class better alongside Müller then in other matches.

Then, as Eggimann maybe Häberli has to stay at home as well. We can go with Frei, Streller and Derdyiok in attack as there still are Vonlanthen and Yakin in support of attack.

Behrami, Vonlanthen and Müller all took their chances. Maybe Kuhn is going with Behrami on the right flank