The Swiss national team overcame the hardest selection sieve not without difficulty, but managed to take first place in the group with Italy and leave the reigning European champions without the Mundial. The misfire of the Italians in the parallel match helped, however, the Swiss should be given their due. They never lost. In the League of Nations, the team showed itself extremely ambiguously. On the one hand, they failed the entire first round. On the other hand, they managed to win three final meetings and take third place in the elite division quartet, with only two points missing before the victory. Murat Yakin’s wards were not particularly impressed in the test match before the start of the World Championship, losing to Ghana (0:2), but they can shoot, because there are no serious personnel losses.
The Cameroon national team with great difficulty made it to the World Cup. First, in the final round of the second stage, the team beat the formidable Cote d’Ivoire (1:0). Then there was the most difficult two-legged confrontation with Algeria (0:1 and 2:1), in which two goals were not counted against the opponent. At the end of the overtime, the Algerians went to Mundial. Only in the 124th minute Ekambi scored and, due to a guest goal, brought the country to the main football forum of the four-year period. At the home continental championship, the Cameroonians were content with only the third line, which they managed to pull out in a penalty shootout in a duel with Burkina Faso (4:3, P). And until the 71st minute they lost by three goals, but miraculously managed to win back. Before the start of the tournament, the national team drew twice in friendly matches, ending the game with scores 1:1 against Panama and Jamaica. More accurate football prediction can be obtained from the link provided.
