UEFA EURO 2016 MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Pierre Mauroy - Lille Métropole Sunday 19 June 2016 - 21.00CET Group A - Matchday 3 Switzerland #SUIFRA France Last updated 09/07/2016 18:35CET UEFA EURO 2016 OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 5 Head coach 7 Match officials 8 Competition facts 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Team facts 15 Legend 17 1 Switzerland - France Sunday 19 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille Métropole Previous meetings Head to Head FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Džemaili 81, Xhaka 87; Giroud 17, Matuidi Salvador De 20/06/2014 GS-FT Switzerland - France 2-5 18, Valbuena 40, Bahia Benzema 67, Sissoko 73 FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 13/06/2006 GS-FT France - Switzerland 0-0 Stuttgart 08/10/2005 QR (GS) Switzerland - France 1-1 Berne Magnin 79; Cissé 52 26/03/2005 QR (GS) France - Switzerland 0-0 Paris UEFA EURO 2004 Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vonlanthen 26; 21/06/2004 GS-FT Switzerland - France 1-3 Coimbra Zidane 20, Henry 76, 84 Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA EURO Switzerland - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 France - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 FIFA* Switzerland 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 4 0 3 1 3 6 France 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 4 1 3 0 6 3 Friendlies Switzerland - - - - - - - - - - - - 32 12 6 14 56 58 France - - - - - - - - - - - - 32 14 6 12 58 56 Total Switzerland 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 37 12 9 16 60 67 France 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 2 1 0 37 16 9 12 67 60 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Switzerland - France Sunday 19 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille Métropole Match background Switzerland will hope for a marked improvement on their only previous final tournament meetings with France as the neighbours reconvene for their last UEFA EURO 2016 Group A match. Previous meetings • Switzerland's record in 37 games against France is W12 D9 L16, but they have yet to win a competitive encounter with Les Bleus (W0 D3 L2). • After 32 friendly fixtures between 1905 and 2003, their first competitive meeting was in their final group match at UEFA EURO 2004, when Jacques Santini's France defeated Jakob Kuhn's Switzerland 3-1. Zinédine Zidane and Thierry Henry (two) scored the France goals, while Switzerland's consolation came from Johan Vonlanthen, who became the EURO finals' youngest ever marksman at 18 years 141 days. • The teams for that game in Coimbra on 18 June 2004 were: Switzerland: Stiel, Henchoz (Magnin 85), M Yakin, Vogel, Cabanas, Wicky, H Yakin (Huggel 60), Gygax (Rama 85), Spycher, Müller, Vonlanthen. France: Barthez, Lizarazu, Vieira, Makelele, Pirès, Zidane, Henry, Silvestre, Thuram, Sagnol (Gallas 46, Boumsong 90+2), Trezeguet (Saha 75). • The countries shared two draws en route to qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where they were paired again and played out another stalemate in their opening group encounter in Stuttgart. • It was a different story when they faced off in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Didier Deschamps' France running out 5-2 victors against Ottmar Hitzfeld's Switzerland with five different goalscorers. • The teams for that game in Salvador on 20 June 2014 were: Switzerland: Benaglio, Lichtsteiner, Rodriguez, Inler, Djourou, Von Bergen (Senderos 9), Shaqiri, Behrami (Džemaili 46), Seferovic (Drmic 69), Xhaka, Mehmedi. France: Lloris, Debuchy, Evra, Cabaye, Varane, Sakho (Koscielny 66), Sissoko, Matuidi, Giroud (Pogba 63), Valbuena (Griezmann 82), Benzema. EURO facts – Switzerland • Two Swiss clubs have played UEFA competition games in Lille – Basel lost 2-0 to Lille in the UEFA Cup round of 32 in February 2005, while Grasshoppers held LOSC 1-1 in UEFA Champions League qualifying in August 2014. Swiss international Michael Lang played for the visitors in the latter game. • Switzerland's record in qualifying was W7 D0 L3, with two of those defeats coming against Group E winners England. • This is Switzerland's first continental final tournament since they co-hosted UEFA EURO 2008 with Austria. They lost their opening two games and bowed out at the group stage despite a 2-0 triumph over Portugal in their final match. • That success against Portugal was Switzerland's first win in nine EURO finals fixtures (W1 D2 L6). They have yet to make it through the group stage in three attempts. EURO facts – France • France have won all four of their games in and around Lille and have not conceded in the city for over 100 years: 4-3 v Belgium 1914, 2-0 v Tunisia 1978, 2-0 v Armenia 1996, 8-0 v Jamaica 2014. • France are one of only three nations to have won a EURO as final tournament hosts, along with Spain (1964) and Italy (1968). Coach and player links • Play together: Gelson Fernandes (Switzerland) & Benoît Costil (France) – Rennes Stephan Lichtsteiner (Switzerland) & Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba (France) – Juventus • Have played together: Stephan Lichtsteiner (Switzerland) and Kingsley Coman (France) – Juventus, 2014–15 • Switzerland's François Moubandje – who turns 26 on 21 June – plays in France for Toulouse. • Lichtsteiner knows Lille well, having represented LOSC from 2005–08. • Switzerland's Rodriguez was in the Wolfsburg side that denied a Manchester United team featuring France's Morgan Schneiderlin and Anthony Martial a place in this season's UEFA Champions League round of 16. • On 4 August 2015, Martial scored in Monaco's 4-0 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round win against a Young Boys side containing Switzerland's Steve von Bergen. 3 Switzerland - France Sunday 19 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille Métropole • Switzerland's Admir Mehmedi scored in both of Leverkusen's 2015/16 UEFA Champions League group games against a Roma team including France's Lucas Digne – the matches ended in a 4-4 draw and a 3-2 win for Leverkusen. • Switzerland goalkeeper Yann Sommer (Borussia Mönchengladbach) came up against France's Pogba, Evra (Juventus), Bacary Sagna (Manchester City) and Adil Rami (Sevilla) in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage. • Granit Xhaka also played in those games against Sevilla for Mönchengladbach. 4 Switzerland - France Sunday 19 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille Métropole Squad list Switzerland Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Yann Sommer 17/12/1988 27 Mönchengladbach - 8 0 2 0 20 - 12 Marwin Hitz 18/09/1987 28 Augsburg - 1 0 0 0 2 - 21 Roman Bürki 14/11/1990 25 Dortmund - 1 0 0 0 5 - Defenders 2 Stephan Lichtsteiner 16/01/1984 32 Juventus - 8 0 2 0 83 5 3 François Moubandje 21/06/1990 25 Toulouse - 3 0 0 0 11 - 4 Nico Elvedi 30/09/1996 19 Mönchengladbach - 0 0 0 0 1 - 5 Steve von Bergen 10/06/1983 33 Young Boys - 3 0 0 0 50 - 6 Michael Lang 08/02/1991 25 Basel - 2 1 1 0 18 2 13 Ricardo Rodríguez 25/08/1992 23 Wolfsburg - 8 0 2 0 39 - 20 Johan Djourou 18/01/1987 29 Hamburg - 8 1 2 0 62 2 22 Fabian Schär 20/12/1991 24 Hoffenheim * 6 2 2 1 22 6 Midfielders 8 Fabian Frei 08/01/1989 27 Mainz - 1 0 1 0 9 1 10 Granit Xhaka 27/09/1992 23 Mönchengladbach * 8 1 2 0 45 6 11 Valon Behrami 19/04/1985 31 Watford * 7 0 2 0 68 2 14 Denis Zakaria 20/11/1996 19 Young Boys - 0 0 0 0 2 - 15 Blerim Džemaili 12/04/1986 30 Genoa - 7 1 2 0 50 6 16 Gelson Fernandes 02/09/1986 29 Rennes - 1 0 1 0 57 2 23 Xherdan Shaqiri 10/10/1991 24 Stoke - 9 4 2 0 55 17 Forwards 7 Breel Embolo 14/02/1997 19 Basel * 5 1 2 0 12 1 9 Haris Seferović 22/02/1992 24 Frankfurt - 8 3 2 0 32 7 17 Shani Tarashaj 07/02/1995 21 Grasshoppers - 0 0 1 0 5 - 18 Admir Mehmedi 16/03/1991 25 Leverkusen - 8 1 2 1 44 5 19 Eren Derdiyok 12/06/1988 28 Kasımpaşa - 2 1 0 0 52 10 Coach - Vladimir Petković 15/08/1963 52 - 10 0 2 0 21 - 5 Switzerland - France Sunday 19 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille Métropole France Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Hugo Lloris 26/12/1986 29 Tottenham - 0 0 2 0 77 - 16 Steve Mandanda 28/03/1985 31 Marseille - 0 0 0 0 22 - 23 Benoît Costil 03/07/1987 28 Rennes - 0 0 0 0 - - Defenders 2 Christophe Jallet 31/10/1983 32 Lyon - 0 0 0 0 11 1 3 Patrice Evra 15/05/1981 35 Juventus - 0 0 2 0 75 - 4 Adil Rami 27/12/1985 30 Sevilla - 0 0 2 0 30 1 13 Eliaquim Mangala 13/02/1991 25 Man.