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Qatar v Switzerland team news: Widmer benched

13 June 2026 118 comments
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It’s ‘favourites v rank outsiders’ in Group B today as Switzerland face Qatar.

Kick-off in San Francisco is at 20:00 BST.

TEAM NEWS

Switzerland’s five most-owned players in Fantasy FIFA World Cup 2026 all start:

That includes Breel Embolo ($7.5m), who briefly had visa issues in the run-up to the World Cup.

Anyone who tried to save $0.1m by going for Silvan Widmer ($4.2m) over Nico Elvedi ($4.3m) will be disappointed, however: the former is benched tonight.

We’ll wait to see how Switzerland line up but it looks like Michel Aebischer ($5.9m) may be at right wing-back.

Gregor Kobel ($4.7m), in 6% of Fantasy squads, is the only player on show tonight who won’t qualify for Scouting Bonus.

There are certainly no Qatar players threatening to reach the dreaded 5% threshold.

Only one of their starting XI, Jassem Gaber ($5.0m), features in more than 0.1% of Fantasy teams.

LINE-UPS

Qatar XI: Abunada, Al Oui, Miguel, Khoukhi, El Amin, Gaber, Madibo, Laye, Edmilson Jr, Abdurisag, Afif.

Subs: Zakaria, Barsham, Lucas Mendes, Hatem, Alaaeldin, Muntari, Al Haydos, Boudiaf, Al Ganehi, Al Brake, Ali, Fatehi, Jamshid, Al Hussain, Al Manai.

Switzerland XI: Kobel, Elvedi, Akanji, Zakaria, Rodríguez, Xhaka, Freuler, Aebischer, Vargas, Ndoye, Embolo.

Subs: Mvogo, Keller, Muheim, Widmer, Manzambi, Jashari, Sow, Fassnacht, Comert, Okafor, Rieder, Amdouni, Amenda, Jaquez, Itten.

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  1. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Anyone know the walk out song for the games? Decent tune…

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    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      More music than song…

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      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        1 month, 28 days ago

        The Alan Parsons Project - Sirius

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=feoHV5JUbuo&ra=m

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  2. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Argh Widmer... Should have kept Elvedi or Rodriguez.

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  3. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Swiss national anthem is basically the Happy Birthday song, right?

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  4. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    10% of the teams at the World cup are managed by ex Chelsea/West ham managers

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    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      100% of teams have at least one Chelsea player (including loans) in their squad…

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  5. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Qatar miss sitter, Suisse defence asleep…

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  6. Thanos
    • 5 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Ndoye still playing for Forest

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  7. Thanos
    • 5 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Xhaka doesn’t take dead balls for Switzerland?

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  8. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Penalty! Banker Swiss win on the cards.

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  9. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Who is on pens for Switzerland?

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    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Toblerone

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  10. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Oaf, keeper took a full knee to the napper, at full tilt, yikes…

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  11. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Oh My Captain Embolo!

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  12. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    And Embolo. Had that boy also in my team but too much uncertainty on the visa and fitness. Hopefully Ndoye will convert eventually.

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    1. Thanos
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Went with Xhaka for pens. Well needs a cap change then.

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  13. Charlie Price
    • 5 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Why has that pen not been overruled for offside? VAR fail again.

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    1. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      That was clearly offside... WTF is going on?

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      1. Charlie Price
        • 5 Years
        1 month, 28 days ago

        Commentator on itv trying to justify it by saying “you have to trust the technology”. Lee Dixon not having it!

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        1. Charlie Price
          • 5 Years
          1 month, 28 days ago

          Looking at it again merely confirms that he was definitely offside.

          Maybe the technology allows you to be a “little bit” offside? Ha Ha.

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          1. That was offside
            1 month, 28 days ago

            I mean like, I’m not a sports better but that goal cannot actually stand? Like what is actually happening here

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      2. That was offside
        1 month, 28 days ago

        Why aren’t the commentators talking about it at all?

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  14. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Remembered how shockingly bad Qatar where in the opening game of 2022 World cup, had to target them.

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    1. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 8 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      They seem to be holding their own this time around...

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  15. We Are The Spurs
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Is this Fantasy Scout thing for real? So late with this post.

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    1. bso
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      What are you talking about??? This post is current.

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      1. We Are The Spurs
        1 month, 28 days ago

        But it should have been posted at least an hour before kick-off. And it wasn't!

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      2. We Are The Spurs
        1 month, 28 days ago

        Wow. You've been 11 years too long in this place.

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  16. That was offside
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Stuck watching in USA

    Commentators have clearly been instructed not to breath a word about the obvious offside penalty that was awarded

    Like they literally have not mentioned it

    Is it this bad on UK broadcast? Is fifa just putting Ai photoshop into overdrive to generate an image at halftime to convince us not to believe our eyes?

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    1. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 8 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Yah, looked totally offside to the naked eye, and I'm near-sighted.

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    2. LangerznMash
      • 10 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      UK pundits calling it bullsh*t, Gary Neville outright called it a dictatorship to withhold the evidence. No transparency.

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      1. That was offside
        1 month, 28 days ago

        Good hopefully he uses his platform to hammer this, they didn’t even have the decency to ai generate some BS image to justify it

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    3. Travel Notes
      • 3 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Maybe they don't understand the game.

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  17. That was offside
    1 month, 28 days ago

    How can 20 minutes pass since the incident that is deciding this game and the 2 muppets calling the game have not spoken a single word about it

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  18. Mother Farke
    • 2 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Alfonso Davies v this Qatar team LOCKED IN if he's declared fit for MD2.

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  19. That was offside
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Halftime analysis first chance to cover the offside and completely ignored didn’t even show the one var line replay we got during regular time what is going on here actually

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    1. NZREDS
      • 13 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      That was offside!

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    2. Mother Farke
      • 2 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Dictatorship, mate.

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      1. NZREDS
        • 13 Years
        1 month, 28 days ago

        Trust the process

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        1. Mother Farke
          • 2 Years
          1 month, 28 days ago

          FIFA based in Switzerland. As fair a decision as you'll ever see.

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          1. Travel Notes
            • 3 Years
            1 month, 28 days ago

            Don't be silly.

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    3. Charlie Price
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Going to be some mega controversy in this World Cup if offside reviews are all as badly judged as tonight’s.

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    4. LangerznMash
      • 10 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Football isn't about football anymore.

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      1. Travel Notes
        • 3 Years
        1 month, 28 days ago

        You're not wrong there.

        Out of interest, what is it about?

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        1. LangerznMash
          • 10 Years
          1 month, 28 days ago

          hype and attention?

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  20. NZREDS
    • 13 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Which team has the most players at the World Cup?

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    1. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 8 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Chelsea?

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    2. LangerznMash
      • 10 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      USA = 26 players + all the officials.

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      1. NZREDS
        • 13 Years
        1 month, 28 days ago

        Hahah well played sir!

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    3. Sedemuda
      • 9 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Man City

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  21. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    A (controversial) penalty is all the Swiss can muster against Qatar doesn't look good for them. Can't finish.

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    1. That was offside
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Controversial is an understatement

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  22. That was offside
    1 month, 28 days ago

    They did not even show the one singular var line replay at halftime, none of the overpaid ‘analysts’ even mentioned it…. Um so this tournament is just invalid now?

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  23. That was offside
    1 month, 28 days ago

    I’m watching in USA, anybody watching coverage from another country? Have the announcers mentioned the offside at all in the uk?

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    1. Charlie Price
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Here in uk the half time pundits are all asking for visual proof that it was NOT offside. None forthcoming yet though.

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      1. That was offside
        1 month, 28 days ago

        Good do not let this go uk

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        1. That was offside
          1 month, 28 days ago

          USA has clearly bent the knee

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    2. NZREDS
      • 13 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Not in NZ

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  24. Travel Notes
    • 3 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    This has to be the most boring World Cup ever.

    What are Qatar doing there?

    Why aren't Switzerland Spanking them?

    Oh, it's the group phase, three points will do.

    Bring back football.

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    1. LangerznMash
      • 10 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Qatar are in because they wanted 48 teams in this elite commercial competition. For more answers you will have to watch a 2 minute advert to continue.

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  25. That was offside
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Can sports bettors just sue to get there money back? Hahah I just cannot understand

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  26. That was offside
    1 month, 28 days ago

    75 minutes into USA broadcast and the commentators have FINALLY been allowed to mention the offside

    Of course they are not allowed to offer their own thoughts, only that other people who looked at the incident (who else is getting access to this information other than the commentators????????) say it looks offside…. I mean this a complete joke and I truly hope people sue betting companies over this

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    1. Travel Notes
      • 3 Years
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Then what are they there for? I think they don't know what to talk about. They just get paid to be there.

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      1. That was offside
        1 month, 28 days ago

        There has been one goal in this game and it insanely controversial and they are absolutely aware of it and have CLEARLY been instructed not to talk about it

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  27. Travel Notes
    • 3 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    If there's a 3am game, I'm not watching it. This game has put me to sleep. And to think that Switzerland will play Portugal in the final?

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    1. That was offside
      1 month, 28 days ago

      Is there any point to watching any of these games if the rules aren’t going to be applied to the actions on the field?

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      1. Travel Notes
        • 3 Years
        1 month, 28 days ago

        World Cup Football is not like it was in 1982, when I was at my first finals in Bilbao. What has happened is scandalous, in more ways than one.

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        1. That was offside
          1 month, 28 days ago

          Not interested in whataboutism, you might do well as USA talking head for fifa though! Lmao

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        2. Travel Notes
          • 3 Years
          1 month, 28 days ago

          What's with this referee cam? I'm lost. Infantinto needs to grow some hair; because he's got no balls.

          FIFA Peace Prize? Give me a break.

          When does Premier League start?

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          1. That was offside
            1 month, 28 days ago

            Ok I think this poster might literally be an AI chatbot. God FFS has fallen so hard man this is the World Cup and just zero community engagement. I guess blasting a 70 euro membership ad at anyone who comes to this site is bad for community building, who’ve thought

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  28. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Qatar breaking Swiss hearts

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  29. BeaversWithAttitude
    • 8 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Hells yeah! Justice is SWEET! Go on, Qatar! Never a pen!

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  30. x.jim.x
    • 11 Years
    1 month, 28 days ago

    Swiss rolled

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