Granit Xhaka has received a call-up to join Switzerland for the UEFA Nations League semi-final next week.

Switzerland’s official national team Twitter account confirmed that Xhaka would be part of their squad for the Nations League final stage this month, though Stephan Lichtsteiner didn’t make the cut.

https://twitter.com/SFV_ASF/status/1133012745895522304

With Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands and England all competing to become the first Nations League champion, Xhaka is the only Arsenal player involved. The Gunners don’t have any Portuguese or Dutch players, and the only English player likely to get a call-up was Danny Welbeck, who has only just returned from a long injury.

This won’t be a popular opinion, as everyone loves to blame him for everything that goes wrong at Arsenal, but Xhaka was the team’s best starting player in the defeat to Chelsea on Wednesday. He was one of the only ones to perform to even a vaguely respectable level, along with Petr Cech and perhaps Sokratis Papastathopoulos.

With any luck, he’ll play just as well for Switzerland and his team will get a much better result.

As a side note, the Swiss team’s Twitter account is branded terribly. They’ve called it “nationalteams_SFVASF”, rather than “Switzerland Football” or “Association Suisse de Football” or similar. They really need to sort that out. You can’t be a serious football team if your Twitter name looks like the default file name of a photo downloaded from Google.