World Cup

Stephan Lichtsteiner will miss Switzerland’s World Cup knock-out tie against Sweden after picking up another booking against Costa Rica.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Wednesday. Mexico v Sween, South Korea v Germany (Mesut Ozil), Serbia v Brazil and Switzerland (Granit Xhaka, Stephan Lichtsteiner) v Costa Rica (Joel Campbell) all feature. Anita also previews Thursday's matches which feature Japan v Poland, Senegal v Colombia (David Ospina), England (Danny Welbeck) v Belgium and Panama v Tunisia.

Mesut Ozil was pictured clashing with angry German fans after his country was knocked out of the World Cup at the group stage for the first time in their history.

Joachim Low has revealed he received a ‘great reaction’ from Mesut Ozil after the German was dropped for their group game against Sweden.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Tuesday. Australia v Peru, Denmark v France, Iceland v her home nation, Croatia, and Nigeria (Alex Iwobi) v Argentina all feature. Anita also previews Wednesday's matches which feature Mexico v Sween, South orea v Germany (Mesut Ozil), Serbia v Brazil and Switzerland (Granit Xhaka, Stephan Lichtsteiner) v Costa Rica (Joel Campbell).

The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, has opened a bank account so that he can contribute to the fines picked up by Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri.

Granit Xhaka and Stephan Lichtsteiner escaped with fines after they were charged with ‘provoking the general public’ following their goal celebrations against Serbia and a complaint by the Serbian FA.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Monday. Saudi Arabia v Egypt (Mohamed Elneny), Uruguay v Russia, Iran v Portugal and Spain (Nacho Monreal) v Morocco all feature in this VAR-tastic roundup. Anita also previews Tuesday's matches which feature Australia v Peru, Denmark v France, Iceland v Croatia and Nigeria (Alex Iwobi) v Argentina.

Arsene Wenger believes that Kyle Walker should lose his place in the England starting lineup and that Gareth Southgate should turn to his former teammate at Tottenham, Eric Dier.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Sunday. England (Danny Welbeck) v Panama, Japan v Senegal and Poland (Wojciech Szczesny) v Colombia (David Ospina) all feature.

Stephan Lichtsteiner has also been charged by FIFA after he joined in with Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri’s double-headed eagle celebration.

Since his move from Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2016 Granit Xhaka has split opinion but his improvement is undeniable.

FIFA have opened up disciplinary proceedings after Granit Xhaka celebrated his goal against Serbia by making a two-headed eagle gesture with his hands.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Saturday. Belgium v Tunisia, South Korea v Mexico and Germany (Mesut Ozil) v Sweden all feature.

Stephan Lichtsteiner hailed Nemanja Matic after Switzerland beat Serbia on Friday night.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Friday. Brazil v Costa Rica (Joel Campbell), Nigeria (Alex Iwobi) v Iceland, and Serbia v Switzerland (Granit Xhaka, Stephan Lichtsteiner) all feature. 

Stephan Lichtsteiner has defended Granit Xhaka after the Arsenal man celebrated his Switzerland screamer with a double-headed eagle gesture aimed at the Serbian fans.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Thursday. Denmark v Australia, France v Peru and Argentina v Croatia, Anita's home country, all feature. Needless to say, she's a little excited by what happened against Lionel Messi & co.

Germany made a losing start to the World Cup, falling 1-0 to Mexico, and surprise, surprise - guess who was in the firing line? That’s right; our own Mesut Ozil seems to be the fall guy again.

Unai Emery's first signing as Arsenal manager was Switzerland captain Stephan Lichtsteiner, who will join the Gunners on a free transfer following the World Cup finals.

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Wednesday. Portugal v Morocco, Uruguay (Torreira) v Saudi Arabia, and Iran v Spain (Monreal) all feature. She also hopes that Portugal won't win the whole thing and praises the underdog.

Lothar Matthaus has hit out at Mesut Ozil claiming that it looks like he doesn’t want to play for Germany.

In this latest roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Tuesday. Colombia (Ospina) v Japan, Poland (Woj) v Senegal and Russia v Egypt (Elneny) all feature. Anita also previews Wednesday's matches which feature Portugal v Morocco, Uruguay (Torreira) v Saudi Arabia, and Iran v Spain (Monreal).

Mexico are facing punishment from FIFA for the homophobic chanting of their fans at the World Cup in Russia

During the World Cup, Anita Sambol will bring you a daily roundup of all the action. In this latest roundup, Anita turns her attention to...

After 11 games, it is interesting to note that discipline records are very good at the 2018 World Cup. Is that due to VAR or the referees leniency with regards to the rules on yellow and red cards?

In this third podcast of our summer World Cup series, Anita recaps day four of the action which featured Costa Rica (Joel Campbell) v Serbia, Germany (Mesut Ozil) v Mexico (Carlos Vela), and Brazil v Switzerland (Granit Xhaka and Stephan Lichtsteiner).

Granit Xhaka was given a terrible rating of just 3-4 after his performance against Brazil.

Takuma Asano could get an unlikely call up to the Japan squad to replace Shinji Okazaki who picked up a calf injury.

German national team manager Joachim Low revealed that Mesut Ozil has undertaken a number of extra training sessions in order to be fully fit for their opening World Cup game on Sunday against Mexico.

Stephen Lichtsteiner is preparing for his country’s opening game at the Russia World Cup against one of the tournament favourites, Brazil, on Sunday evening, and has been speaking to the press ahead of the game.

In this second podcast of our summer World Cup series, Anita recaps day three of the action which featured France v Australia, Argentina v Iceland, Peru v Denmark and her home country, Croatia against Alex Iwobi's Nigeria. Sylvain Jamet also makes a surprise appearance to discuss an Arsenal-less France's opening game.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has called on club teammate Alex Iwobi to prove him right to support Nigeria at this year's World Cup, with a post on social media.

Unai Emery has hailed Granit Xhaka as the Swiss midfielder put pen-to-paper on a new Arsenal deal.

During the World Cup, Anita Sambol will bring you a daily roundup of all the action. In this first podcast of our summer series, Anita recaps day one and two of the tournament, with a focus on Arsenal’s interest at the tournament.

Granit Xhaka picked up a knee injury but, despite having to be helped from the pitch, will not miss the World Cup after bone bruising was confirmed rather than ligament damage as first feared.

Granit Xhaka was spotted crying after picking up a knee injury during a training session with Switzerland.

Nacho Monreal has picked up a muscle injury and missed Spain's latest training session.

The season is at an end finally but there won't be much of a break over summer thanks to the World Cup!

Jack Wilshere has posted on Twitter his reaction to Gareth Southgate's decision to leave him out of the England squad to travel to the World Cup this summer.