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.