2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Match 44 Group E Honduras Vs Switzerland Wednesday June 25,2014

Honduras Vs Switzerland at Arena Amazonia, Manaus

Managers

Ottmar Hitzfeld(Switzerland)
Luis Fernando Suarez(Honduras)

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• The only previous meeting between these nations was the goalless draw at the 2010 World Cup.

Honduras

• Honduras have only won one of their last nine matches (W1, D3, L5).
• They await their first World Cup victory, having drawn three and lost five of the previous eight.
• They have played more matches at the World Cup without winning than any other side.
• Carlo Costly's goal against Ecuador in their last game is the only one that Honduras have scored in their last 569 minutes of World Cup action.

Switzerland

• Switzerland suffered only their second defeat in 20 matches when they lost 5-2 to France last time out (W13, D5, L2).
• They conceded as many goals in that game as they had in their previous nine World Cup matches. It is their biggest defeat under Ottmar Hitzfeld, who took charge after Euro 2008.
• Three of Switzerland's four goals at this tournament so far have come in the final 10 minutes of the match.
• Tranquillo Barnetta has played seven World Cup matches and is one appearance shy of equalling Swiss record holder Charles Antenen. 

Switzerland beats Honduras 3-0
Goal Scorers -Xherdan Shaqiri( 6,31and 71)

Shaqiri claims the match ball after scoring a hat-trick

Xherdan Shaqiri is embraced by Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld

Switzerland players celebrate beating Honduras and reaching the last 16

• Xherdan Shaqiri opened the scoring with 20-yard strike
• Bayern Munich ace added second with clinical finish
• Shaqiri completed his hat-trick in the 71st minute
• Switzerland pipped Ecuador to second place in Group E
• Switzerland will now face Argentina in the last 16

FIFA WORLD CUP HAT-TRICKS

Player	Team	Opponent	Date
Bert Patenaude	USA	Paraguay	17/07/30
Guillermo Stabile	Argentina	Mexico	19/07/30
Pedro Cea	Uruguay	Yugoslavia	27/07/30
Edmund Conen	Germany	Belgium	27/05/34
Angelo Schiavio	Italy	USA	27/05/34
Oldrich Nejedly	Czechoslovakia	Germany	03/06/34
Ernst Wilimowski	Poland	Brazil	05/06/38
Leonidas Da Silva	Brazil	Poland	05/06/38
Gustav Wetterstrom	Sweden	Cuba	12/06/38
Gyula Zsengeller	Hungary	Sweden	16/06/38
Oscar Miguez	Uruguay	Bolivia	02/07/50
Ademir Marques de Menezes	Brazil	Sweden	09/07/50
Sandor Kocsis	Hungary	South Korea	17/06/54
Erich Probst	Austria	Czechoslovakia	19/06/54
Carlos Borges	Uruguay	Scotland	19/06/54
Sandor Kocsis	Hungary	Germany	20/06/54
Sargin Burhan	Turkey	South Korea	20/06/54
Max Morlock	Germany	Turkey	23/06/54
Josef Hugi	Switzerland	Austria	26/06/54
Theodor Wagner	Austria	Switzerland	26/06/54
Just Fontaine	France	Paraguay	08/06/58
Pele	Brazil	France	24/06/58
Just Fontaine	France	Germany	28/06/58
Florian Albert	Hungary	Bulgaria	03/06/62
Eusebio	Portugal	North Korea	23/07/66
Geoff Hurst	England	Germany	30/07/66
Gerd Muller	Germany	Bulgaria	07/06/70
Gerd Muller	Germany	Peru	10/06/70
Dusan Bajevic	Yugoslavia	Zaire	18/06/74
Andrzej Szarmach	Poland	Haiti	19/06/74
Rob Rensenbrink	Netherlands	Iran	03/06/78
Teofilo Cubillas	Peru	Iran	11/06/78
Laszlo Kiss	Hungary	El Salvador	15/06/82
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Germany	Chile	20/06/82
Zbigniew Boniek	Poland	Belgium	28/06/82
Paolo Rossi	Italy	Brazil	05/07/82
Preben Elkjaer-Larsen	Denmark	Uruguay	08/06/86
Gary Lineker	England	Poland	11/06/86
Igor Belanov	USSR	Belgium	15/06/86
Emilio Butragueno	Spain	Denmark	18/06/86
Michel	Spain	South Korea	17/06/90
Tomas Skuhravy	Czechoslovakia	Costa Rica	23/06/90
Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	Greece	21/06/94
Oleg Salenko	Russia	Cameroon	28/06/94
Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	Jamaica	21/06/98
Miroslav Klose	Germany	Saudi Arabia	01/06/02
Pauleta	Portugal	Poland	10/06/02
Gonzalo Higuain	Argentina	South Korea	17/06/10
Thomas Muller	Germany	Portugal	16/06/14
Xherdan Shaqiri                                            Switzerland                  Honduras                      25/06/14