Arrowhead Stadium. Kansas City. July 11. 9 PM ET. Argentina played their group games at this exact ground and won both. Feels like home for them. Switzerland has never beaten Argentina. Not once in 7 meetings. Saturday is their 8th go at it. Messi has 8 goals at this tournament. Switzerland is the quietest team in the last eight. Efficient. Organised. Hard to beat. One of these sides goes home after this match. Interesting to see if it will be the defending champions or the team nobody expected to still be here.
Argentina vs Switzerland Match Info
Match: Argentina against Switzerland
Round: World Cup 2026. Quarter-final stage.
Date and time: Saturday, July 11. 9 PM ET. At 2 in the morning, UK time, July 12.
Place: Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri.
Both teams' last game result: Argentina won 3-2 in 2023.
How Argentina Got Here
Beat Cape Verde 3-2 in the group. Then Algeria 3-0. Then Austria. Group winners. Then Egypt in the round of 16. 0-2 down after 67 minutes. Most teams do not come back from that. Cristian Romero pulled back one. Messi lost a first-half penalty, but scored the equalizer. Enzo Fernandez got his head to the Match in the 92nd minute. 3-2. Argentina through. Just about.
Messi has 8 goals at this World Cup. 21 World Cup goals across 6 tournaments. Nobody else is close. 9 games in a row with a goal too, starting from Australia in Qatar 2022. He is 39. Still going. Lautaro Martinez and Julian Alvarez sit behind him in attack. Three of them. Most teams left in this tournament would take one.
How Switzerland Got Here
Switzerland won their group. Beat Bosnia 4-1. Then Colombia in the round of 16. Ninety minutes. No goals. Penalties. Vargas stepped up last and scored. Switzerland got through. Last World Cup quarter-final for Switzerland? 1954. That is 72 years ago. Different world. Same round. That was on home soil in Switzerland. This is Kansas City.
Xhaka runs everything in midfield. Embolo leads the attack, with 2 goals at this tournament already. Manzambi was their top scorer. Injured. Out Saturday. Big gap to fill. Big loss. Switzerland has scored only once in its last 3 games. Against a back line as good as Argentina's, that is a concern. But they are hard to beat. They conceded just 2 goals across their entire qualifying campaign.
Argentina and Switzerland Team News
Argentina: No major injuries reported. Messi is fit and expected to start. Mac Allister and Enzo Fernandez are the midfield engine. Full squad available for Scaloni.
Switzerland: Johan Manzambi is out with an injury. Their top scorer misses the quarter-final. Embolo leads the line in his absence. Xhaka is fit and starts. No other major concerns were reported for Murat Yakin.
Argentina and Switzerland Predicted Lineups
Based on tournament form and current fitness.
H3 Argentina Predicted 11 Players (4-3-3)
1 Martínez
2 González
13 Romero
19 Otamendi
3 Acuña
5 Paredes
8 Mac Allister
24 Enzo Fernández
11 Di María
10 Messi
9 Lautaro Martínez
Switzerland Predicted 11 Players (4-2-3-1)
1 Kobel
2 Widmer
5 Elvedi
4 Akanji
3 Rodriguez
10 Xhaka
23 Freuler
7 Vargas
14 Sow
11 Rieder
9 Embolo
Argentina vs Switzerland Head-to-Head
7 meetings. Argentina won 5. Two draws. Switzerland won 0. Never beaten Argentina. Not once.
Two World Cup meetings. Argentina 2-0 in 1966. Argentina 1-0 in the 2014 round of 16, needed extra time to do it. Two World Cup games. Switzerland scored zero goals in both. Combined. Not one goal in 180-plus minutes of World Cup football betting against them.
The Key Battle on the Pitch
Messi against Switzerland's back four. Akanji and Elvedi are good defenders. Really good. Messi, though. 8 goals. Came back from 2-0 down against Egypt. Won 3-2. Thirty-nine years old. You cannot really plan for that. He knows this is probably the last one. You cannot plan for a player in that headspace.
Switzerland's best hope is Xhaka disrupting Mac Allister and Enzo Fernandez in the middle. Stop the supply to Messi and Lautaro, and Switzerland will stay in the game. Let Argentina play through midfield, and it could get ugly.
Argentina vs Switzerland Betting Tips
Argentina to win: 5 wins from 7 meetings. Switzerland has never beaten them. Defending champions. Messi in the form of his tournament life. Anchor bet.
Messi anytime scorer: 8 goals at this tournament. Scored in 9 straight World Cup games. Gets the big moments.
Both teams to score: Argentina scored in all 5. Switzerland in 4 of 5. Both teams score. Every game basically.
Over 2.5 goals: Argentina put 10 past 5 different teams. Opens up fast when they get going. When they get going, it opens up quickly.
Argentina vs Switzerland Score Prediction
Switzerland will make it hard. They always do. Xhaka will organise. The back four will stay compact. First half probably tight. Argentina has been here before, though. Down 2-0 against Egypt. Still won. They do not panic.
Messi gets one. Lautaro or Alvarez off the bench adds a second. Embolo grabs one for Switzerland and makes it nervous late on. Argentina holds.
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Final Thoughts on Argentina vs Switzerland
Switzerland has never beaten Argentina. Seven attempts, zero wins. Saturday is eight. Messi has 8 goals. He turned 39 during this tournament and is still the best player in it. Switzerland is organised and resilient, and Embolo will cause problems. But Argentina has more quality in every position and a striker who scores in every game. Argentina 2-1 Switzerland.