The chase for the 2016 European Cup will take its first steps on Monday. Two teams attempting to qualify for the tournament will do battle in a match between Switzerland and England. The contest scheduled for 2:45 p.m. ET will be held at the St. Jakob-Park in Basel and can be live streamed here free. Additional TV coverage can be found on Fox Sports 1.
England's head coach Roy Hodgson had this to offer ahead of today's European qualifier (via BBC): "What sort of world are we living in? You are scraping the bottom of a barrel to say something negative from me swearing. I'm a football coach. I played in the non-League with dockers whose every other word was a swear word. They didn't even know they were swearing because they didn't know any other words."
"If you asked me why [I swear], I couldn't tell you," he added, defending his foul-mouthed tirade after a 1-0 victory over Norway. "I think my vocabulary is good enough to allow me not to do it."
"If you get it written down 'we are very annoyed and morally offended by Hodgson, the England manager, using a swear word and we insist that in the future he never swears' then okay, I will never swear in your company again."
Tactical Preview
Player to Watch: Switzerland's Xherdan Shaqiri remains Switzerland's primary attacking threat down the channel. The 22-year-old has made two appearances for Bayern Munich this season, averaging a modest 1.5 successful take-ons per match.
Switzerland's Projected Lineup (4-2-3-1): Sommer; Rodriguez, Bergen, Djourou, Lichsteiner; Behrami, Inler; Memedi, Xhaka, Shaqiri; Drmic
England's Projected Lineup (4-4-2): Hart; Baines, Jones, Cahill, Stones; Sterling, Wilsher, Milner, Oxlade; Welbeck, Rooney
Note: Credit all statistics to officially licensed data from Opta Sports (via WhoScored).
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