World Cup Qualification - Group 2 - Latvia Win, Switz Take Greece Position

Basel - Two goals in the last six minutes to give Switzerland an important victory over Greece. 2-0 victory at home that makes Ottmar Hitzfeld's squad led the Group 2 and shift the weight of it rivals.

In the standings as they now are top with 16 points from seven games, winning three points from Greece and Latvia. If able to maintain that position in the last three games, then hope to perform at the finals will open big. In the last 10 editions of Switzerland had only appeared twice in the World Cup.

Meanwhile, keep the odds Latvia after picking up the victory 1-0 in a stable Israel. Heroes of Latvia defender Kaspars Gorkss is that heading into a ball in the air from a corner kick on 59 minutes.

Israel for the first times again their defeat at home in World Cup qualifying event. The last time they lost the number when playing in front of the supporters was in the year 1993 when entertaining players Finland.

Lineup

Switzerland: 1-Diego Benaglio; 2-Alain Nef (18-Eren Derdiyok 61), 5-Steve von Bergen, 13-Stephane Grichting, 3-Ludovic Magnin; 6-Benjamin Huggel, 8-Gelson Fernandes (15-Hakan Yakin 68 ); 7-Tranquillo Barnetta, 11-Marco Padalino; 9-Alex Frei, 10-Blaise Nkufo (19-Johan Vonlanthen 81).

Greece: 1-Konstantinos Chalkias; 15-Sokratis Papastathopoulos, 5-Evangelos Moras, 16-Sotirios Kyrgiakos, 4-Nikos Spyropoulos; 11-Loukas Vyntra, 8-Konstantinos Katsouranis, 3-Christos Patsatzoglou; 14-Dimitrios Salpingidis (7-Georgios Samaras 46), 9-Angelos Charisteas (18-Avraam Papadopoulos 73), 10-Ioannis Amanatidis (17-Theofanis Gekas 81).

Israel: 1-Dudu Aouate; 2-Yuval Shpungin, 5-Avi Strul, 13, Dekel Keinan, 6-Dedi Ben-Dayan; 7-Baram Kayal, 4-Gal Alberman (16-Tamir Cohen 46), 15-Yossi Benayoun (8-Aviram Baruchyan 66), 9-Yaniv Katan; 10-Elyaniv Barda, 12-Omer Golan (17-Ben Sahar 62).

Latvia: Andris Vanins-12; 3-Vitalijs Astafjevs, Oskars Klava-5, 6-Deniss Ivanovs, Deniss Kacanovs-7, 8-Alexandrs Cauna (18-Jurijs Zigajevs 80), 9-Maris Verpakovskis (14-Andrejs Pereplotkins 90 + 1), 10-Andrejs Rubins (4-Dzintaris Zirnis 81), 11-Girts Karlsons, 13-Kaspars Gorkss, 16-Vladimirs Kolesnicenko.