Canada lose home advantage for last 32 after Switzerland win to take top spot

With Canada’s home World Cup on the line, Jesse Marsch used his captain, Alphonso Davies, as a “decoy”. A shrewd Switzerland side, alas, never took the bait and so the switch is now Marsch’s lot as his team are forced to become road warriors.A pulsating second half in the sauna of BC Place followed a dogfight of a first. At the end of it all, despite a gatecrashing intervention by the Canada supersub Promise David, Switzerland had won Group B and with it the rights to call Vancouver home through the first week of the knockout stages. Continue reading...