Sweden v Switzerland, 03 July 2018

Kick-off: 5.00pm local Sweden v Switzerland was Match 55 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia) Assistant Referee 1: Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia) Assistant Referee 2: Robert Vukan (Slovenia) Fourth Official: Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain) Reserve AR: Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain) VAR: Daniele Orsato (Italy) Sweden had now reached the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 1994. They had now won consecutive World Cup finals games for the first time since 1958. Switzerland had still yet to win a World Cup finals knock-out game (played seven). This was Switzerland’s first defeat in their last ten games since October 2017 when they lost to Portugal in a World Cup qualifier. This was Sweden's 50th game at the World Cup finals. Only Mexico had played more without winning the tournament (played 57).