00:00Player Alan Suta decided only an hour before kick-off that he couldn't play because of a broken toe.
00:04Thomas Bickle replaces him.
00:07And Spain make no fewer than seven changes from the side which beat Bolivia 3-1 in their final group match.
00:13The commentary in the RFK Stadium is from Clive Tilghley, Switzerland, in the white.
00:21Luis Enrique has won the ball here from Conta.
00:25And he's won a free kick too.
00:30Careless defending.
00:34Once the ball had been charged down, the left full-back was always struggling to catch up.
00:45Piero is setting himself for the shot.
00:49Almost found a way through to...
00:51There's been a lot of debate in Spain about the balance between Real Madrid and Barcelona players in Clemente's squad.
01:02Hierro plays for Real Madrid, as indeed does Luis Enrique, who won the free kick.
01:06But there are nine Barcelona men in the 22.
01:09Look how close that was.
01:10Loose one from Nadal.
01:20Borrell.
01:21Bickle.
01:22Not much wide of him on either flank.
01:30Court clearance again by Nadal.
01:32And here's Chapuisar.
01:34He's gone away from the marker.
01:36Oh, what a chance here for Bickle.
01:38A good save by Zubisarretta.
01:41But Thomas Bickle will feel that really he should have given the Spanish goalkeeper no chance.
01:49Loose play by Nadal, the sweeper.
01:52He was holding on to Chapuisar there, but he didn't go down looking for the penalty.
01:56He felt that there was a better chance to be had.
01:58And maybe there was, but Bickle couldn't take it.
02:00Maybe one touch too many.
02:02Good save, though.
02:02It's the 3-2 back here, though.
02:09Hierro.
02:10Sergei was almost in.
02:13Chapuisar, though.
02:16That's Forza to his left.
02:19Went on a solo mission and ran into Nadal.
02:25His challenge apparently was fair.
02:30Oh, and Hierro's been allowed to go on here and score.
02:33Switzerland stopped playing.
02:34They thought a player was offside.
02:37But Hierro has made the breakthrough with a quarter of an arc on.
02:44There was a player coming back, Sergei.
02:47Switzerland thought they'd played him offside.
02:50But Hierro was given the benefit of the doubt.
02:52And made no mistake at all with the finish.
02:57Hierro, whose goal against Denmark and the qualifiers clinched Spain's place in these World Cup finals.
03:04may have taken a massive step in, carrying them towards the quarter-finals.
03:10Hierro of Real Madrid.
03:12Swatzer.
03:20Headed by Nadal.
03:22Here's Knup.
03:23Challenge by Baccaro, penalised.
03:31Spain have squandered Leeds recklessly in this competition so far.
03:34They were two up against Korea with five minutes to go and drew that game.
03:38They were one up against Germany at half-time and drew that match.
03:45Shot from Bickel.
03:46Found a way through to Zubi Sorretta.
03:51And they probably didn't see very much of it.
03:55Reggie left that one.
03:58And it was 16 Bickel who hit the shot.
04:07Hierro finding Luis Enrique.
04:10Again, the flag stayed down and Ferrer is able to go clear here.
04:14Not a great chance.
04:16Goykache out.
04:17Oh, hit the post.
04:20Might still come for Ferrer.
04:22And in the end, Conte and Herr managed to combine.
04:27But it was the same old story there.
04:29Because Goykache was clearly offside in the build-up to that goal.
04:33But the flag stayed down.
04:35Switzerland thought they'd got their man.
04:37They thought they'd pushed up.
04:38The offside trap had worked.
04:39And now Goykache comes back into the play.
04:41And very nearly scores the second Spanish goal.
04:44Locked in by Geiger to Knup.
04:46She's Bickel.
04:50Now stood up.
04:53Into towards Knup.
04:54Oh, what a save.
04:55World-class action.
05:00Adrian Knup.
05:04Can't believe how Zubi Zaretta kept that out.
05:08Terrific cross on the substitute full-back.
05:11Knup at the stretch.
05:12What a reaction from the keeper.
05:19Chapuis are climbing.
05:20Out-jump though by Abelardo and Spain.
05:23Have survived.
05:24Studeau delivered it.
05:35Right behind the defence.
05:37A teasing cross.
05:39But the last line of defence was up to the challenge.
05:41It's a striker for a midfield play.
05:45In fact, Christophe Oral makes way for Zubiak.
05:47Who's Argentine by birth.
05:50Swiss by marriage.
05:54About 20 minutes as a replacement for Bickel.
05:56Against the Americans in the opening game.
05:58He was the top scorer in the Swiss league last season.
06:09Zubiak has got 17 minutes in which to make an impression.
06:12Sergei.
06:16All pushed in.
06:18A chance from Luis Enrique.
06:19It's two.
06:24And that could well take Spain into the quarterfinals.
06:28Luis Enrique of Real Madrid.
06:37And Switzerland may be caught knapping having made the substitution.
06:40Sergei made the run across the box.
06:44And Luis Enrique had enough time to take a couple of touches before picking his spot.
06:48And sending Pascalo the wrong way.
06:51Spain will quickly make a substitution in order to shore things up.
06:59There's a defender on the way because they have a two-goal lead.
07:04Thanks to Luis Enrique.
07:05Reggie will take the free kick.
07:19Oh, what a chance that was.
07:23The substitute, Subiano.
07:25I think that might have been his first touch of the ball.
07:27He'd only been on the field seconds and Spain scored.
07:33He's been on the field a minute or so now and he almost scored.
07:35Bekharo.
07:47Otero.
07:48Otero.
07:49Magiri Stein.
07:51Now Giddy Stein, on goes Otero, the substitute, now can he wrap it up, oh great save by Pascuolo, that wouldn't really have been curtains, Sergi, Kamalasa, still Sergi, still a chance for Otero, oh, twice in a matter of seconds, Otero could have wrapped it all up.
08:21It's a slim thread by which Switzerland hang on, but the Spanish league remains 2-0, Otero, the substitute, brought on to shut the game up, almost shut it up emphatically with a third goal.
08:37A whisker away.
08:52Luis Enrique, they're devastating on the break now, Pereira is in here, he's been brought down by Pascuolo and that will be a penalty.
09:04And that might not be the end of the story, there's a yellow card waving for the goalkeeper, that's all.
09:13He will stay on to face the penalty, but he's only staying on to face defeat, because the Spanish fiesta has begun.
09:21Penalty, won by Albert Ferrer of Barcelona.
09:28There are four minutes remaining, it's Vergili Stein, it's 3-0.
09:47And what a day for Spain, Comtita Martinez wins Wimbledon, and Spain have won a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.
09:54Vergili Stein, one of the Barcelona players, humbled by Milan in the European Cup final, has plenty to celebrate as he completes the Spanish victory.
10:15His hands just shaking a little bit, but it's with excitement now.
10:29Regi will take this corner, deep in stoppage time, Subicareta claims there were emotional scenes in Barcelona two years ago when they won Olympic gold.
10:38And that Spanish emotion will run up over again tonight in Washington.
10:46A country which has produced some of the best club sides the world has ever seen, has an international team to reckon with again.
10:533-0 winners against Roy Hush in Switzerland.
10:56They go on to Boston to meet the winners of Tuesday's game there between Nigeria and Italy.
11:03That quarter-final a week today, and Spain will have three extra days to recover and prepare for it.
11:113-0 winners today.
11:13Spain probably have never had a better chance to win their first World Cup.
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