Football World Cup 2014 Brasil: Xherdan Shaqiri's hat-trick send swiss into the second round of World Cup

 Switzerland's Xherdan Shaqiri Hat-trick defeated Honduras to join his comapanion Argentina to have place in Last 16 of Major event.

The Swiss scored the opening goal early as Shaqiri scored with a fine 25-yard strike, before he twice converted Josip Drmic passes to make it 3-0.

The game showed its result 30 minutes when sluggish defending from Honduras allowed Drmic to collect Gokhan Inler's ball from defence and square it for an unmarked Shaqiri, who finished calmly.

 The severe-tackling Central American side tried hard on a pitch that was cutting up even inside the opening 10 minutes at ground Amazonia on a night when humidity was measured at 88%.

Wigan's Juan Carlos Garcia moved a shot wide and Brayan Beckeles also missed when well placed in the Hondurans' only unusual attempt of the opening 45 minutes.

But after the break they began to a solid play by creating hazard and Bengtson was unlucky as he took the ball around goalkeeper Diego Benaglio, only to (read more...)