What are the fixtures to look out for?Īfter the title race between Manchester City and Liverpool went down to the wire last season, the first meeting between Pep Guardiola's and Jurgen Klopp's side will be one clash to look out for. The final is on Sunday, December 18 and Premier League action returns on Boxing Day. The opening match of the Qatar World Cup takes place on Monday, November 21 with the last Premier League fixtures before it taking place on the weekend of November 12/13. The first part will take place before the 2022 World Cup and the second after the World Cup concludes. The 2022-23 Premier League season will be unique as it will be split into two parts. The final day of the Premier League season takes place on Sunday, May 28. The opening weekend of the season takes place from Friday, August 5 to Sunday, August 7. The fixtures are released today, June 16 at 9am (BST). Here is all you need to know about the Premier League fixture announcement. The fixtures for the upcoming season will be revealed soon. Premier-league-fixtures-2022-2023-full-schedule-match-dates-games - GETTY IMAGES They replace Burnley, Watford and Norwich City. The three new promoted sides in the mix are Fulham, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest. Switzerland: Kobel Mbabu, F.The new Premier League season is not too far away despite the previous campaign only finishing at the end of May. Portugal: Rui Patrício João Cancelo, Pepe, Danilo, Nuno Mendes Otávio (Rafael Leão 77), William Carvalho (Matheus Nunes 84), Rúben Neves (Palhinha 77) Ronaldo, Diogo Jota (Ricardo Horta 67), Bruno Fernandes (Bernardo Silva 67) Switzerland are without a win in their last seven Nations League matches outside of Switzerland (D2 L5).Excluding their 3-0 awarded victory vs Ukraine, Switzerland's last win in the Nations League dates back to November 2018 against Belgium.Portugal have won six of their eight Nations League matches in Portugal (W6 D1 L1).The Seleção have lost only one of their previous 14 Nations League matches (W9 D4 L1).Portugal have lost only two of their last 11 international matches against Switzerland (W6 D3 L2).We conceded silly goals." Key statsĬristiano Ronaldo had another game to savour against Switzerland Getty Images From the 15th minute, it was a poor game from us. Gregor Kobel, Switzerland goalkeeper: "The alarm bells are ringing very loudly after a game like this. We were lucky in the first half that Portugal didn't score two or three more goals." As an away team, we let ourselves be countered – that mustn't happen. Granit Xhaka, Switzerland captain: "We started well and then we lost the game within five minutes. That's what we're going to focus on, but I think it was an excellent performance." Rúben Neves, Portugal midfielder: "We scored a lot of goals, created a lot of chances, played good football.
Switzerland created some problems, but we always found the right solutions." In the second half, the pace dropped the players are not machines. We could have scored one or two more in the first half. Reactionįernando Santos, Portugal coach: "I am a coach who is satisfied when I win and when the team plays as we rehearsed. Kobel had to be at his best to deny him another treble late on.
The Switzerland resistance ended after the second goal and the rest of the game seemed to be about how many more the hosts could add to their tally, with Ronaldo determined to rack up another hat-trick to his collection.
The 42,325 fans who attended the game tonight saw Portugal grab a clear win that sent them top of Group A2. As it happened: Portugal 4-0 Switzerland Carlos Machado, match reporter In the end, it was the Manchester City full-back who rounded off the scoring, tapping the ball past the onrushing Kobel and slotting into the empty net after good work from club-mate Bernardo Silva. João Cancelo enjoys his goal Getty Images