Switzerland 1-1 Australia: Ndoye on target as spoils shared in final warm-up

Neither Switzerland nor Australia will head into the World Cup on the back of a win after they played out a 1-1 draw in their last warm-up game.

Dan Ndoye's first-half strike for Switzerland was cancelled out by Tete Yengi just before the hour mark, with neither side managing to find a winner at Snapdragon Stadium.

Yengi could have scored within the opening five minutes, but saw his header from Nestory Irankunda's cross fly wide, while Ndoye also saw an effort smothered by Patrick Beach at the other end.

Switzerland eventually broke the deadlock in the 14th minute as Ndoye took in a brilliant pass from Granit Xhaka before slotting into the bottom-right corner from inside the box.

Ndoye had another great chance on the stroke of half-time, but was denied by the legs of Beach, and Switzerland were made to rue the miss as Yengi tapped into an unguarded net from Connor Metcalfe's centre after the break.

Switzerland looked more likely to score the winner, and perhaps should have through substitute Cedric Itten in the 79th minute, but his header from Miro Muheim's cross went narrowly over the crossbar.

Food for thought for Switzerland

This was the first time in seven games in which Switzerland had not won after leading at half-time, and a draw was the fair result in San Diego.

Switzerland produced 1.42 expected goals (xG) from nine shots to Australia's 1.03 from five attempts, though the Swiss did create three big chances to Australia's one.

All three of Switzerland's big chances fell Ndoye's way; he has now scored one goal in five of his last six internationals, though Switzerland have won only one of the last four such games (D2 L1).

Murat Yakin will be glad his main attacker is still scoring, but he will be hoping to see a more clinical nature from his side ahead of their next game, which will be their World Cup opener against Qatar on June 13.

Meanwhile, this is the third consecutive year in which Australia have had a player score a goal on their international debut (Yengi in 2026, Max Balard in 2025, Nishan Velupillay in 2024) after only one player had done so across the previous four years (Jason Cummings in 2022).

Anthony Popovic will want his new players to maintain their desire to score with their first game of the World Cup coming on June 14 against Turkiye.