Under 19's: Heavy defeat for Malta

Malta suffered a heavy defeat today at the Regional Sports Centre in Waterford conceeding seven goals  against Switzerland, who are now emerging as the great favourites to win this group. Malta had the better start of the match and managed to go in front after just 8 minutes with a Guillaimier goal. Switzerland didn't take much time to change the scoreline and Hunziker equilized in the 27th minute. The same player scored on his own four more goals until the end. The other goals for the Swiss squad came from Pagliuca and Elvedi. This was not the first big win Switzerland managed to optain in the past months. Similar scorelines were obtained against Greece (10-0), Leichteinsten (11-0) and Gibraltar three days ago (8-0). The standings of this Group are now as follows:  Group 6 PPts Switzerland26 Republic of Ireland26 Malta20 Gibraltar20 The starting line-ups were:  MaltaSwitzerland1Shranz (GK)12Hofer (GK)3Brincat3Garcia715Micallef4Gebistorf6Scerri625Elvedi (C)717Zammit227Pagliuca588Grech8Sow10Degabriele (C)719Oberlin6111Mbong10Dominguez6114Ghio13Nguyen15J. Borg14Zakaria16Guillaumier815Hunziker2733637677Substitutes12Grech (GK)1Fellmann (GK)2Meli2Von Niederhäusern4Vella6Kleiner719Xuereb2211Trachsel13Attard16Joao De Oliveira6117Friggieri7117Milosavljevic18C. Borg6218Turkes61CoachesWayne Attard (MLT)Heinz Moser (SUI)RefereeRadu Petrescu (ROU)