Swiss target opening win

Switzerland will launch an all-out attack on Croatia in tomorrow’s Group B opener in a bid to lay the platform for qualification for the knock-out stages.

Hamburg midfielder Raphael Wicky knows that, with reigning European champions France and Sven-Goran Eriksson’s England to come, defeat by Otto Baric’s side would leave the Swiss with a mountain to climb, and to that end, they are determined to get a result from their first match in Leiria.