Referee: Howard Webb (England)
LINEUPS:
Spain (442): Casilias, Ramos, Capdevila, Puyol, Pique (Fabregas 68'), Busquets, Alonso, Xavi (Silva 68'), Villa, Torres, Iniesta (Navas 86')
Switzerland (442): Benaglio, Lichtsteiner, Ziegler, Grichting, von Bergen, Huggel, Inler (Behrami 61'), Barnetta, Nkufo (Padalino 82'), Derdiyok, Fernandez (Frei 61')
Spain did enough to win, even without their usual amount of possession, and it only took four minutes for Fernando Torres to finish off Iniesta's neatly chipped ball into the box. After that Switzerland were able to exert some pressure on one of the tournament favourites with Eren Derdiyok unlucky to not score on Nkufo's far post cross; his header blocked on the line. The resulting corner found Derdiyok again but Iker Casillas was quick to save.
The Swiss continued to enjoy passages of play where they probed around the Spanish defence without much penetration, and Spain had more chances to score but Alonso (over) and Pique (wide) missed in good scoring positions.
Switzerland came close to equalising early in the second half when Derdiyok turned provider, his strong run and cross unrewarded when Blaise Nkufo completely missed the ball with a lot of goal to shoot at. Six minutes later and the game was over with Spain piling on the Swiss through a series of corners, ultimately making one count through Andres Iniesta.
The final talking point was a second yellow card to Reto Zeigler to make him the third player sent off in two days. He will be unavailable for the Switzerland v Chile game.
Spain 2 - 0 Switzerland
Goalscorers:
ESP Torres 4'
ESP Iniesta 60'
Discipline:
SUI Zeigler 29'
ESP Pique 46'
SUI Zeigler 73' (Off)
Man of the Match:
ESP Andres Iniesta
| GROUP H | ||||||||
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 3 |
| Chile | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 |
| Honduras | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
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