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REUTERS – Switzerland played like a team already eyeing next year’s Euro 2016 finals as they rounded off their qualifying campaign with a listless 1-0 win in Estonia on Monday.

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The Swiss, who sealed their place in next year’s finals with 7-0 win over San Marino on Friday which guaranteed second place in Group E, made chances but lacked urgency against a side needing a freakish set of results to claim a playoff spot.

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The game did come to life late on with Ats Purje wasting a good chance for Estonia before Breel Embolo’s trickery forced Ragnar Klavan to bundle the ball into his own net in stoppage time.

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Xherdan Shaqiri had been Switzerland’s most likely goalscorer in the first half before he was substituted.

The second half was littered with substitutions and stoppages before the late excitement.

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Switzerland ended with 21 points, nine behind group winners England who won all 10 of their games.

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Estonia ended with 10 points, six behind Slovenia who will enter the playoffs.

(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)

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