Popovic named an experimental starting side, with seven changes from Australia's 1-0 defeat to Mexico last week, before reverting to a likely first-choice line-up for the second-half.

"I'm just happy. We've got no injuries. We've got through the game," Popovic said. "We got a result, that always helps and we scored a very nice goal. We need to start better, of course, next week, that will help us."

Australia, who are at their sixth successive FIFA World Cup, are in Group D alongside Turkey, co-hosts the United States and Paraguay. The Swiss are pitted with Qatar, Bosnia-Herzegovina and co-hosts Canada in Group B.

Popovic said he was encouraged by holding a near full-strength Swiss side ranked eight places above them at 19th and believes his youthful team can make it through to the knockout rounds.

"If you ask every Australian, they expect to be right at the end because we always feel that we can punch above our weight," he said.

"We've proven that time and time again in all sports, and we've done it in football. So we've shown what we can do."

Australia open their campaign against Turkey in Vancouver on June 13, while the Swiss kick off against Qatar in San Francisco on the same day.

Source: AFP