<p>Dan Ndoye opened the scoring for the Swiss in the 14th minute at San Diego before Australia debutant Tete Yengi levelled in the second half.</p><p>It was the final warm-up for both sides for the World Cup, which begins on Thursday.</p><p>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.</p><p>"<strong>I'm just happy. We've got no injuries. We've got through the game</strong>," Popovic said.</p><p>"<strong>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</strong>."</p><p>Australia, who are at their sixth successive World Cup, are in Group D alongside Turkey, co-hosts the United States and Paraguay.</p><p>The Swiss are pitted with Qatar, Bosnia-Herzegovina and co-hosts Canada in Group B.</p><p>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.</p><p>"<strong>If you ask every Australian, they expect to be right at the end because we always feel that we can punch above our weight,</strong>" he said.</p><p>"<strong>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.</strong>"</p><p>In Qatar four years ago, Australia made it through the group phase and gave eventual champions Argentina a scare in the last 16 before going out to a brave 2-1 defeat orchestrated by Lionel Messi.</p><p>"<strong>We want to go through, and that's the challenge that we have,</strong>" added Popovic.</p><p>"We want it to be a knockout stage where we know anything is possible.</p><p>"<strong>But if we peel it back, there's a lot of work to do until then, and we've got a really tough group, but I'd like to think that our opponents will see us as a tough task as well.</strong>"</p><p>Australia open their World Cup against Turkey in Vancouver on June 13, while the Swiss kick off against Qatar in San Francisco on the same day.</p>