In rising from the bench to score a match-changing brace against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland starlet Johan Manzambi claimed a piece of World Cup history – but he could have taken even more.Aged 20 years and 247 days, the dreadlocked Freiburg midfielder became the youngest player in the competition’s history to score two or more goals as a substitute and the first man to achieve the feat in Switzerland’s colours.His goals, the first of which came less than two minutes after his introduction as a 72nd-minute replacement for Dan Ndoye, inspired Switzerland to a 4-1 success at SoFi Stadium that all but guaranteed a place in the knockout rounds for manager Murat Yakin’s side.But had skipper Granit Xhaka allowed him to take the 97th-minute penalty that completed the scoring, his entry in the World Cup history books would have required even more ink.If Manzambi had taken it and scored, he would have become the third-youngest player to register a World Cup hat-trick after a 17-year-old Pele against Sweden in the semi-finals in 1958 and 19-year-old German forward Edmund Conen against Belgium at the 1934 tournament.Xhaka scored a late penalty to wrap up the win for Switzerland (Getty Images)He would also have become only the second player in the competition’s history, after Hungary’s Laszlo Kiss against El Salvador in 1982, to plunder a treble after starting a game on the bench.So did he politely suggest to Xhaka that the veteran Sunderland midfielder step to one side and allow him to complete his hat-trick?“No, I didn’t say that!” Manzambi told The Athletic with a broad grin in the stadium mixed zone.“I just asked if he was taking it and he said: ‘Yes.’ He scored it, so I’m happy. I think the victory was more important than scoring a hat-trick.”For his part, Xhaka offered a prosaic explanation as to why he had not offered the penalty to his young team-mate.