Fight or flight for
England, Uruguay
(AFP) – Heavyweights England and
Uruguay must revive their World Cup trusts or face the possibility of an early
flight home when they impact in a crunch Group D installation on Thursday.
Opening annihilation's to Italy and
Costa Rica individually have left both nations in threat of end with no place
for blunder in their last two pool recreations.
Crush in Sao Paulo would
doubtlessly spell fate for either Roy Hodgson's new-look England or two-time
victors Uruguay, who were unremarkable in their 3-1 misfortune to Costa Rica.
Both nations have inquiry stamps
over their strikers with brings in British media to either drop talisman Wayne
Rooney, or move him from the left to his favored focal part.
For Uruguay, Liverpool's Luis
Suarez, this current season's Premier League top-scorer with 31 objectives, is
situated to make his profit from keyhole surgery for his the meniscus in his
left knee a month ago.
Rooney set up England's objective
yet missed an opportunity to adjust throughout Saturday's 2-1 misfortune to
Italy, in a quelled presentation which had numerous faultfinders addressing his
spot.
The Manchester United forward, 28,
is still to score at a World Cup and when he was spotted preparing with the
stores on Monday, theory climbed that he had been hacked out.
Yet the English FA said Rooney had
asked for an additional preparing session while other first-group regulars preceded
their post-match recuperation.
Rooney whined "once in a while
(I) ponder what the press are getting at" on his Facebook page, while
Frank Lampard hit out at the fixation on his buddy.
"An obsession with one player
can get to be, as opposed to a level headed discussion, a bit of a plan,"
he said. "So I do think we have to drop the motivation and take a gander
at the group, whoever plays."
The hurricane encompassing Rooney
has commanded the construct up for young England, who won applause for their
striking methodology against Italy, exemplified by Raheem Sterling.
Then again, preventive delicacy
could come back to frequent them with issues down the left, while focus half
Gary Cahill was out-bounced by Mario Balotelli when heading the champ.
Uruguay have their own particular
stresses at the once again after their safeguard was over and over shaken by
Costa Rican strikers Joel Campbell, who is on Arsenal's books, and PSV
Eindhoven's Bryan Ruiz.
They will additionally be missing
Benfica safeguard Maxi Pereira, who was sent off for a foul on Campbell in the
last part of Saturday's diversion.
However England will be careful
about a strikeforce blending Paris Saint-Germain's Edinson Cavani with the
deadly Suarez, regardless of the possibility that he won't be completely
match-fit.
The construct up has not been short
of exaggeration with Uruguay mentor Oscar Tabarez calling it a "last"
and skipper Diego Lugano portraying it as "life and demise".
England's Daniel Sturridge, who was
on focus with a sweet first-time complete against Italy, said it would be
"do or pass on" in Sao Paulo.
"I'm ready to do anything, and
I'm talking anything. I'm being not kidding. It's do or bite the dust," he
told correspondents.
The competition goes again to May
1953, when objectives from Julio Cesar Abbadie and Omar Oscar Miguez saw off
England 2-1 in Montevideo. Uruguay lead the straight on 4-3, with three draws.
In their just World Cup gatherings,
holders Uruguay won 4-2 in the 1954 quarter-finals and they drew 0-0 in the
gathering stage in 1966, when England won their just World Cup title.
The most recent portion will be
refereed by Spain's Carlos Velasco Carballo, who is assuming responsibility of
his first World Cup finals diversion.
Both groups will keep a nearby eye
on the other Group D come about in the middle of Italy and Costa Rica, 2,000km
(1,200 miles) away in Recife on Friday
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