Friday, 15 June 2018

Fifa World Cup 2018 Uruguay vs Egypt: Line-ups out, Salah not starting

FIfa World Cup 2018: Egypt vs Uruguay updates; Salah-Suarez first battle

Trivia: 10,221 - This game ends a wait of 10,221 days for Egypt to play a game at a World Cup finals - the last was on June 21st 1990, when they lost 0-1 to England. Fifa World Cup 2018 Day 2 starts off with a screamer between Uruguay and Egypt. Here is the line-up:

Egypt line up: Mohamed El Shennawy (GK), Ali Gabr, Ahmed Hegazi, Abdelshafy, Ahmed Fathi (C), Tarek Hamed, Mohamed Elneny, Abdalla, M Trezeguet, Marwan, Warda.

Egypt formation: 4-2-3-1 

Egypt might have a troubled time with Salah on the bench as Mohamed Salah has scored 47% of Egypt's past 13 competitive goals. He also contributed to seven of their eight qualification goals despite missing the last match.

Without Salah’s goals in the last 10 games, Egypt has just scored twice.

Uruguay starts with 4-4-2 formation.

Full squad: Fernando Muslera, Jose Maria Gimenez, Diego Godin, Guillermo Varela, Martin Caceres, Rodrigo Bentancur, Nahitan Nandez, Matias Vecino, Luis Suarez, Giorgian De Arrascaeta, Edison Cavani

The Egypt team has arrived at the stadium ahead of the match. Here's is the first glance of the team.

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