These two teams met once in their history and it was 12 years ago in a friendly game, which Uruguay won 2:0. Since then many things have changed. Uruguay is considered as the best team in group A. We expect a tough battle for the second place here between Egypt and Russia.
Uruguay reached semi-finals in 2010 and they are motivated to perform well once again here. Last 6 games they have 4W 1D 1L. Their squad has no missing players. Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani are expected to lead the attack today, both of them experienced enough to punish any mistake made by the Egypt’s defense.
Egypt reached the World Cup finals for the first time since 94’. They have 3 draws and 3 losses last 6 games. The manager Hector Cuper has a big problem as his star player – Mohamed Salah is not fully fit, however, there are some quality players as Elneny (Arsenal), Sobhi (Huddersfield), Hegazy and Gabr (West Brom) that perform in the English Premier League.
Egypt will most likely struggle as Salah is not 100% fit, and will not get any easier against the highly-fancied Uruguay side. Suarez and Cavani are capable of dealing damage to any team they face and today against Egypt they will have many opportunities to show their great goalscoring skills, while the Pharaohs will struggle to find a way past defensive duo Godin and Jose Jiménez.
We suggest taking Uruguay -0.5, -1.0 Asian Handicap at 1.70 with a medium stake. They are strong favorites here and we can easily see them winning with at least one goal in favour.
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