Egypt vs Uruguay Predictions and Betting Tips, 15 Jun 2018

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Egypt v Uruguay Predictions for Friday's 2018 World Cup finals group fixture at Central Stadium in Yekaterinburg. Hector Cuper's squad selection will surely miss the quality of the 2017-18 Premier League best goalscorer Mohamed Salah, who was injured in the Champions League final three weeks ago, but the Egyptian is in the Pharaohs tournament squad but is unlikely to start here.

Match status: 2018 World Cup Group Stages
Kick-off: Friday 15 Jun 2018, 12:00pm GMT
Venue: Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg

Egypt Team News & Form

To say Egypt had an easy walk during their qualifying campaign in Africa would be a little exaggerated as The Pharaohs, despite winning the group with a four points lead, lost 1-0 to Uganda and drew 1-1 with Ghana in what had seemed to prove an overly dominated party for the Egyptians.

With Mohamed Salah an obvious blow to this Egypt team, add the fact Egypt have not celebrated a win since late November in 2017, five of the six disappointments were actually friendlies meant to serve as preparation for the World Cup; Moreover, they could only score one single goal in their last four, a late Ashraf goal against Kuwait, as they fell to Portugal (2-1), Greece (1-0) and Belgium (3-0) while drawing 0-0 with Colombia.

Uruguay Team News & Form

It always felt that Uruguay team were destined to fly to Russia when Oscar Tabarez's men won half of their games in the 2018 World Cup South America qualification party to finish 2nd which won them one of the four berths for the final tournament in Russia. Despite a 10-point gap on leaders Brazil, La Celeste rounded off their qualifying campaign three points clear of Argentina in third, with a +12 goal difference overall.

Uruguay were rather inactive in their warm-up on the road to Russia, having played just one friendly - a 3-0 success over Uzbekistan - since the South Americans sealed the China Cup with a 1-0 win against Wales following a 2-0 progress to the final at the expense of the Czech Republic. Although La Celeste hold a perfect record (W3) in 2018, there are still question marks around their current playing form.

Teams' Potential Starting Line-ups:

Egypt (4-2-3-1): Hadary; Shafy, Gabr, Hegazi, Fathy; Elneny, Hamed; Trezeguet, Said, Salah; Mohsen.

Uruguay (4-3-1-2): Muslera; Caceres, Godin, Gimenez, Varela; Nandez, Vecino, Bentancur; Arrascaeta; Suarez, Cavani.