This starting competition versus Uruguay will be an important one for both the French and Uruguay squads, specifically for France who is listed by 2010 world cup betting probabilities as the preference to win Group A. France is the high profile team nonetheless they really haven’t performed well recently. Their last friendly was an unimpressive 1- shutout loss to China several days ago. France wasn’t much better in a friendly versus Tunisia as they performed to a 1-1 draw. Making only one goal in 2 friendlies versus China and Tunisia is not the way to be coming into a World Cup.

The United States 23-man squad for the World Cup has been decided and the U.S. is expected to build some noise in world cup 2010 probabilities.