Uruguay's players, on the other hand, are scattered across the globe playing for teams as varied as Newcastle United to FC Porto. If Suarez and Forlan can find space early, expect Uruguay to also find the back of the net (Rule number one of the WC live blogs: the goal will not be referred to as an onion bag.)
1 Fernando Muslera
2 Diego Lugano
3 Diego Godin
6 Mauricio Victorino
17 Egidio Arevalo
15 Diego Perez
18 Ignacio Gonzalez
11 Alvaro Pereira
16 Maxi Pereira
9 Luis Suarez
10 Diego Forlan
If you're a fan of Arsenal or Chelsea you'll recognize about half of your respective team. France fields a pretty standard team. Everyone expected Henry to start from the bench and that's just where he'll be.
1 Hugo Lloris
3 Eric Abidal
5 William Gallas
13 Patrice Evra
2 Bacary Sagna
19 Abou Diaby
14 Jeremy Toulalan
21 Nicholas Anelka
8 Yoann Gourcuff
7 Franck Ribery
10 Sidney Govou
Now Referee, Players of both team are going to the field.
Uruguay is singing own national song.
Now France singing.
Referee :Yuichi Nishimura (Japan).
The game is start.
at 07 minute:
it's a great miss for france. Reveri made a very nice cross. but just touch...
at 16 minute:
Forlan's shot. it's so speedy and nice shot but France goalkeeper just punch.
19 min:
Franck Ribery gets booked for hanging out of the shirt of ... somebody. Despite being from Japan, the referee manages to do everything in the right order, blowing his whistle, removing the card from his pocket, writing the correct player's number on the back of it and then holding it up in the air. Well done, Yuici Nishimura! Well done, you. Mark Lawrenson, Steve Wilson and the rest of the BBC team will be very impressed, what this being such a big game and you being a funny foreigner.
25 min:
Still scoreless - it's a decent enough match and there have been two or three good chances, but it's considerably more pedestrian than the opener between South Africa and Mexico.
27 min:
Abou Diaby slaloms down the right flank and crosses the ball into the Uruguay penalty area. There's one ... two .. three ... four ... five Urugay players in there waiting to clear and not a Frenchman in sight.
29 min:
Yes, his fault. Paolo Bandini of Serie A expertise fame. It seems he's too big-time to bother with trifles like setting up very important minute-by-minute reports for his elders and betters.
30 min:
In for Florent Malouda, much to the considerable indignation of the French nation, Abou Diaby is having a great game. He almost puts Sidney Go9uvou clean through on goal with a curling pass from deep that's intercepted by Nicolas Anelka in an offside position. The linesman flags, managing to successfully wave the garish cloth bit at the end of the stick in his hand, despite being from Japan. If Anelka had left that ball alone, Govou would have been clean through on goal and onside.
34 min:
Forlan drops deep, picks up the ball, turns and charges towards the edge of the France penalty area. Suarez darts out to the right channel and his strike partner pings the ball his way. Offside! That's very careless on the part of Suarez - there was no reason for him to get caught offside there.
35 min:
"He's been good, y'know, the referee," says BBC match analyst Mark Lawrenson, managing to sound amazed. England's match official Howard Webb is probably listening to this commentary, beseeching assorted BBC broadcasters to stop ratcheting up the pressure on him by repeatedly patronising refs who are "not used to big games". It'll just make him look even more of an idiot, come the inevitable gaffe.
39 min:
"I watched the game this afternoon and it's the last SA game I will watch," writes Anthony O'Connell in Dublin, before adding his voice to the incessant, irritating drone of people complaining about vuvuzelas. "The noise of those poxy horns it's like wavin pipe. Also the lads on Off The Ball likened them to air horns, but at least they run out of air. Also reminds me of that fat bloke ringing the bell at Pompey! Jesus, me head was wrecked. Seriously RTE got a lot of calls from people thinking there was something wrong with the sound." People in South Africa celebrating the World Cup in a traditional South African manner. How dare they?
Half time Uruguay 0 - France 0
Now start 2nd half.
47 min:
Uruguay win a throw-in deep inside their own half. Alvaro Perreira takes it and assorted team-mates of his ping the ball around midfield. Ignacio Gonzalez moves it forward, trying to pick out Diego Forlan, but William Gallas clears.
50 min:
A free-kick for Uruguay, over by the touchline, about 45 yards from the France goal. It's swung in towards the far post, where Abou Diaby performs heroics to leap highest and head the ball out towards the far touchline, when Godin was lurking behind him. Moments later, the ball is sent into the mixer again, this time Gallas clears, but gets accidentally hoofed in the knackers by Diego Forlan for his troubles. He'll live.
55 min:
From 40+ yards out from goal, Jeremy Toulalan tries his luck. The Jabulani fizzes in the air before bouncing in front of Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera, who gets down to his right to save comfortably.
59 min:
Uruguayan defender Mauricio Victorino gets booked for a late tackle on Patrice Evra. Free-kick for France in the left channel, in line with the edge of the 18 yard box.
62 min:
Bacary Sagna fouls Luis Suaraz, conceding a free-kick to Uruguay, five yards outside the France penalty area, in line with the left-hand side of it. Forlan sends a fizzing shot over the wall, it bounces in front of Hugo Lloris and the goalkeeper claims.
64 min:
Just before that free-kick, Uruguay made a susbtitution: Ignacio Gonzalez off, Ajax's Nicolas Lodeiro on. Just after that, Patrice Evra was very lucky not to get sent off, going in with a late tackle that could easily have earned him a second yellow.
66 min: The referee blows for a France free-kick when goalkeeper Hugo Lloris and Luis Suarez contested a high ball on the edge of the six-yard box. Lloris dropped the ball, but Suarez was ajudged to have fouled him, as is customary when a striker jumps in the same postal distract as an opposition goalkeeper.
68 min:
Jeremy Toulalan gets booked for a late, clumsy lunge on Alvaro Perreira, prompting Uruguay captain Diego Lugano to go forehead to forehead with the French midfielder. Raymond Domenech saunters on to the pitch to try to sort it out and is promptly ushered off by the fourth official.
70 min:
Suarez picks up the ball on the right wing, cuts inside and tries to nutmeg Eric Abidal with a view to running around him to collect the ball and pick out Diego Forlan in space. Abidal blocks the ball.
71 min:
With the match drifting away from his side, Raymond Domenench makes a long overdue substitution. It's a straight swap: Thierry Henry for Nicolas Anelka. I'm surprised he hasn't hauled off Sidney Govou, who's done nothing in this second half.
75 min:
Amid all the administrative housework involved on my part with those substitutions, Diego Forlan had a good chance to put Uruguay one up. From a long throw, Luis Suarez headed the ball into his path and unmarked from 15 yards, he rifled a low drive a couple of feet wide of Hugo Lloris's right upright.
77 min:
"Crazy shot time! Let's go!" Tweets MFUSA in the Twitter feed that's somehow found it's way on to the right-hand side of this minute-by-minute report.
79 min:
Malouda tries a shot from distance. It's a good effort, flashing across the face of goal and ultimately wide, but giving Fernando Muslera plenty to think about along the way.
RED CARD! The first red card of the tournament goes to the Uruguay substitute Nicolas Lodeiro, who picks up his second yellow card for a ridiculously late and quite dangerous tackle on Bacary Sagna. His first was for was kicking the ball away and he walks off 20 minutes after taking to the field without a word of complaint. Truth be told, he could have had a red card for that tackle alon - on the stretch and with studs up, he caught Sagna right on his instep.
83 min:
On the left flank, Franck Ribery cuts inside Arvelo Rios and tries to get a cross into the penalty area. It's blocked. The ball goes out for a throw-in and France make their third substitution: Andre Pierre Gignac on, Sidney Govou off.
85 min:
"A Uruguayan red card?" writes Gary Naylor. "I'm all nostalgic." Yup, takes me back too, although it wasn't a really dirty foul, in the grand old tradition of this great South American nation.
87 min:
Uruguay substitituion: Maxi Pereira off, Eguran on.
88 min:
From the right wing, France cross the ball into the Urtuguay penalty area. The ball bounces up and hits Eguran on the hand - Thierry Henry, of all people, appeals for a penalty. Oh, the irony. The referee, quite correctly, doesn't give one.
90+1 min:
Gignac, who is a centre-forward by trade, has been stationed out on the right wing, where Florent Malouda should be but isn't - he's playing centre-forward. Gignac tries to get a cross in, but his effort is blocked.
90+3:
Free kick from Henry but no destination.
Full time: Uruguay 0 - France 0
This game is closed. Each team got one point. Good bye for today.
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