THE FIFA CONFEDERATIONS CUP:TEAM BY TEAM ANALYSIS

GROUP B
URUGUAY 
            Uruguay come into this tournament after very successful and convincing World Cup and Copa America tournaments.They along with Spain and Italy are aiming to win the tournament to join Argentina and France as the teams that have won all FIFA tournaments.The Celeste,have had an indifferent world cup qualifying process.They have played 12,lost,drawn and won 4 times each,and have picked up 5 points from 21 avaliable.This leaves them with 16 points and 5 points behind Chile in the final automatic qualifying spot,although they have a game in hand.They have the 2nd worst record defensively conceding 21 whilst scoing 18.The team is coached by Oscar Tabarez.He has been at the helm since 2006,after previously been head coach from 1988-1990.As said he has been largely successful with Uruguay,taking a team that had failed to qualify for 3 out of the previous 4 world cups,to 4th place in the Copa America of 2007 and then 4th place in the World cup in 2010 and the Copa America of 2011.Uruguay are blessed with some of the best players in the world with the likes of Fernando Muslera,Alvaro and Maxi pereira,Diego Lugano,Christian Rodrguez,Nicholas Lodeiro,Gaston Ramirez,Luis Suarez,Diego Forlan and Edison Cavani.The Uruguains have sometimes played a 3-4-3 or a 4-4-2 formation in qualifying but i expect them to play a 4-3-3 system which they look more comfortabke with.Their full backs attack with pace from the back and they use a midfield of 1 holding midfielder ,1 controlling the midfielder and 1 attacking midfielder.Their 3 strikers,Suarez,Cavani and Forlan to me are as deadly as it can get.All 3 know each others game well and can interchange at anytime,knowing where to be,when to move.They are very dynamic and together they have various devastating traits that would dismantle any team in the world.Their centre back pairing at the Copa America of Lugano and Coates may not be the same as Diego Godin has had a by far better season than both and,both made 10 and 12 appearances respectively for there clubs all season.Players to watch for the initial world cup winners has to be the front trio of Suarez,Cavani and Forlan.Enough has been said about how they play already,looking at stats Cavani has 17 goals in 55 appearances,Forlan 33 goals in 98 appearances and Suarez 32 goals in 64 appearances.I personally feel Suarez will overtake Forlan in this tournamentas Uruguay's all-time top scorer,especially with a team like Tahiti in their group(no offence to them).Suarez may,also be playing for a move,I said may? Scratch that,Suarez is playing for a move seeing as how he has now been moulded into the Most hated player in England by the English media,he is desperate to leave amd has been giving Real madrid open invitations to come and take him ever since he joined up with the squad.Cavani is also another man who with a good performance may increase his suitors,as he is already pursued by the world's biggest clubs.Forlan will want to prove that he is stil the image of Uruguain football and will not want to leave the crown of all-time top scorer that easily.Other players like Gaston Ramirez and Christian Rodriguez will want to make amends for a slighlty below par season by their standards






Uruguay will be looking at this tournament as a means of sending a message to everyone that they still have the spark of 2010 & 2011 and are definitely one of the favourites.They will want to do better than their last appearance in this tournament when they finished 4th,especially since it is on South American soil.Their 3 forward men are also players out to prove a point in Brazil and with their deadly finishing don't bet against them delivering a deadly blow to the 7 other teams by winning the tournament.



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