Luis Suarez starting for Uruguay against England
By Mike Dyce
Uruguay was stunned in their first World Cup 2014 match up against Costa Rica, a team perceived to be the weakest in the group coming into the tournament. They were without their dynamic striker Luis Suarez, who led Liverpool to a second place finish in the Premier League and led the league in scoring.
Suarez underwent a knee operation roughly a month before the start of the tournament and will make his debut against England on Thursday, Suarez is scheduled to start the game in the hopes of reinvigorating the Uruguayan offense.
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Chelsea FC manager Jose Mourinho knows Suarez well, and suggests that he will be problematic for the England team. With both teams looking for their first points of the tournament, a loss for England would be devastating.
“Suarez is a very important player for Uruguay. Uruguay had a very unexpected result in the first match, they are, as England, one defeat and goodbye. Suarez is coming back from injury and for sure, he feels his country deeply, the South American that plays in Europe, that lives in Europe. Eleven months in a year, they go back they want to be, they want to be magic to their team and when Suarez plays together with Cavani, the mobility, the understanding, the aggressiveness, the intensity is high and for sure it is going to create problems to the English side,” Mourinho, who is serving as Yahoo’s Global Football Ambassador, said.
“Obviously, they know them very well, especially Suarez because he plays in this country, they know everything about him. They know his amazing qualities as a player. They know also that he can find a penalty where nobody else finds, but really I think Suarez is going to create problems for England. It’s a big match, that I wait a