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Chelsea's Florent Malouda dropped after Raymond Domenech rift as Abou Diaby and Nicolas Anelka start for France vs Uruguay
Chelsea man handed watching brief
Reported disquiet in the French camp had seen stories emerge that the players had picketed Domenech to dump Bordeaux's Yoann Gourcuff and play Diaby. Instead, both Malouda and Barcelona's Thierry Henry will watch from the bench as Les Blues get their campaign underway with Chelsea's Nicolas Anelka leading the line.
Uruguay head coach Oscar Tabarez named his side yesterday, with exciting attacking duo Luis Suarez and Diego Forlan selected to lead the line. At the back, veteran Andres Scotti was dropped for Mauricio Victorino and Napoli midfielder Walter Gargano is out for Egidio Arevalo.
URUGUAY: Muslera; Lugano, Godin, Victorino, Perez; Pereira, Arevalo Rios, Gonzalez, Pereira; Forlan, Suarez.
FRANCE: Lloris; Sagna, Abidal, Gallas, Evra; Ribery, Toulalan, Diaby, Govou, Gourcuff; Anelka
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"But, we came through. Obviously there were a lot of changes so it's good to get the result.
"Belgium are a very, very strong side who are going to be really good in the future. Vincent [Kompany] told me about them and said that they were coming good and I totally agree with him."
"[Gary] Cahill I suppose is slightly more of a concern for me because it is a jaw injury. We're desperately hoping the CT scan doesn't show any fracture and it's just going to be a bruising situation, which will be bad enough, but won't stop him taking part in the tournament. As far as John's [Terry] concerned he felt his hamstring a little bit. Again it wasn't a major thing when he came off but we still need to scan it just to be 100 per cent sure."
Suffice to say, if Cahill has broken his jaw, he won't play any part in the tournament.
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