With a view to the World Cup Next year, teams will look for rivals who can compete with their teams Uruguay He has a powerful rival on the horizon. The Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) confirmed a friendly match for FIFA’s March date, which will be the last in the run-up to the 2026 World Cup, against Englandat Wembley Stadium.
The AUF published the information this Wednesday and the rival of Marcelo Bielsa’s team will be a European power that will be in the game Group L of the World Cup together with Croatia, Ghana and Panama. This game against the British is planned on Friday, March 27, in London.
The friendly match will be part of the Uruguayan team’s preparation for the World Cup. Group H with Spain, Saudi Arabia and Cape Verde. This meeting will be the twelfth between both teams So far, the top team has won five of these games, three have ended in a draw and England have won the remaining three.
The first was a friendly match in 1953 that ended in a 2-1 win for Uruguay, while the first World Cup match took place in Switzerland in 1954. Uruguay won 4-2 with goals from Carlos Borges, Obdulio Varela, Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Javier Ambrois.
England’s first victory came in a friendly in 1964, in which the team featuring the likes of Gordon Banks and Bobby Charlton won 2-1 thanks to two goals from Johnny Byrne. Two years later, at the 1966 World Cup in England, they met in a game that ended goalless.
The last time the Uruguayans and the English faced each other was a memorable game at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The Uruguayan team won 2-1 thanks to two goals from Luis Suárez, who recovered from injury and took the field for the first time in the tournament that day.
The team of Marcelo Bielsa In the last few games he did not show his best version as he played two friendly matches and failed to win in any of them. First there was a 0-0 draw against Mexico at the Territorio Santos Modelo stadium, and then was defeated by the United States 5-1at Raymond James Stadium.
The fall with the USA caused instability in Bielsa’s system, so much so that the post-match press conference was so tense that a Uruguayan reporter, Mario Martínez, told the Argentine coach in the first question what his team had done against the Americans.broke his eyesand asked if there was an explanation for “the catastrophe“.
Bielsa’s answer didn’t look for excuses and was clear: “It is assumed that there is no way to defend the performance. Then try to say things that you think, rather than something that will clarify the answer. I don’t feel like I’m complaining about anyone and I feel like after a performance like today, the way I run the game takes a hit.
England’s progress is greater ahead of their upcoming clash with Uruguay, having beaten Serbia 2-0 at Wembley and Albania by the same score at Arena Kombëtare in the qualifiers.
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