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Gary Lineker introduces live coverage of the group A clash between South Africa and Uruguay.

The host nation are one of the lowest-ranked nations in the competition but will be banking on home support as they look to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first host nation not to progress beyond the group stages.

Uruguay, winners of the inaugural World Cup on home soil in 1930, could be one of the tournament's surprise packages. Their attack includes two of the best strikers in European football in Atletico Madrid's Diego Forlan and Ajax's Luis Suarez.