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Switzerland’s chief creator, Tranquillo Barnetta, is expected to start in place of the suspended Valon Behrami, having been surprisingly left out against Chile. Philippe Senderos is still sidelined with the ankle injury he suffered in the opening match.
Honduras coach Reinaldo Rueda could recall all-time leading scorer Carlos Pavon for a game Honduras need to win to have a chance of qualifying. Georgie Welcome is another alternative to partner Inter Milan striker David Suazo. (BBC Sport)

Switzerland know that victory in Bloemfontein will lead them to the final 16 and surely Ottmar Hitzfeld’s side will manage to ease past the Group H whipping boys to cement progress to the knock out stages and all they need to guarantee qualification is a two goal victory against the Central American side.

Highlights of previous World Cup group games these two sides have taken part in.

Chile 1-0 Switzerland

Chile 1-0 Switzerland (Highlights)

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Spain 2-0 Honduras

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Spain 1-0 Honduras (Villa)

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Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque is considering a recall for striker Fernando Torres alongside David Villa, with defensive midfielder Sergio Busquets set to make way.
Defender Sergio Ramos should overcome a rib injury, while Andres Iniesta is doubtful following a heavy challenge that forced his substitution against Switzerland.
Honduras could again be without Inter Milan forward David Suazo, who missed their opening game with a thigh muscle injury.
One booking from suspension: Wilson Palacios (Honduras) (BBC Sport)

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Switzerland’s win over favourites Spain was perhaps the shock of the World Cup thus far but luckily for Vicente del Bosque he gets the chance to bounce back immediately against minnows Honduras. With all due respect to their Central American opposition, David Villa, Fernando Torres and co should be able to pick up their first three points of the campaign in Johannesburg.

Highlights of World Cup group games that these two have taken part in.

Spain 0-1 Switzerland

Honduras 0-1 Chile

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Both nations are sweating on the fitness of a striker named Suazo. Honduran David Suazo, of Inter Milan, is struggling to recover in time from a leg muscle injury, while Chile’s main goalscorer Humberto Suazo is nursing a left thigh problem.
Neither player was originally expected to feature in this game but both remain hopeful of being involved. If they miss out, Georgie Welcome of Honduras and Chile’s Esteban Paredes are the favourites to take their place.
Honduras midfielder Julio Cesar de Leon has emerged as a doubt with a hamstring injury, although Tottenham’s Wilson Palacios has overcome a thigh complaint. West Brom’s Gonzalo Jara is poised to start in Chile’s three-man defence, but midfielder Rodrigo Millar is struggling with a calf strain. (BBC Sport)

Chile are a team that probably deserve more attention than they get. Marcelo Bielsa led his side to second place in World Cup qualifying, just one point from Brazil. During the qualification, with the help of prolific striker Humberto Suazo who finished the top scorer overall with ten goals, they managed terrific wins over Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

They should have enough about them to beat Honduras who are one of the weakest teams at the tournament but could still have a sting in their tail and have Tottenham’s excellent defensive midfielder Wilson Palacios among a trio of Premier League players among their squad.

Highlights of recent warm up games the two teams have taken part in.

Honduras 0-3 Romania

Chile 2-0 New Zealand

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With many having already written South Africa 2010 off as a tournament to forget before it has even begun, one wonders what the seemingly irrepresible doubters would have to say if Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Petr Cech, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Samuel Eto’o were all absent from the tournament. Would this be a good thing? Definetly not. With Portugal, Argentina and France – three genuine contenders and obvious favourites to win the competition each time it comes around in the minds of most – all potentially not boarding planes to Johannesburg, the World Cup would become a five-horse race between Brazil, Germany, Spain, Holland and England.

With all due respect to the two teams currently ahead of Argentina in the South American qualifying group – Chile and Paraguay – they can beat Argentina and Brazil in as many qualifiers as they like, but it’s hardly likely they’re going to be able to pull of enough upsets to win the World Cup. Italy, too, can not be considered clear contenders for their own crown in my opinion – no team, no matter what they did four years ago, who is humbled by Egypt and massacred by Brazil in the Confederations Cup can hope to be taken seriously as potential World Championships. Especially not in a squad of players aged, on average, 30. 30! No, without these big name nations – and their star players particularly – the World Cup will be even less of a success (in terms of the quality of the spectacle produced) than the sea of cynics are currently suggesting it will be. True, organisation and travel were near-disastrous in the Confed. Cup, but football fans would rather travel four hours in the pitch black through hordes of striking builders and angered, potentially violent locals to watch Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi than they would do to see Slovakia’s Marek Mintal or Gabon’s Fabrice Do Marcolino.

Yes, you heard me right – Slovakia and Gabon. While it is true we were all surprised when Togo made an appearance at the 2006 Finals, we can now see, fully aware of Emmanuel Adebayor, how they managed the miracle. Gabon, however, is another matter. Hull striker Daniel Cousin, who will be 33 when the World Cup comes around, is probably their most famous player, and they have never surpassed the Group Stages of the African Nations Cup. As for Slovakia, it is practically unheard of for a World Cup debutant to qualify from the highly proven and competitive European Qualifying section, never mind it by winning their group. Of course, it is superb that surprise packages such as these, as well as North Korea and (potentially) New Zealand and Bosnia-Herzegovina, continue to challenge our perhaps old-fashioned international football stereotypes. But anybody who says they’d rather see these minnow nations in South Africa come July 2010 than Portugal, Argentina, France or even Sweden, Mexico or the Czech Republic, is kidding themselves.

One minnow whose appearance in the Finals I certainly do look forward to is Honduras. Currently 3rd in a tightly-contested CONCACAF qualifying group ahead of Mexico and behind Costa Rica and the USA, the tiny Hondurans’ success should perhaps not come as such a surprise to us familiar with the talents of Wilson Palacios, his emminent Tottenham teammate Osmar Chavez and Wigan pair Maynor Figueroa and Hendry Thomas.

Although not as well equipped to face the World’s elite as faltering giants Mexico, who made up half of 2006′s one standout clash, incidentally with fellow big-name strugglers Argentina, it would be delightful to see Palacios and the rest of the European-based contingent (not forgetting Toronto FC playmaker Amado Guevara) make a name for themselves on the biggest stage. It would also present a fantastic opportunity for several of the undiscovered gems of North American football to put themselves in the shopping window. After all, on the evidence of Hendry Thomas and (probably) Osmar Chavez’s moves to the Premier League this Summer alone, there certainly seems to be a demand amongst English clubs for a Honduran fighting spirit – spirit they have needed in matches with fierce rivals El Salvador, whom they fought a war with in 1970 over no reason other than football.

And they we all were, doubting the footballing heritage of these “littler” countries – when was the last time England cared enough about winning football matches to go to war over it?.

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