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Mexico and Angola have problems up front ahead of their World Cup clash on Friday, and whichever team finds a solution should come out on top. The Mexicans scored three goals in their opening Group D match against Iran despite an injury to talismanic striker Jared Borgetti.
Borgetti is expected to miss the remaining group games, and coach Ricardo La Volpe is expected to push Omar Bravo, who hit two goals against Iran, further forward to partner Guillermo Franco in a 5-3-2 lineup.
8220;Jared is a loss to any team but we have plenty of faith in our other strikers,8221; captain Rafael Marquez told reporters. 8220;We scored three against Iran and Jared didn8217;t score any of them, that8217;s a signal of what the others are capable of. They are quality players and will do us proud.8221;
Debutants Angola also have concerns in attack, having created few chances in their 1-0 defeat by Portugal last Sunday. Captain and lone striker Akwa has appealed to coach Luis Oliveira Goncalves to change tactics and play a second man up front
.8220;We have Mantorras, Flavio, Andre Titi Buengo, Love, Mateus. I don8217;t care who it is,8221; he said earlier this week.
Match Officials:
Referee: Shamsul Maidin SIN, Assistant Referees: Prachya Permpanich THA, Eisa Ghuloum UAE, Fourth Official: Carlos Chandia CHI, Standby: Rodrigo Gonzalez CHI
Patrick Graham
