Group C: Algeria, Slovenia, USA

ALGERIA: FIFA RANKING 30, ODDS TO WIN 500/1

Manager Rabah Saadane was an assistant coach to the team that created the greatest moment in Algeria's football history, when they beat West Germany 2-1 in their first World Cup appearance back in 1982 in Spain. He is now enjoying his fifth spell in charge of the national team, but the chances of Algeria achieving a similar result against England look slim as the north African nation is in dire form.

The experienced coach has so far failed to cure Algeria of their schizophrenic football. They qualified at the expense of Egypt, a team they would lose 4-0 to only a couple of months later in the African Cup of Nations. In that tournament at the start of the year in Angola, they beat Didier Drogba's highly fancied Ivory Coast 3-2, but only after they had been thrashed 3-0 in their opening game by lowly Malawi.