1.   Lazio midfielder Diego Fuser will make his international debut while gifted Juventus striker Roberto Baggio has shaken off a thigh strain to play up front.

2.   -- Tuggle endured a painful left thigh strain Sunday that might bother him for a while.

3.   Cromer spent most of the season on the disabled list, recovering from reconstructive elbow surgery and later for a right thigh strain.

4.   Eric Fields starts for Stephen Trejo at linebacker, and free safety Phillip Brown replaces Mitchell Freedman, who is sidelined because of a thigh strain.

5.   The replacement Coach Berti Vogts likes best, Thomas Strunz, has himself been nursing a thigh muscle strain.

6.   Van Exel has been bothered by a variety of nagging hurts -- back spasms, a hip pointer and a thigh strain.

7.   Peruzzi left the Azzurri camp on the outskirts of Rome Friday afternoon after team doctors determined his thigh strain would keep him out of the crucial away leg.

8.   Pistons sixth man Terry Mills also was sidelined with a thigh strain.

9.   A few minutes after scoring his sixth season goal, Assuncao limped off the field with a light thigh strain and was replaced by fellow-Brazilian Francisco Lima.

10.   A thigh strain slowed him down.