On day nine of the World Cup in Brazil. BBC Weather's Tomasz Schafernaker looks at conditions in Recife, Salvador and Curitiba.

The video can be watched on the BBC Weather page.

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Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon (pictured) and left-back Mattia De Sciglio are back in training but a late decision will be made on their availability. Centre-half Andrea Barzagli and defensive midfielder Daniele De Rossi picked up minor knocks earlier in the week and will be assessed.

Costa Rica look set to continue with the 5-4-1 formation that served them so well in a 3-1 win over Uruguay. Joel Campbell is again expected to lead the line, with Bryan Ruiz breaking from an advanced right position.

Live coverage is on BBC One from 16:00 BST, with live commentary also on BBC Radio 5 live.

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BBC Sport in Recife

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"Welcome to Arena Pernambuco in Recife, where England's World Cup fate could be decided when Italy play Costa Rica later today.

"England need Italy to win. Any other result means England are out."

Italy v Costa Rica is live on BBC One from 16:00 BST with live commentary also on BBC Radio 5 live.

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England captain Steven Gerrard says that his side were not streetwise enough once they pulled level with Uruguay midway through the second half and left themselves open to Luis Suarez's winner.

"I just thought when we got the equaliser today we just needed to be a bit more clever, a bit more cute and a bit more difficult to beat," he told the Football Association., external

"Maybe we should have accepted that going for a point might have been the best option.

"The second goal, I've gone to try and get good contact on the ball and I haven't got good enough contact on it and I've been punished for it."

BBC Sport's Chris Bevan in Rio de Janeiro

"The not so Fab Four? Most Brazilian newspapers have got pictures of a grinning Luis Suarez on their front page today but sports paper 'Lance!' has used England's latest defeat as an excuse for a pastiche of the cover of The Beatles' classic 'Abbey Road'.

"I would have gone for 'Help!' as a headline myself."

There are a couple of corking statistics in the Times today.

Since Brazil last lost a competitive home game - 3-1 to Peru in September 1975 - the country's population has almost doubled and one sixth of the Amazon rainforest has been felled.

Only one of the 736 players at this World Cup was born at the time of that defeat: Faryd Mondragon, Colombia's 42-year-old reserve goalkeeper.

Brazil's next game in the tournament is against Cameroon on Monday.

Italy and Costa Rica play in a vital World Cup Group D game in Recife at 17:00 BST. It's a city that brims with colour and has beaches to rival Rio. But avoid going for a dip in the sea otherwise the sharks may get you. Find out more in this episode of Brazil's Soccer Cities.

Italy v Costa Rica is live on BBC One, with the programme starting at 16:00 BST.

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In the Times, chief football correspondent Oliver Kay writes that a more adventurous England have posed a greater threat to themselves than to their opponents at the tournament.

"England have shown more attacking promise in Brazil but this heightened sense of adventure has only succeeded, in the short term, in turning a functional team into a fragile one," he writes., external

"Even if the goals they have conceded can be put down to individual lapses, England have gone from being not good enough with the ball to not good enough without it."

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Players union FifPro has accused Fifa of failing to protect players after Uruguay's Alvaro Pereira played on after apparently being knocked unconscious against England.

Pereira lay motionless after colliding with Raheem Sterling's knee in the 61st minute of his side's 2-1 victory on Thursday but, after treatment, was allowed to return to the pitch in the 63rd minute.

FifPro has urged Fifa "to conduct a thorough investigation into its own competition concussion protocol".

Pereira has apologised to team medical staff who attempted to have him substituted but were pushed aside by the midfielder.

"I went back on dizzy. But in the heat of the moment with a hot head you don't think properly," he said.

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Wayne Rooney was moved to a central role against Uruguay after being played out wide on the left in the defeat to Italy.

He was more involved, touching the ball 56 times compared to 43, and posed more of a threat on goal, scoring, hitting the woodwork and registering two shots on target compared to none on his previous outing.

His pass completion rate dropped to 60% however and he lost the ball on 18 occasions rather than eight.

They don't get any better, however long the day goes on.

• England manager Roy Hodgson insists he will not resign after his side were pushed to the brink of World Cup elimination by Thursday's 2-1 defeat to Uruguay.

• Uruguay match-winner Luis Suarez says victory brought him retribution against his critics in England.

• England need Italy to beat Costa Rica tonight and the Azzurri to win against Uruguay on Tuesday, along with a win themselves over Costa Rica, to make the last 16.

Will, Burney via text: We seem to have lost the point a little here and using inexperience as an excuse for elimination. The defence was all over the shop in both games and we have well over 150 caps between the players at the back.

"We were also supposed to be playing attacking football, yet when we had the ball, we still had 6 or 7 outfield players refusing to leave our half."

Chris, London via text: What I don't understand is how teams like Australia and Uruguay with unrecognised centre backs and unrecognised players throughout the team and yet play great football and be very organised and well set up.

Uruguay were 'supposed' to be weak at the back. Look at England! We need to now find our most promising full backs and nurture them, I'm thinking Steven Caulker to be the rock alongside Gary Cahill with right backs Nathaniel Clyne and Luke Chambers being the future in our weakest position.

If England go out in the group stages, and that is surely the likeliest outcome for Roy Hodgson's men now, then have they underperformed?

That was the question put to England fans in last night's live text commentary. Sixty-one per cent of those who answered said that we should expect more from England, despite being in a group with two teams higher in the Fifa rankings., external

Having slept on England's defeat, what are your thoughts? #bbcworldcup on Twitter,, external the BBC Sport Facebook page, external and 81111 on text are the places to tell us.

Former England striker Emile Heskey says that England have been a "major disappointment" at the World Cup and he believes that their slim hopes of progressing beyond the groups stages can be written off.

"I can't see it. It's out of our hands now," he told Goal.com., external

"We are clutching at straws. Costa Rica are capable of getting a draw, they looked lively in their first game, Joel Campbell in particular.

"It is a big surprise that England are in this position. Before the tournament, I thought we had enough to win the first game - against Italy - and get a draw with Uruguay. So it's major disappointment."

Pictures have emerged on social media of a Brazil fan, external apparently standing up out of her wheelchair to watch the action at one of the hosts' first two group games.

It raises fears that some of the concession tickets reserved for disabled fans may be being sold on the black market.

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Uruguay striker Luis Suarez lost the ball 24 times in last night's win over England.

I'm not sure if sticking it in the back of the net on two occasions and England kicking off again count towards that total.

He was also uncharacteristically reluctant to run at the England defence, not attempting a single dribble.

He was very efficient once he saw the whites of the goalposts however. He had a total of four attempts on goal and scored with the two that he got on target.

Time for your lunchtime dose of trivia.

Today's Question of Sport Teaser from @QuestionofSport is which four players have scored more than five goals at the World Cup for Italy?

Answers on a Twitter postcard to #QSTeaser.

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Leighton Baines believes both Italy and Uruguay have shown the ruthlessness that punishes the slightest defensive lapse at international level.

"I don't think we have given up too many chances in the two games, but when we have, we have been punished," he said after Roy Hodgson's side went down 2-1 to La Celeste on Thursday evening.

"Suarez is a top player. He didn't put himself about as much as he normally would but looked like he was always waiting for that moment, that opportunity to pounce, and he did.

"You are at the top level of the game and it is small margins."

Former England defender Sol Campbell believes that England coach Roy Hodgson should have made room in his side for more experience.

"There's a balance. You've got to strike a balance between experience and the youth players coming in, who are trying to make an international career anyway. Maybe that balance hasn't been struck," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

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Might last night's two goals be the last time we see Luis Suarez ransacking an English defence for a while?

Spanish sports newspaper Mundo Deportivo have the Uruguayan striker on the front for different reasons to most.

They claim that a deal to take Suarez from Liverpool to Barcelona are "very advanced",, external and that, by included Chilean attacker Alexis Sanchez in the deal, the Catalans will have to stump up less than the £68m demanded by a release clause in the former Ajax man's contract.