Latvia will wait until just before kick-off before deciding whether to field Southampton striker Marian Pahars against the Czech Republic in their Euro 2004 opener on today.
Pahars has been struggling with a thigh injury since before coach Aleksandrs Starkovs named his 23-man squad to travel to Portugal.
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