Britain will be looking to keep their Olympic fate in their own hands when they take on the United Arab Emirates at Wembley Stadium today at 2:45 p.m. ET.

The host of the 2012 Olympic Games have entered a British football team for the first time in 50 years, and the early signs were good in the team's opening match against Senegal at Old Trafford on Thursday that ended in a 1-1 draw.

"I saw nerves before the game," admitted manager Stuart Pearce. "A lot of our players have played Premier League football, but this cranked it up a bit. Late on in the game we ran out of a bit of gas and it went end to end at that stage.

"We would have liked to have gone on after getting our noses in front, but we are still in the mix, it's going to be a wide open group, and we have to take confidence from this. Physically, Senegal were a bigger side than us and more powerful. But that's not an excuse, we will come away from the match, have a good look at it and see where we go from there."

Meanwhile, UAE proved that they are capable to compete at this level following their hard-fought clash with Uruguay, but they buckled in the second period under a flow of pressure from the South American outfit.

Possible lineups: 

Team GB: Butland; Taylor, Caulker, Richards, Bertrand; Giggs, Cleverley, Allen, Rose, Bellamy, Sturridge; 

UAE: Ali Khaseif; Saad Surour, Abdulaziz Hussain, Mohamed Ahmad, Ali Alameri; Habib Fardan, Omar Abdulrahman, Mohamed Fawzi; Ahmed Ali, Ismaeil Matar 

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