This game won't be major but will certainly give the Eagles and opportunity to prove they are world class side. It will be an even bigger opportunity for Russia.
They will make their World Cup debut but aren't statistically the "worst" side in the tournament, that would be the Namibians who are ranked 20th but have been too a world cup before . Russia however, have not. I am worried for them, the USA aren't a fantastic side but could still bring them down and run over them with tries. And with the likes of Ireland, Australia and Italy in their group it looks a tough task ahead.
But it doesn't stop there, in Russia's warmup game against Gloucester last month they scored one try and Gloucester came out with a fairly makeshift side and still beat the World Cup minnows by 47 points to 7.
Read more to view ones to watch, the team line-ups and our predicted score.
As for the Eagles it doesn't look much better either. In their clash with Ireland they did put on a good show for about the first thirty minutes at least, but captain Todd Clever will certainly hope to spur on his side to a big victory.
Scrum Five's prediction: USA to win 28-12
Ones to watch: Takudzwa Ngwenya (USA) and Igor Klyuchnikov (Russia)
Teams
15 September 2011
USA Line-up: 15 Chris Wyles, 14 Takudzwa Ngwenya, 13 Paul Emerick, 12 Andrew Suniula, 11 James Paterson, 10 Roland Suniula, 9 Mike Petri, 1 Mike MacDonald, 2 Chris Biller, 3 Mate Moeakiola, 4 John van der Giessen, 5 Hayden Smith, 6 Louis Stanfill, 7 Todd Clever, 8 Nic Johnson
Replacements: 16 Phil Thiel, 17 Shawn Pittman, 18 Scott LaValla, 19 Pat Danahy, 20 Tim Usasz, 21 Nese Malifa, 22 Blaine Scully
Russia Line-up: 15 Igor Klyuchnikov, 14 Vladimir Ostroushko, 13 Konstantin Rachkov, 12 Alexey Makovetskiy, 11 Vasily Artemyev, 10 Yury Kushnarev, 9 Alexander Shakirov, 1 Sergey Popov, 2 Vladislav Korshunov, 3 Ivan Prishchepenko, 4 Alexander Voytov, 5 Denis Antonov, 6 Andrey Garbuzov, 7 Artem Fatakhov, 8 Vyacheslav Grachev
Replacements: 16 Valery Tsnobiladze, 17 Alexander Khrokin, 18 Vladmimir Botvinnikov, 19 Adam Byrnes, 20 Victor Gresev, 21 Alexander Yanyushkin, 22 Andrey Kuzin
