Saurel - won't change tack. (Getty Images)

By Simon Stone, PA Sport, Sydney

Georgia coach Claude Saurel has promised there will be no change in attitude when his team wave goodbye to the World Cup against Uruguay at Aussie Stadium on Tuesday.

The Eastern Europeans won the hearts of a 35,000 crowd at the same venue on Friday when they gave the mighty Springboks a real fright in a game where they had expected to be slaughtered.

But the pressure is on now, because Georgia carry the favourites' tag into the game against their fellow Pool C makeweights.

Even so Saurel insists: "We will do exactly the same as we have done in all the rest - put our heads down and give it a real go.

"We saw Uruguay play while we were in Perth. They are a good team, who play a very dangerous game - and we will have to respect them.

"They also have the advantage of playing in a World Cup before, so it is going to be a really hard game."

Saurel has taken a calculated gamble after watching what was regarded as his second-choice XV give the mighty Springboks such a tough workout on Friday and brought back seven of his established squad, including captain Gregoire Yachvili.

Influential flanker Gio Labadze is still out with an arm injury, while hooker David Dadunashvili retains his place after the try-scoring heroics against the Springboks.

Lock Juan Carlos Bado is a doubt for Uruguay after contracting a throat infection.

The 29-year-old Begles player has been named in the South Americans' starting line-up, but his place will go to Juan Miguel Alvarez if he fails to recover.

Coach Diego Ormaechea has made three changes from the side defeated 60-13 by Samoa in their last outing in Perth on October 15 - with fly-half Sebastian Aguirre, flanker Hernan Ponte and winger Alfonso Cardoso all included.

The fixture represents the first international meeting between the teams, and Georgia's marginally better scorelines in defeat appear to just give them the edge in what should be a close if not particularly skilful contest.

That will not bother the enthusiastic Australian supporters, who got behind Georgia in their thousands on Friday.

More than 30,000 tickets have already been sold for the fixture, and Saurel is anticipating another lively atmosphere.

"The support for our team has been a huge surprise," he said.

"It encourages the players and gives them more energy. It's great the Australians are getting behind the underdog."