 Senegalese team is without 11 players on its 28-man roaster for its Africa Cup of Nations opener against Tim Babboy after testing positive for COVID-19. The team will play its third goalkeeper before some on Monday. Sené Daying of Queen's Park Rangers and the third goalkeeper will take his place in the cage to compensate for the absence of Eduard Mendy. But also his first substitute Alfred Gomes René who is not on the game sheet. The Chelsea goalkeeper tested positive for COVID as did defender Khalidu Kulibali and striker Fomara Diedu. On Sunday, Senegal had mentioned these three possible withdrawals. It seems the list has grown since then. Well, joining us live is plus TV Africa sports editor Wally Scott. Thank you for joining us, Mr Scott. I like the idea you actually stumbled on Kulibali. We're all not used to these names. But before we go into the case of the COVID-19 situation in the camp, I'd like for you to quickly just run us through what the Afghan has been since yesterday. We saw a very colorful event as an opener and of course a very interesting opening statement there from the Cameroon government. But what is the situation of things now that we're seeing a lot of men fall ill? I think the Afghan has always been terrible, really, because most times African countries don't take care of their players just in case they get injured in the course of the competition. Now, they put in their best for their club. But most times when they come back to Africa for the competition, they don't put in their best for me. I was joking with you a few minutes ago before the show started and I said, they look very obese to me, really. Your jogging is better than their strength these days, really. And it's terrible. However, so far, so good. It's been good. Cameroon got two penalties in their match against Buckingham Fassel. Okay, far enough. It's all good. Isopia got a win against Kiv Verde. Things are only getting better at the competition. Yes, it has gotten better. The standard has gotten better, yes. But I think the best match of the tournament that everybody is waiting for, the whole world is waiting for, is Nigeria against the heroes of Egypt. Who takes this tomorrow at 4 p.m. Yes. And Moussala, Moussala is not one player, he's three players in one. Oh, well, I saw a lot of people go at each other on social media. People were saying that Didi was going to be, you know, bringing the neck breaker for Moussala and he needs to watch his back. But what's that thing that's going on between Nigeria and Egypt? No, it's always been a major competition. Egypt has a better structure. Now, consistency is key at this point. The Egyptian team has seven players who play one thing in their country. That's our elite. Now, we only have three or four very few players who actually come from abroad. And one of them is Moussala, who is undoubtedly one of the best players in the world as we speak. Now, what he says, we are fantastic Nigerian players. And we're not scared of Moussala because we've got Kelechi, who plays in England, Wilfrid Indidi, who plays in England, or Laia, you know, he plays in England, Truth Econ, he plays in England, who they play in week-in, week-out. We're not scared of Moussala. And on my show this morning on blogspot, we spoke to the media spokesperson of the Super Eagle, Ken Miraji, who said, listen, we're not playing against Moussala. We're playing against the Pharaohs of Egypt. So it's going to be a good game. Did you bring it on? I'm very optimistic we can win this game. Finally, I've also seen people make bold statements like, Nigeria will win the African, but for those who, for the Spots pundits and those who are real critics of, you know, the Super Eagles, they say that this team is good, but might not be as good enough to win, to lift that cup. Where do you stand on this? This team is fantastic, really. It's very fantastic. They've got individual players, Joe Aribo, Joko Eze, Ola Ina, Kelechi Inacho. The only question that's not there is Victor Simen. I think they're fantastic teams. And like Ken Miraji told us this morning on blogspot, he says, let's take one game at a time. I think we can make it happen. I think we can. Okay, and aside from the Pharaohs of Egypt, what are the teams do you think will be making great debuts or rather, you know, changing the tide for their country or the status when it comes to Afghan, you know, in this game? Except for COVID-19, Senegal would be a thing to be. Saudi, they've got Khalid-e-Kulibali, they've got Edward Mandi in group and Mandi in group. That would be my thing. Senegal and then Ghana would be a thing to be. More like Ken Miraji said this morning, let's take it one game at a time. Nigeria could just win this one. One game at a time. Well, Wali Scott is our spots editor here in Plus TV Africa. Thank you very much, Wali, for speaking with us. 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