AFCON watch

Nigeria into the semi finals, playing again next Wednesday.

Sangare joins Boly watching Serge from the Ivory Coast bench.

Ivory Coast still goalless but Mali have missed a pen. Wankers.

Ivory Coast down to 10 men but still 0-0

Ivory Coast's charmed life continues with an 89th minute equaliser.

And now a 120min deflected winner. They are rather annoying as I’d like our players back.

But amusing the goal scorer got a second yellow for removing his shirt when scoring, so misses the semi.

Isn't it just Sangare and Kouyate now that Aurier isn't ours? I can't imagine anyone thinks that Kouyate has the slightest bearing on our season other than maybe a warm body to play some FA Cup minutes, so it's really only Sangare and he hasn't exactly been a game changer for us so far.

Aina too?

Boly?

Mixed up which teams he and Kouyate play for. Presumably Kouyate is back, not that anyone will likely notice.

I was only thinking about Ivory Coast, but yes, Aina is still out there. My point is, no one who's out there still is a guaranteed starter for us who's leaving a gaping hole in the team.

Kouyate has more time off because his dad died (and we don't need him) not available tomorrow, according to Nuno.

I do think that we are pining our midfield for the rest of the season on Sangare being available, especially after selling Mangala.

Yeah, Sangare was looking better after his virus setback and with Mangala gone he’s gone up a notch in importance.