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First game finished 1-0 to DRC keeping up Benin’s record of not having won a game at AFCON.

Scott Burns reporting Nilsen potentially away this window.

4 games tomorrow. DR Congo v Benin at 12:30 Senegal v Botswana 15:00 Nigeria v Tanzania 17:30 Tunisia v Uganda 20:00 Plenty of Scottish interest in games with Tounetki and Balikwisha from Celtic, Ikpeazu from St Johnstone and Obita and Bushiri from Hibs.

Egypt scrape passed Zimbabwe 2-1 with a Mo Salah 91st minute winner.

Second game was won 2-1 by South Africa. First time Angola have not won their opening game. Zimbabwe currently 1-0 up on Egypt in late game.

Finished 1-1 with Zambia equalising in injury time with a diving header.

2nd penalty of the tournament awarded to Mali but like last night Zambia keeper saves it.

Mali v Zambia game is being played in almost empty stadium.

3 points off top so definitely in the title race. League race down there looks like it will decent this season.

Bit in bold is where I am at the moment. I want it to work with Thelin but less and less confident it will. The recruitment over the summer definitely has not helped with players brought in not being good enough or ready for first team football but Thelin has not helped himself with stubbornly sticking to a formation, initially, then sticking with trying to play out from the back with a goal keeper who is clearly struggling with it. I am not sure giving Thelin another window will suddenly make us progress but at the same time do not want to back to square one by sacking him.

Tomorrows games are: Mali v Zambia at 2pm South Africa v Angola at 5pm Egypt v Zimbabwe at 8pm Scottish interest in 2pm with Chaiwa from Hibs playing for Zambia and 8pm with Maswanhise from Motherwell playing for Zimbabwe.

VAR reviews in tonight’s. Real Betis v Getafe game taking almost as long as game itself. Last one resulted in a penalty for a foul that nobody saw on any of replays and none of players claimed for. VAR then missed the Betis keeper being off his line before the penalty was taken and him saving it.

First half had me thinking they were not as good as ranking suggested but second half they looked much better and as you say 2nd was a really good goal.

Morocco 1-0 now.

Morocco given the sort of penalty the bigots get in Scotland but keeper makes great save to to keep it at 0-0.

Morgan Rogers with two great strikes to put Villa 2-1 up on Manchester United.

Just said to wife can you imagine if we had given that number of chances to a Celtic team with Larsen in it.

Almost fell off chair laughing at that.

Did we not watch the way United got at them on Wednesday? Been far to negative and passive.

Opening game of this is tonight at 7pm with Morocco playing Comoros in Rabat.

Borussia Dortmund v Borussia Monchengladbach on BBC iplayer just now.

Think first goal will be vital on Sunday. If we get it their fans will turn on Nancy and atmosphere will be toxic. Lose first goal and we probably shit the bed and concede a few.

2-0. This is going to get ugly.

No pictures for 20 minutes from Al. Has he passed out?