Match info:
Time & date: 26 Jan 2012 – 21:00 (Cairo/Egypt Time) | 1900 GMT
Venue: Estadio de Malabo
Group: Group B
Match Update: www.NileSports.tv
Ivory Coast face another unheralded side in the shape of Burkina Faso, but Toure does not believe this means they will have an comfortable path into the next round.
“It won’t be easy,” he said. “Anything can happen.
“Everyone can say, ‘Okay, yeah, Ivory Coast against Sudan was easy for Ivory Coast.’
“But in the end, when you see how the game went, you will realise how African football has progressed, how every team has come to fight, to want to go through.
“Because you come to a competition to believe you can go through.”
Tournament favourites Ivory Coast know first hand how tough a challenge they face in the shape of Burkina Faso, having been held to a goalless draw by the same opposition in Angola.
Burkina Faso lost their opening fixture 2-1 to Angola on Sunday.
After poor defending contributed to both Angola’s goals, coach Portuguese Paulo Duarte has called for an improvement.
“There are two or three points on positioning that need work,” he said. “We gave the two goals to the strikers.”
Midfielder Abdou Razak Traore missed that game because of what Duarte described as “passport issues” and it remains unclear whether those have been resolved.
Match info:
Time & date: 26 Jan 2012 – 21:00 (Cairo/Egypt Time) | 1900 GMT
Venue: Estadio de Malabo
Group: Group B
Match Update: www.NileSports.tv
