“Tomorrow (Saturday), he will not be in the group for sure, but there are five days between the first and second match” against Nigeria, said the technician, adding that winger Simon Adingra was also package against Guinea-Bissau. Haller, who plays for a club in Dortmund, “will do a lot of work, we will see how his ankle reacts, in the same way as Simon Adingra, who had a muscular problem. They resumed training with the group.

“Everything is fine,” Gasset reassured, “we are on schedule, we had the control MRIs yesterday (Thursday), Professor (Abdoulaye) Bana (the team doctor) came back delighted.” Haller and Adingra “put on the shoes and started running with the group, they played a tennis ball. Everything is going as planned,” according to him.