Saied recovered from injury while Hamza served a one-match ban. The duo is very influential and would be a major boost for the Whites in their task against the Ivorian giants.

Meanwhile Ghanaian striker Junior Agogo is still out with an injury.

Here is the 20-man squad

Mohamed Abdul-Monsef, Mohamed Abdul-Wahed - Hani Saied, Ahmed Magdi, Amr Al-Safti, Mahmoud Fathallah, Wissem El Abdi, Karim Zekri, Ahmed Ghanem, Mohamed Abdullah, Osama Hassan - Mohamed Aboul-Ela, Ahmed Raouf, Mohamed Ibrahim, Alaa Abdel-Ghani, Ayman Abdul-Aziz, - Gamal Hamza, Mostafa Gaafar, Abdul-Halim Ali, Sherif Ashraf.