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It is fair to say momentum is building with the African nations and tomorrow all eyes will be on Senegal as they look to seal their path out of the group stage.

Standing in their way is an undefeated Ecuador side, in the last hour or so at his pre-match press conference coach Aliou Cisse has urged his players "not to overthink" the showdown.

"We understand that winning will allow us to continue the adventure and that's what we want to do," Cisse said, praising Tuesday's opponents Ecuador as "a beautiful team".

Cisse says he has no injury concerns ahead of the game and revealed star forward Sadio Mane - ruled out of the tournament with a leg injury - has been willing his teammates on from afar.

"Sadio is still with us, even if we don't speak (daily). I know he sends messages to the boys at the end of each game -- he is with us."

After an uninspiring first week for African nations at the World Cup, it has been a sensational couple of days for the continent.

After Morocco stunned Belgium yesterday and Cameroon roared back to draw with Serbia today, Ghana are currently two goals to the good against Korea Republic.

Mohammed Salisu and Mohammed Kudus got the goals, and you can watch live and follow the play-by-play text here.

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We're here again for a big afternoon of World Cup news and action.

Wales and England will be holding their pre-game press-conferences this afternoon, at 14.30 GMT and 16.00 GMT respectively.

We also will have updates from the games taking place in Qatar - including a cracker going on right now...

Now you've got your breath back from the thrilling 3-3 draw between Cameroon and Serbia, it's time to go again with an intriguing looking match between South Korea and Ghana.

Kick-off is imminent and the live coverage on BBC One is underway.

You can watch and follow our live text here.

Meanwhile, this blog is going to take a short break - but will return this afternoon ahead of the Wales and England press conferences.

See you shortly.

Qatar coach Felix Sanchez insists he would not change a thing if he were to go back in time to before the start of the World Cup.

The hosts were the first team to be eliminated from the finals after losing to Ecuador and Senegal, and are bottom of Group A with no points.

They face being the first hosts to lose all their games when they face Netherlands tomorrow, however Sanchez told his press conference: "If I go back in time? It's easy to talk about things after it's over.

"I think we have prepared in the best possible way, but everything has to be considered in perspective, we have been working with this group for a long time. Sometimes things don't go the way you want them to."

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We haven't seen any of Kalvin Phillips so far at this World Cup, after the Manchester City midfielder managed to prove his fitness in time to make the plane to Qatar.

Phillips is a favourite of Southgate and was key for England in their run to the Euro 2020 final - will he get his chance against Wales?

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There have been some doubts about the fitness of England captain Harry Kane, who is yet to score at this World Cup.

Kane suffered an ankle knock in the opening game against Iran, and there has been some talk he could be rested against Wales.

However, the Tottenham striker is leading his team in training today.

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Football is still not doing enough to protect players from the long term effects of head injuries, says Chris Sutton.

Professional footballers in Scotland are to be banned from heading the ball in training the day before and the day after a game, and clubs are also being told to limit exercises that involve repetitive heading to one session per week.

However Sutton, who lost his father after a 10-year battle with dementia, wants changes to be wider-ranging.

Speaking to Radio 5 Live he says the decision taken by the Scottish FA is “another positive step in the right direction but I still don’t feel we are doing enough.

“There’s been a lot of incidents in the World Cup so far including the Iranian goal keeper and that whole sham and eventually him coming off the pitch.

“I’ve been pushing for a long time about the need for temporary concussion substitutions and eventually they will come in but it’s how long, why haven’t we got them in right now; the sooner they come in the better but I still don’t think that the footballing authorities are doing anywhere near enough.

“Simply managers don’t want to risk taking their best players off because of the pressure that is on them to win games.

“What’s going to happen if we don’t change things quickly enough is this current generation of players, in 15-20 years their families will be saying ‘why didn’t we do something about this, why didn’t we implement change quicker’ because people die for neurodegenerative disease.”

A bit of news from the England camp as Ben White missed training through illness on the eve of the World Cup clash with Wales.

Gareth Southgate's side will progress to the knockout phase if they avoid a four-goal defeat against their neighbours in the Group B finale.

White has yet to play a minute in Qatar and looks set to miss the Wales game having sat out training on Monday at the Al Wakrah Sports Complex.

The remaining 25 members of the squad trained in 30-degree heat, including James Maddison.

Later we will hear from England manager Southgate at the preview press conference. He will be joined by vice-captain Jordan Henderson.

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BBC Two

Back on FA Cup news, today is one of the most exciting in the English domestic football calendar - the day of the FA Cup third round draw.

It will take place at 19.00 GMT, and you will be able to watch it live on BBC Two.

Ecuador coach Gustavo Alfaro has warned his team not to rest on their laurels ahead of their decisive World Cup Group A match against Senegal.

The South Americans need only a draw to progress to the round of 16 for the second time in their history and the first time since 2006.

However Alfaro said: "Everything that we've done in the past will be useless tomorrow, it's a totally different game. We just want to win in order to qualify.

"I'm convinced we've done everything we can, we've done our homework, hopefully tomorrow we will be strong and fortunate enough against Senegal, who are a great team, and hopefully we will go through, because we deserve it."

Ecuador could still go through if they lose, but that would require a win by Qatar over the Netherlands, which looks improbable based on the hosts' form.

Enner Valencia is the World Cup's joint top scorer with three goals in his first two games - however there were some fears the former Everton and West Ham striker would miss their crucial Group A clash with Senegal due to a knee injury.

However Valencia, who has scored all of Ecuador's goals in Qatar so far, says he will be ok for tomorrow.

"My knee's ok. I hope to make it ok to keep helping the team," the Ecuador captain told reporters at the team press conference this morning.

Ecuador, ranked 44th in the world and bottom seeds in Group A, beat World Cup hosts Qatar 2-0 before outplaying the Netherlands in a 1-1 draw to go joint top before Tuesday's final games of the round.

Should they avoid defeat, they will match their all-time best World Cup showing when they reached the last 16 in 2006.

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It wasn't all about the World Cup at the weekend - the FA Cup second round took place and threw up a couple of big upsets.

Non-league sides Boreham Wood and Chesterfield both enjoyed strong FA Cup runs last season - the former reached round five and a trip to Everton after knocking out Bournemouth, the latter playing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge after getting to round three.

Both could get a Premier League glamour tie again this season after knocking out league sides - Boreham Wood won at League One Bristol Rovers, while Chesterfield eliminated League Two AFC Wimbledon at Plough Lane.

You can see highlights of Bristol Rovers 0-2 Boreham Wood here, and AFC Wimbledon 0-2 Chesterfield here.

A six-goal thriller sees Cameroon and Serbia each pick up a point which, in reality, benefits neither.

Both sides only have one point from two games, having lost their opening games to Switzerland and Brazil respectively.

Still, it was incredibly entertaining.

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Gareth Southgate's men are about to commence their final full training session before facing Wales in their Group B decider tomorrow.

All players are available for training apart from Ben White, who is ill.

Think you know your World Cup players? Well now you can prove it by taking our daily picture quiz here.

Rangers hope to finalise an agreement to bring Queens Park Rangers manager Michael Beale back to Ibrox as Giovanni van Bronckhorst's successor.

The 42-year-old spent three years in Glasgow under Steven Gerrard and could be announced as the club's new boss within the next 24 hours.

Beale took over at QPR in the summer with his side currently seventh in the Championship.

Van Bronckhorst, who was in the job for just 12 months, was sacked last week.

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So much still to come today in the World Cup, including...

Did anyone have Cameroon v Serbia down as game of the tournament?

Going to be hard to top this.