Samuel Eto'o Fils and Raymond Kalla have both been ruled out, although for vastly different reasons.

Kalla has failed to recover from an injury he picked up playing for Estramadura.

But Eto'o misses out because he is attending the African Player of the Year ceremony in Johannesburg.

However, striker Patrick Mboma and Lauren Etame, who were out in last month's game against Argentina because of injury, are back.

Kalla's absence will offer head coach Winfried Schafer a chance to try other players in the centre of the defence which appears the Achilles' heel of the Indomitable Lions.