Zimbabwe will face Senegal in Africa Cup of Nations Group B match day two at Stade de Franceville this evening.

Giants Senegal will be in a fight to book their place in the quaterfinals aganist a team that gave a pace performance in their first game aganist Algeria.

For the Lions of Terenga they scored two goals past Tunisia but basing on the statistics they were not the better side.Their goals came in the second half becoming their first win over Tunisia after a long 40 years of wait to comfortably sit top of the Group with 3 points.

Zimbabwe almost produced a shocker aganist a star stunned Algeria side that had Riyad Mahrez. The Warriors as the are populary known demonstrated quick response skill coming from a goal down.In a span of twelve minutes Zimbabwe added the second but conceded in the last ten minutes of the match.

The two teams will be meeting for the 8th time, with Zimbabwe having won more matches than their West African opponents. While no draws have been recorded between the 2 teams, Zimbabwe has won 4 while Senegal have won 3 matches.

The last time the two teams met was again at the Africa Cup of Nations 2006 finals where Senegal recorded a 2-0 victory subsequently dashing Warriors qualification hopes.

Zimbabwe expect their pacy forwad Knowledge Musona to recover from harmstring injury that made him limp off the field in the 12th minute.

Senegal coach Aliou Cisse is not expected to make any changes in the side that won aganist Tunisia and will be looking to continue with that momentum as one of the tournament favourite.

Probable  line ups:

Senegal : Diallo; Mbodji, Gassama, Koulibaly, Mbengue; Gueye, Ndiaye, Kouyate, Mane, Keita, Diouf

Zimbabwe : Mukuruva; Muriowa, Zvirekwi, Costa, Bhasera; Billiat, Musona; Phiri, Mahachi, Katsande,Mushekwi.