Among the match-ups over the next four weeks in North Africa are a Bayer 04 clash between Tapsoba’s Burkina Faso and Maza’s Algeria in Group E on Sunday, 28 December.
AFCON fixtures for Bayer 04 players (times in CET):
Eliesse Ben Seghir (Morocco - Group A):
Edmond Tapsoba (Burkina Faso - Group E):
Ibrahim Maza (Algeria - Group E):
Christian Kofane (Cameroon - Group F):
The top two from the six groups of four, together with the four best-placed third-placed teams, will advance to the round of 16, to be played from 3 to 6 January.
Should any players progress to the quarter-finals (9-10 January), they will miss the Werkself’s return to competitive action at home to VfB Stuttgart on 10 January (18:30). The semi-finals will be played on 14 January, the third-place play-off on 17 January and the final on 18 January. Leverkusen players who go beyond the quarters will also miss the Bundesliga encounters at Hamburg (13 January) and Hoffenheim (17 January).
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