Senegal coach Aliou Cisse needs the September Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers postponed to permit the five nations addressing the mainland at the World Cup to play cordial matches.
Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia have equipped for the 21 November - 18 December Qatar competition and the African sides have just a 19-27 September window and multi week before the World Cup start off to get ready.
The withdrawal of Zimbabwe from Group K means Morocco are allowed to play warm-up games in September, however the other four groups face two African qualifiers each.
Cameroon are planned to play Namibia, Ghana to meet Angola, Senegal to handle Mozambique and Tunisia to confront Libya home and away.
Addressing the media in Dakar after Senegal grabbed a last-heave 1-0 triumph over Rwanda on Tuesday, Cisse approached the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to defer the following two rounds of qualifying.
"The best thing (to) help the five (African) determinations that have equipped (for the World Cup) is to stop the (qualifiers) in September," said the previous Paris Saint-Germain midfielder-cum-protector.
"(This would) offer the chance to the nations qualified (for the World Cup) to do their arrangements. I figure we can track down an answer for postpone the (qualifiers) planned for September."
The test for CAF will be to track down new dates in the event that they postpone the 44 September apparatuses as there is just a single other window, next March, before the June-July 2023 finals in the Ivory Coast.
CAF plan to organize matchdays five and six of Cup of Nations qualifying between 20-28 March, with the finals set for June and July 2023.
What the Cairo-based body might consider is dropping just the eight September matches including the World Cup qualifiers and requesting that they play get up to speed during the World Cup window once wiped out.
African savants are very negative about the possibilities of the five, giving just Senegal, who face the Netherlands, Qatar and Ecuador in Group A, a realistic possibility arriving at the subsequent round.
ALGERIA TAKE CONTROL
Tunisia are in Group D with reigning champs France, Denmark and Australia or Peru and Morocco in Group F adjacent to Belgium, Canada and Croatia.
Cameroon face Brazil, Serbia and Switzerland in Group G and Ghana meet Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea in Group H.
In the mean time, there were six Cup of Nations qualifiers on Wednesday and fallen African goliaths Algeria assumed command over Group F after a noteworthy 2-0 triumph in Tanzania.
A sharp free-kick drill late in the principal half finished in focus back Ramy Bensebaini gesturing the Desert Foxes ahead.
Tanzania seldom took steps to level before substitute Mohamed Amoura fixed a positive outcome with a booming short proximity shot a moment from time.
Algeria flaunted a 35-match unbeaten record before the wheels fell off this year in a Cup of Nations title defense and World Cup play-off.
In the wake of drawing with Sierra Leone in the African competition, they tumbled to Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast to make a shocking first-round exit having ventured out to Cameroon as one of the title top picks.
Algeria then, at that point, won away to Cameroon in a World Cup play-off just to surrender late in additional time at home and lose on away goals.
The success in Tanzania, combined with second seeds Uganda draw 1-1 at home to Niger, implies the double cross African bosses have a noteworthy lead after only two rounds.
Congo Brazzaville put a four-goal Group G battering in Mali behind them by edging 2021-2022 Cup of Nations monster executioners the Gambia 1-0 in Brazzaville through an Antoine Makoumbou goal.
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