Good afternoon and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE Africa Cup of Nations matchcast as reigning champions Zambia look to survive the group stage in their final Group C fixture against Burkina Faso. Team news will follow very shortly!

Balma almost gets past Mbola with a clever heel flick, but the defender had him stood up well to block.

Traore was clutching his left thigh as he departed on the stretcher and appeared to possibly be blaming the sand-soaked pitch for the innocuous strain.

Another good Burkina spell of possession but sub Bance cannot get onto the final ball. Zambia have hardly seen the football thus far.

Now we get the switch as Traore is stretchered off and Bance comes on.

Play resumes and the change will have to wait. Zambia down to 10 for now.

Aristide Bance is one of the players warming up as treatment continues for Traore.

In fact, Traore now drops to the ground and looks like he's signalling to the bench that he needs to be withdrawn.

In fact, Traore isn't doing too much better and is visibly limping.

Alain Traore accidentally treads on the foot of Nkausa as the two contest a loose ball. He's in pain from that but will continue.

The pitch is in a bad way and has led to plenty of misplaced passes already.

Early free-kick for Burkina almost leads to Mweene flapping the ball into danger, but Pitropia is unable to connect.

Both of these games have kicked off at the same time, and we'll keep you informed of the twists, turns and permutations which follow.

And we're underway! Two more quarter-finalists will be decided in the next two hours.

The teams are out and it's anthems time. Kick-off in a few minutes.

Of course, the highlight of the group thus far was Zambia goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene's penalty heroics in the 1-1 draw with Nigeria. Rather than keeping one out, however, it was he who equalised five from time with as good a spot kick as you'll ever see:

The Copper Bullets are unbeaten in their last 10 AFCON games with five wins and five draws. However, a draw will not suffice today as a point apiece keeps Faso above them and leaves them prone to be overtaken by Nigeria or Ethiopia.

Looking to dislodge the group leaders and title holders from the top two spots in Group C are Ethiopia and Nigeria, who play each other at the same time as per the usual final pool fixture deal. Follow updates of THAT in another tab with @Reda_Eurosport here:

ZAMBIA: 16-Kennedy Mweene; 6-Davies Nkausu, 13-Stopilla Sunzu, 5-Hichani Himoonde, 18-Emmanuel Mbola; 3-Chisamba Lungu, 8-Isaac Chansa, 19-Nathan Sinkala, 17-Rainford Kalaba; 9-Collins Mbesuma, 20-Emmanuel Mayuka. /// BURKINA FASO: 1-Daouda Diakite; 5-Mohamed Koffi, 4-Bakary Kone, 8-Paul Koulibaly, 12-Mady Panandetiguiri; 6-Djakaridja Kone, 18-Charles Kabore, 7-Florent Rouamba, 11-Jonathan Pitroipa; 12-Alain Traore, 14-Wilfried Balima