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The new list of the "Carthage Eagles"

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Tunisia's head coach Sami Trabelsi held a press conference to unveil his squad for the September qualifiers.

The list features a debut for Ismael Gharbi, who has just switched his sporting nationality. There’s also the return of Naim Sliti, who missed the June camp.

The Carthage Eagles will face Liberia on September 4 at the Hamadi Agrebi Stadium in Rades at 19:00 GMT, before flying to Malabo to take on Equatorial Guinea on September 8 at 13:00 GMT as part of matchdays 7 and 8 in Group H.

Here is the Carthage Eagles squad:

Goalkeepers: Aymen Dahmene (CS Sfaxien), Béchir Ben Said (Espérance de Tunis), Noureddine Farhati (Stade Tunisien).

Defenders: Montassar Talbi (Lorient), Alaa Ghram (Shakhtar Donetsk), Dylan Bronn (FC Servette), Yassine Meriah (Espérance de Tunis), Yan Valery (Sheffield Wednesday), Moutaz Neffati (IFK Norrköping), Ali Abdi (Nice), Mortadha Ben Ounnes (Kasımpaşa), Mohamed Ali Ben Hamida (Espérance de Tunis).

Midfielders: Ferjani Sassi (Al Gharafa), Aissa Laidouni (Al Wakrah), Hannibal Mejbri (Burnley FC), Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane (Al Ahly), Mohamed Hadj Mahmoud (FC Lugano), Firas Belarbi (Sharjah FC), Ismael Gharbi (Sporting Braga).

Forwards: Elias Achouri (FC Copenhagen), Omar Layouni (BK Häcken), Naim Sliti (Al Shamal), Hazem Mastouri (Dinamo Makhachkala), Firas Chaouat (Club Africain), Elias Saad (Augsburg), Sébastien Tounekti (Hammarby).