Giant battles are expected in the Afcon round of 16.

Four ties between the competition’s winners headline the four-day schedule that begins on Saturday at the scandal-plagued Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Ivory Coast.Champions Senegal versus Ivory Coast, Cameroon versus Nigeria, Egypt versus Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Morocco versus South Africa are the teams competing in these matchups.The other four games don’t include a past champion, but Equatorial Guinea, the 2015 semi-finalists, will draw interest after emerging victorious from a group that included the more anticipated Nigeria and Ivory Coast.