Before the official training at the stadium Tivola in Innsbruck, coach Safet Susic had a short press conference, where he said: „Miralem Pjanic has problems with his previous knee injury. I'd like him to play one halftime, but we'll see how he's feeling after the training, and we'll spare him if we have to. Mujdza can play, and there's no problems with the rest of them. Regardless of this friendly match, it wouldn't be good to lose, every positive result is important to us. We will play tomorrow with best players at our disposal.“

Haris Medunjanin added: „I think this will be a tough game. If I recall correctly, Egypt has won African Cup eight times, that's excellect team, and if we play sub-par that will be bad for us.“