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Sam Allardyce has confirmed that he will be without all three of his prospective AFCON players when West Ham travel to Everton for the 3rd round of the FA Cup on Tuesday evening.

Cheik Kouyate and Diafra Sakho are both set to feature for Senegal in the tournament, which begins in a fortnight's time, whilst Alex Song may yet resolve his differences with Cameroon manager Volker Finke and feature for his country.

However none will be available for the trip to Goodison Park on Tuesday evening, as confirmed by Allardyce in his post-match press conference this evening.

When asked whether Song would be going, Big Sam replied: "I don't know, is the answer to that. Alex is having his own conversation with the manager of Cameroon and they'll decide between them.

"It's not our decision - we've got no rights over Alex in terms of whether he goes or doesn't go."

There is also some doubt as to whether Sakho will now be going, after he was substituted with what appeared to be a re-occurrence of the back injury which kept him out of action earlier in the season.

When asked to clarify the situation, Allardyce answered: "We don't know until we assess the back injury he came off with today. That will have to be scanned tomorrow and we'll see what the extent of the damage is."

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