Both teams were already ruled out of qualifying for the knockout rounds, so this was essentially a dead rubber match. Both teams had yet to pick up a point in their previous 2 games of the group stages so would be trying to salvage some sort of respect from the last game.
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Panama made 4 changes from the team that lost 6-1 to England with both Armando Copper and Michael Murillo missing out through suspension with Ricardo Avila and Adolfo Machado their replacements. The other 2 changes saw Eric Davies and Blas Perez drop to the bench with Luis Ovalle and Gabriel Torres replacing them.
Tunisia also made plenty of changes with a huge 6 changes from the team that lost 5-2 to Belgium. Farouk Ben Mustapha, Syam Ben Youssef, Dyland Bronn all missed out through injury, with Aymen Mathlouthi, Rami Bedoui, Hamdi Naguez their replacements. Ali Maaloul, Saif Khaoui and Anice Badri were dropped to the bench with Oussama Haddadi, Ferjani Sassi and Naim Sliti coming in for them.
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