Two [Albion](https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/albion/?ref=au) players booked themselves unwanted bans as they saw yellow at Anfield.
Lewis Dunk and Diego Gomez join the list of absentees on both sides when Albion face Sunderland next Saturday.
In total, NINE players will miss the gme due to AFCON action or suspensions.
But the Black Cats avoided further bans in their win over Newcastle on Sunday, despite five yellow cards in a heated North East derby.
Inspirational skipper Granit Xhaka came through unscathed and remains on four yellows.
Dunk and Baleba both picked up their fifth bookings in Albion’s 2-0 defeat at Liverpool, which means a one-match ban.
Carlos Baleba avoided such a fate in his last game before heading to AFCON.
Full-backs Mats Wieffer and Ferdi Kadioglu are both one yellow from suspension.
Dunk was not helped by a theatrical fall from former team-mate Alexis Mac Allister as he was shown yellow at Anfield.
Referee Craig Pawson played advantage but produced the inevitable card when the move had ended.
VAR checked Gomez’s high boot which caught Florian Wirtz late in the first half as both tried to bring the ball down.
Keyboard warriors and conspiracy believers on social media claimed an injustice but it looked like a commonsense judgement of a football incident by video assistant Darren England.
Still, his yellow card added to the open goal miss and his lightweight challenge on the opening Albion goal to complete a tough afternoon.
Sunderland lost Luke O’Nien to suspension when he was shown a straight red card at Manchester City last weekend.
They also have five players heading to AFCON, namely Chemsdine Talbi (Morocco), Reinildo (Mozambique), Bertrand Traore (Burkina Faso), Arthur Masuaku (DR Congo) and Noah Sadiki (DR Congo).
Of those, all but Masuaka started the derby win over Newcastle.
Former Albion winger Simon Adingra was a surprise omission from the Ivory Coast squad.