Salomon Kalou believes Ghana will offer the biggest threat to Ivory Coast's hopes of defending the Africa Cup of Nations.
The tournament gets underway in Gabon on Saturday with Ivory Coast looking to retain the trophy they won in 2015 in Equatorial Guinea thanks to a penalty shoot-out victory over Ghana.
And Hertha Berlin forward Kalou is tipping their west African neighbours to challenge once more.
He told Omnisport: "Ghana will be our biggest threat. They always will be, they're our neighbours.
"We are cool with them but we have competition with them. It's fun to play against them.