{"id":478081,"date":"2024-02-11T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478081"},"modified":"2024-02-11T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:07:04","slug":"ivory-coast-with-2-1-comeback-win-vs-nigeria-to-win-afcon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ivory-coast-with-2-1-comeback-win-vs-nigeria-to-win-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast with 2-1 comeback win vs. Nigeria to win AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast won against Nigeria 2-1 at Stade Olympique Alassane Ouattara in front of more than 60,000 spectators and won their 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Africa Cup of Nations title.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria had the lead after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half as William Troost-Ekong scored in the 38<sup>th<\/sup> minute to give his nation the lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FROM THE BRINK OF ELIMINATION TO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCON2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AFCON2023<\/a> WINNERS \u2014 IVORY COAST ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF AFRICA \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k0bELD8rfd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k0bELD8rfd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports Golazo \u26bd\ufe0f (@CBSSportsGolazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsGolazo\/status\/1756800797336027325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Ivory Coast showed that they were not ready to give up, and Franck Kessie\u2019s header went into the net after Simon Adingra\u2019s assist from the corner to tie the match 1-1 in the 62<sup>nd<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>After that moment, the Elephants were the better team on the pitch, and that led to a comeback when Sebastien Haller netted after Simon Adingra\u2019s 2nd assist in the match in the 81st minute and gave the host nation of the tournament for the 1st time in the final minutes of the clash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast<\/p>\n<p>From the brink of group-stage elimination to AFCON glory, Ivory Coast have done it!<\/p>\n<p>They become the first hosts to win the competition since Egypt in 2006. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCONFinal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AFCONFinal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RqKl2tsocf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RqKl2tsocf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAnalyst\/status\/1756801452750643525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The referee gave 7 minutes extra time but Nigeria failed to score and even the result as Ivory Coast fairytale ended with the trophy in the 34<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddee IVORY COAST ARE CHAMPIONS OF AFRICA AFTER BEATING NIGERIA! \ud83c\udf0d<\/p>\n<p>Crazy story. From finishing 3rd in group, to winning the whole competition on home soil. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCON2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AFCON2023<\/a> been incredible to watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MN7Ud9lkTq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MN7Ud9lkTq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurofootcom\/status\/1756800464694239654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast won against Nigeria 2-1 at Stade Olympique Alassane Ouattara in front of more than 60,000 spectators and won their 3rd Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478085,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22652,20813],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[22654,22655,20814],"acf":{"announce":"The host nation triumphed with the trophy after a very dramatic path in the tournament.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478088,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478081\/revisions\/478088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478081"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478081"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}