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2024 AFRICA CUP - Final - DAY 21 - Nigeria vs Côte d'Ivoire 1:2

AFRICA CUP 2024
Final

DAY 21
Match 52

Nigeria vs Côte d'Ivoire 1:2

 

 

FACTS
Ivory Coast is the new Africa Cup of Nations winner after coming from behind to defeat Nigeria in the final at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium.

 

GOAL 
Nigeria

William Troost-Ekong 38'

GOALS
Côte d'Ivoire

Franck Kessié 62'
Sébastien Haller 81'

 

DETAILS

The hosts started as the better, more aggressive team, creating chances on goal and playing with a confidence that they’ve lacked throughout the rest of the tournament. The fans inside the stadium gave the match a lively and excitable atmosphere but Nigeria threatened to provide an upset.

In a rare attack up the pitch they won a corner that came curling onto the head of William Troost-Ekong who nodded it into the back of the net for the opener to give them the lead at half-time.

Ivory Coast didn’t give in. They came out for the second half with gusto and equalised through a set piece of their own. Franck Kessie drifting into space and powering a header into the deck before it bounced into the net. A sign of fate perhaps came at the end of the game. Sebastien Haller, who missed the start of the tournament through injury, stuck his foot onto a cross and turned it past Stanley Nwabali to decide the match.

 

 

11 Feb 2024
afrofootball

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