Ivory Coast :: Equatorial Guinea 4-0 Ivory Coast: Catastrophic Result For Elephants! :: Ivory Coast
The elephants clearly have their faces turned towards the exit door from the CAN that they organized this year. According to Jean-Louis Gasset, Ivory Coast clearly lacks efficiency. “In 180 minutes, we didn’t score a goal and yet we made substitutions to have more attackers.” declares the Ivory Coast Coach.
He adds: “There are sometimes nightmare matches, matches where everything seems to be against you. We conceded a goal in the first half on the only opponent opportunity. We score goals that are disallowed, we have witnessed a perfect disaster. We have three points, we won a match, the four best third places are qualified, we hope.”
Classification in group A
1- Equatorial Guinea 7 points +6
2- Nigeria 7 points +2
3- Ivory Coast 3 points -3
4- Guinea-Bissau 0 points -5
The organizing country deprived of the 8th finals?
Equatorial Guinea caused one of the surprises of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Côte d’Ivoire 2023 by crushing tournament hosts Côte d’Ivoire 4-0 in a match in Group A played Monday at the Alassane Ouattara Olympic stadium in Ebimpe.
A double from Emilio Nsue in both halves, which increased their lead in the scorers’ standings to 5, as well as a goal from Pablo Ganet and Jannick Bulya allowed Equatorial Guinea to stun world football by crushing the tournament hosts.
As expected, the Elephants, with the support of the crowd, got off to a better start, but a lack of precision in front of goal caused them to miss a number of clear scoring chances which they later regretted. the following.
Tipster Nsue found the back of the net with a neat finish from close range in the 41st minute to give his side the lead going into the break.
Going into the second half, the Elephants took the lead but were denied by Equatorial Guinea, with two of their goals also disallowed by VAR.
The Elephants’ momentum was then broken by a miraculous strike in the 72nd minute. Pablo Ganet, on a well-taken free kick, found the top corner to double the lead.
The lead widened further immediately after the restart after Nsue completed a quick counter-attack to make it three.
The final nail in the coffin was hammered by Jannick Buyla, who finished off a rebound to give his team a resounding victory.
Post-match reactions:
Juan Micha – Coach of Equatorial Guinea
“We knew that the opponent had a lot of pressure, we took this into account when implementing our strategy. With our humility, we made the effort to go as far as possible. We are working to reach the big level. What we want is to do our job, believe in ourselves and try to win every time.”
“As for Ivory Coast, I am hurt because it is the organizing country but it is football. I believe the goal is to go through the different stages until the end. We must forget this match and plan the rest of the competition.
Jean-Louis Gasset – Ivory Coast coach
“There are sometimes nightmare matches, matches where everything seems to be against you. We conceded a goal in the first half on the only opponent opportunity. We score goals that are disallowed, we have witnessed a perfect disaster. We have three points, we won a match, the four best third places are qualified, we hope.”
“We have an efficiency problem. In 180 minutes, we didn’t score a goal and yet we made substitutions to have more attackers. Today the result was catastrophic, I know that I am the main responsible.”
