{"id":437256,"date":"2011-06-07T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/africa-cote-d-ivoire-picks-nations-cup-ticket\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:45:58","slug":"africa-cote-d-ivoire-picks-nations-cup-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/africa-cote-d-ivoire-picks-nations-cup-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Cote d&#8217; Ivoire Picks Nations Cup Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"35.7909407666\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentngonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Independent<\/a> (Lagos)<\/p>\n<p>6 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Cote d&#8217; Ivoire on Sunday secured a place at the finals with two games to spare. Cote d&#8217; Ivoire triumphed 6-2 in Benin with Didier Drogba and Gervais &#8216;Gervinho&#8217; Kouassi bagging a brace each to take an unassailable eight-point lead in their section.<\/p>\n<p>Cote d&#8217; Ivoire could hardly have dreamt it would score six in Cotonou having won only 2-1 when the countries met in Accra three months ago, but a great start saw them gallop into a three-goal led with 31 minutes gone.<\/p>\n<p>Stephane Sessegnon struck twice to leave the game to offer Benin hope only for Drogba and Gervinho to score a second goal each before Wilfried Bony completed the rout four minutes from full-time.<\/p>\n<p>Issam Jemaa scored a hat-trick as Tunisia thumped 10-man Chad 5-0 in Group K and the other goals in Sousse came from Aymen Abdennour and Oussama Darragi against opponents who had Didier Mbayi sent off just before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia shade Malawi on goal difference in the battle for second place behind pool winners Botswana in the only mini-league where two teams qualify automatically because there are five competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea trounced Madagascar 4-1 in Conakry to go three points clear of Nigeria in Group B while Angola kept alive its slender Group J hopes with a 1-0 victory over Kenya in Luanda thanks to a &#8216;Manucho&#8217; goal.<\/p>\n<p>Liberia edged Group A leaders Cape Verde Islands 1-0 for its first win of the competition and the Central African Republic joined Morocco at the summit of Group D with a 2-1 win against Tanzania in Bangui.<\/p>\n<p>Comoros Islands, the youngest member of the African football family, ended a long run of competitive losses by holding Libya 1-1 in Mitsamiouli which left the North Africans a point behind Group C table toppers Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 group winners qualify for the finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea next January and February plus the Group K runners-up and the best two second place finishers from the other 10 mini-leagues.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106070356.html\" title=\"Africa: Cote d' Ivoire Picks Nations Cup Ticket\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa: Cote d&#8217; Ivoire Picks Nations Cup Ticket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Daily Independent (Lagos) 6 June 2011 Cote d&#8217; Ivoire on Sunday secured a place at the finals with two games to spare. Cote d&#8217; Ivoire triumphed 6-2 in Benin with Didier Drogba and Gervais &#8216;Gervinho&#8217; Kouassi bagging a brace each to take an unassailable eight-point lead in their section. Cote d&#8217; Ivoire could hardly have dreamt it would score six in Cotonou having won only 2-1 when the countries met in Accra three months ago, but a great start saw them gallop into a three-goal led with 31 minutes gone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Africa: Cote d&#039; Ivoire Picks Nations Cup Ticket - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/africa-cote-d-ivoire-picks-nations-cup-ticket\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Africa: Cote d&#039; Ivoire Picks Nations Cup Ticket - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Daily Independent (Lagos) 6 June 2011 Cote d&#039; Ivoire on Sunday secured a place at the finals with two games to spare. 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