{"id":760136,"date":"2022-01-21T09:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/ivory-coast-beat-algeria-as-champions-exit-tournament\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T09:55:53","slug":"ivory-coast-beat-algeria-as-champions-exit-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/ivory-coast-beat-algeria-as-champions-exit-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast beat Algeria as champions exit tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FJkLGSRX0AACvI_-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"FJkLGSRX0AACvI_\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Defending champions Algeria crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 3-1 defeat against Ivory Coast in Douala.<\/p>\n<p>Needing a win to stay alive, Algeria trailed by two goals at the break after Franke Kessie capped off a fine move and Ibrahim Sangare headed home.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s Nicolas Pepe put the Ivorians 3-0 up before Algeria captain Riyad Mahrez hit a penalty against the post.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria, for whom Sofiane Bendebka scored a late consolation, were bottom of Group E after a torrid display.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Djamel Belmadi\u2019s men are the third holders to exit at the first hurdle in the past five Nations Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"UNXTM1Cop9U\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obra on Adom TV (20-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UNXTM1Cop9U?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Algeria crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 3-1 defeat against Ivory Coast in Douala. Needing a win to stay alive, Algeria trailed by two goals at the break after Franke Kessie capped off a fine move and Ibrahim Sangare headed home. Arsenal\u2019s Nicolas Pepe put the Ivorians 3-0 up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[247,193,774,1314,1972,1316,108],"class_list":["post-760136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-algeria","tag-beat","tag-champions","tag-coast","tag-exit","tag-ivory","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}