Evening Standard
·22 January 2024
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·22 January 2024
What a final scoreline at a stunned and angry Alassane Ouattara Stadium.
Hosts Ivory Coast are surely now heading for an embarrassing early exit from their home Africa Cup of Nations after suffering the heaviest home defeat in their entire history - at the hands of Equatorial Guinea.
Total humiliation for them tonight. Three points could still be enough to see them scrape through to the last 16 as one the last of the four best third-placed teams that will advance, but a miserable -3 goal difference seems likely to prevent even that.
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Equatorial Guinea - fourth-place AFCON finishers in 2015 and quarter-finalists in both 2012 and 2021 - have another major scalp to their name and sail through to the knockouts as Group A winners on goal difference ahead of Nigeria, who beat Guinea-Bissau 1-0 at Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium tonight.