{"id":218778,"date":"2026-01-01T22:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-cote-divoire-stun-gabon-with-last-minute-3-2-thriller-to-top-group-f\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:29:42","slug":"africa-cote-divoire-stun-gabon-with-last-minute-3-2-thriller-to-top-group-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-cote-divoire-stun-gabon-with-last-minute-3-2-thriller-to-top-group-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Stun Gabon with Last-Minute 3\u20132 Thriller to Top Group F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 Gu\u00e9lor Kanga 11\u2019, Denis Bouanga 21\u2019\/ C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire: Jean\u2011Philippe Krasso 44\u2019, Evann Guessand 84\u2019, Bazoumana Tour\u00e9 90+1\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 C\u00f4te D\u2019Ivoire came from two goals down to beat Gabon and win group F\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 The defending champions will face Burkina Faso in the Round of 16\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Defending champions C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire came from two goals down to beat Gabon 3\u20132 in a dramatic Group F finale at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025, claiming top spot in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601010002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 Gu\u00e9lor Kanga 11\u2019, Denis Bouanga 21\u2019\/ C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire: Jean\u2011Philippe Krasso 44\u2019, Evann Guessand 84\u2019, Bazoumana Tour\u00e9 90+1\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 C\u00f4te D\u2019Ivoire came from two goals down to beat Gabon and win group F\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 The defending champions will face Burkina Faso in the Round of 16\u00a0 Defending champions C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680357:38ce21c02a8bd096e5a86e5bd2b11377:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,2951,5192,1218,45907,257,254,12552,14053,7319],"class_list":["post-218778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-gabon","tag-group","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-lastminute","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stun","tag-thriller","tag-top"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680357:38ce21c02a8bd096e5a86e5bd2b11377:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}