{"id":220027,"date":"2026-01-11T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/cote-divoire-egypt-cote-divoire-coach-expresses-frustration-over-quarter-final-defeat-to-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:51:10","slug":"cote-divoire-egypt-cote-divoire-coach-expresses-frustration-over-quarter-final-defeat-to-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/cote-divoire-egypt-cote-divoire-coach-expresses-frustration-over-quarter-final-defeat-to-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire\/Egypt: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Coach Expresses Frustration Over Quarter-Final Defeat to Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire coach \u00c9merse Fa\u00e9 expressed disappointment after his team&#8217;s 3-2 quarter-final loss to Egypt at the 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Mohamed Salah scored and assisted as Egypt absorbed C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire pressure, with efficient finishing proving decisive against the Elephants&#8217; dominance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;We are frustrated by tonight&#8217;s result. We prepared well, but we made too many mistakes at key moments to hope to beat Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;It hurts to concede the first goal so early, and then the second. We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601110124.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire coach \u00c9merse Fa\u00e9 expressed disappointment after his team&#8217;s 3-2 quarter-final loss to Egypt at the 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations. Mohamed Salah scored and assisted as Egypt absorbed C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire pressure, with efficient finishing proving decisive against the Elephants&#8217; dominance. &#8220;We are frustrated by tonight&#8217;s result. We prepared well, but we made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220028,"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\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7346,5958,5959,6531,41268,4697,415,11664,15234,257,19316,254],"class_list":["post-220027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-defeat","tag-divoireegypt","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-expresses","tag-frustration","tag-news","tag-quarterfinal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220027","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}