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C\u00f4te d’Ivoire coach Emerse Fa\u00e9 was left to lament missed chances after the Elephants suffered a 2-1 defeat to Germany in their second FIFA World Cup 2026 group match on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The former African champions had taken the lead through Franck Kessi\u00e9 and looked capable of securing a famous result, only for Germany to hit back late on and leave the Ivorians needing a positive result in their final group match to keep their hopes alive.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the encounter, Fa\u00e9 admitted his side had been…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> C\u00f4te d’Ivoire coach Emerse Fa\u00e9 was left to lament missed chances after the Elephants suffered a 2-1 defeat to Germany in their second FIFA World Cup 2026 group match on Saturday. The former African champions had taken the lead through Franck Kessi\u00e9 and looked capable of securing a famous result, only for Germany to hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237255,"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\/00681757:6bcb8d6b317267740ec33aee58da746f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,50526,6038,5759,5192,1218,8778,17045,257,13281,18456,5758,254],"class_list":["post-237254","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-fae","tag-final","tag-focus","tag-group","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-match","tag-missed","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-rues","tag-shifts","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681757:6bcb8d6b317267740ec33aee58da746f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237254","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=237254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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