{"id":237969,"date":"2026-07-02T05:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-bow-out-of-fifa-world-cup-with-narrow-loss-to-norway\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:58:52","slug":"cote-divoire-bow-out-of-fifa-world-cup-with-narrow-loss-to-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-bow-out-of-fifa-world-cup-with-narrow-loss-to-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d’Ivoire Bow Out of FIFA World Cup With Narrow Loss to Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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C\u00f4te d’Ivoire produced an impressive second-half display, inspired by the introduction of Amad Diallo, but suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 defeat to Norway after Erling Haaland struck late to seal victory.<\/p>\n

The Elephants came within inches of earning a deserved point, only for Evann Guessand’s header deep into stoppage time to drift just wide.<\/p>\n

The Ivorians made a cautious start against the dangerous partnership of Martin \u00d8degaard and Erling Haaland. Yan Diomand\u00e9 tested the Norwegian defence early…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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C\u00f4te d’Ivoire produced an impressive second-half display, inspired by the introduction of Amad Diallo, but suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 defeat to Norway after Erling Haaland struck late to seal victory. The Elephants came within inches of earning a deserved point, only for Evann Guessand’s header deep into stoppage time to drift just wide. The Ivorians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237970,"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\/00681851:a5f1d5e02238292420a4d834c805955e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,18307,5958,6183,6555,6674,5959,9109,1218,9183,16485,257,684,254,5093],"class_list":["post-237969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bow","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cup","tag-divoire","tag-fifa","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-narrow","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681851:a5f1d5e02238292420a4d834c805955e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237969","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=237969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}