{"id":15310,"date":"2024-02-03T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-ivory-coast-qualify-for-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T21:02:34","slug":"afcon-2023-ivory-coast-qualify-for-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-ivory-coast-qualify-for-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Ivory Coast qualify for semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Elephants of Cote d\u2019Ivoire booked their place in the semi-final of the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday after they defeated Mali 2-1 in the quarter-final tie at the Stade Bouak\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>N. Dorgeles put Mali in front in the 71st minute.<\/p>\n<p>However, S. Adingra scored a late goal to force the game into extra time.<\/p>\n<p>But a late 120th-minute goal from O. Diakite ensured the host nation defeated Mali and avoided a penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams received one red card each during the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Cote d\u2019Ivoire, the host of the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, will now face DR Congo in the last four on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Congo defeated Guinea 3-1 in a last 16 tie on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Ivory Coast qualify for semi-final<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elephants of Cote d\u2019Ivoire booked their place in the semi-final of the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,8918,15,160],"tags":[210,110,8919,8920,180,201],"class_list":["post-15310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-ivory-coast","category-news","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-coast","tag-ivory","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}