{"id":1459,"date":"2024-01-14T05:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T05:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.24hscore.com\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2024-01-14T05:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T05:21:01","slug":"ivory-coast-met-guinea-bissau-in-african-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/football\/ivory-coast-met-guinea-bissau-in-african-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea-Bissau was defeated by Ivory Coast in the AFCON 2023 opening game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the opening match of the African Cup of Nations 2023, Ivory Coast faced Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tournament hosts displayed confidence from the start, securing an early lead in the 4th minute. Seko Fofana capitalized on his teammate&#8217;s pass, accurately sending the ball into the corner of the net and scoring the tournament&#8217;s inaugural goal. Ivory Coast maintained control of the game and had the opportunity to double their lead before halftime, but Jean-Philippe Krasso&#8217;s shot lacked precision. However, in the second half, the Red Star forward seized his chance, being the first to reach the rebound and essentially securing the match winner. In the remaining time, neither team managed to alter the score on the scoreboard. Thus, Ivory Coast initiated the African Cup at home with a comfortable victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ivory Coast 2-0 Guinea-Bissau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goals: Fofana 4, Krasso 58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get real-time <a href=\"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">football scores<\/a> here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL-TIME!<br><br>One goal in each half mean the hosts secure the first 3 points of the tournament. ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CIVGNB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CIVGNB<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TotalEnergiesAFCON2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TotalEnergiesAFCON2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EOD6H8UoEj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EOD6H8UoEj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CAF (@CAF_Online) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAF_Online\/status\/1746291824291873253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the upcoming second round, Ivory Coast will confront a challenging match against Nigeria, while Guinea-Bissau is set to face Equatorial Guinea. Both fixtures are scheduled for Thursday, January 18th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who else is watching the AFCON opening?<br><br>The different cultural display and the creativity is giving me goosebumps ??\u2764\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCON2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AFCON2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YzmkmKmZT2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/YzmkmKmZT2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Zahra Jarju ???? (@JarjuZahra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JarjuZahra\/status\/1746241370036076979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Waow. It is so SUPER!!<br>If you are African u wont pass without liking this tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCON2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AFCON2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhMsZJwQcU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AhMsZJwQcU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vers-Les-Cieux (@ruta_estrella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ruta_estrella\/status\/1746273166563922360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening match of the African Cup of Nations 2023, Ivory Coast faced Guinea-Bissau. The tournament hosts displayed confidence from the start, securing an early lead in the 4th minute. Seko Fofana capitalized on his teammate&#8217;s pass, accurately sending the ball into the corner of the net and scoring the tournament&#8217;s inaugural goal. Ivory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","rank_math_description":"In the opening match of the African Cup of Nations 2023, Ivory Coast faced Guinea-Bissau.\n","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,108,92,35,62],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-football","tag-football-2024","tag-football-news","tag-football2024","tag-footballnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}