{"id":532187,"date":"2026-09-26T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532187"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:21:21","slug":"ivory-coast-ghana-the-elephants-win-2-0-in-bouake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/ivory-coast-ghana-the-elephants-win-2-0-in-bouake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast-Ghana: The Elephants win 2-0 in Bouak\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast defeated Ghana 2-0 on Thursday, September 24, 2026, at the Stade de la Paix in Bouak\u00e9, in their first match of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Malick Yalcouy\u00e9 and Franck Kessi\u00e9 scored the two Ivorian goals.<\/p>\n<p>Yalcouy\u00e9 opened the scoring just before halftime with a powerful strike, following an Ivorian combination. The midfielder then earned a penalty, which Kessi\u00e9 converted in the 55th minute, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koaci.com\/article\/2026\/09\/24\/cote-divoire\/sport\/cote-divoire-eliminatoires-can-2027les-elephants-frappent-fort-face-au-ghana-a-bouake-2-0_200937.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report from Koaci<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports.fr\/football\/qualif-can-2027-cote-divoire-ghana-en-direct-1048428.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live coverage from Sports.fr<\/a> confirms the 2-0 victory of the Elephants and the main events of the match. Ghana tried to come back at the end of the game but failed to beat Yahia Fofana.<\/p>\n<p>This victory places Herv\u00e9 Renard\u2019s team in a favorable position in Group C, which also includes Gambia and Somalia. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/afcon2025\/news\/road-to-afcon-2027-totalenergies-caf-afcon-pamoja-2027-qualifiers-take-centre-stage-as-matchdays-1-and-2-kick-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAF had listed Ivory Coast-Ghana<\/a> among the main fixtures of the first day.<\/p>\n<p>The match marked the beginning of a new chapter for the Elephants under the leadership of Herv\u00e9 Renard, who had returned to head the national team. The coach started Yalcouy\u00e9 alongside Kessi\u00e9 and Ibrahim Sangar\u00e9 in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast must continue its campaign on Tuesday, September 29, against Somalia, at the F\u00e9lix-Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast dominated Ghana 2-0 on Thursday in Bouak\u00e9, thanks to Malick Yalcouy\u00e9 and Franck Kessi\u00e9, to kick off their 2027 AFCON qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":532188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_benews_format":"","_benews_media_url":"","_benews_urgent_until":0,"_benews_essentials":"","_benews_format_auto":"","_benews_nl_alert":false,"_benews_premium":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[133],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-news-benews-sport","pays-ivory-coast"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532189,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532187\/revisions\/532189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532187"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532187"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}