Franck Kessie stepped up from the penalty spot to send defending champions Senegal tumbling out of the Africa Cup of Nations and spark wild celebrations in Yamoussoukro.
Match Report
Reigning Africa Cup of Nations champions Senegal have been eliminated at the last-16 stage of the competition following a penalty shootout defeat to hosts Ivory Coast.
The contest finished 1-1 after extra-time before Ivory Coast progressed 5-4 on penalties.
Ivory Coast had only scraped through to the last 16, relying on results elsewhere in the final round of group games to qualify as one of the best third-placed teams.
Senegal, meanwhile, won three of three in the group and scored eight goals, conceding only once.
Habib Diallo had given Senegal the lead inside four minutes at the Charles Konan Banny Stadium.
Ivory Coast levelled with four minutes remaining through a Franck Kessie penalty to force extra time, after VAR awarded a spot kick following an Edouard Mendy foul on Nicolas Pepe.
Kessie then scored the decisive penalty in the shootout to send the hosts through, capitalising on Moussa Niakhate’s missed spot kick.
Ivory Coast sacked their coach Jean-Louis Gasset less than a week ago, two days after they were thrashed 4-0 by Equatorial Guinea. It was the heaviest home defeat in Ivory Coast history. Emerse Fae is leading the team on an interim basis and this was his first match in charge of a senior team.
Senegal won AFCON two years ago for the first time in their history with a penalty shootout victory over Egypt in the final.
Ivory Coast will play the winner of Tuesday’s fixture between Mali and Burkina Faso in the quarter-finals.
Match Events
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4' GOAL! Senegal 1-0 Ivory Coast (Habib Diallo)
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86' Penalty Goal! Senegal 1-1 Ivory Coast (Franck Kessie)
Line-ups
Senegal XI: Koulibaly, Mane, Edouard Mendy, Diallo, Niakhate, Habib Diallo, Sarr, Diatta, Ismail Jakobs, Pape Matar Sarr, Lamine Camara
Subs: Kouyate, Gueye, Nampalys Mendy, Mory Diaw, Gomis, F.Toure, Abdoulaye Seck, Pathé Ciss, Iliman Ndiaye, Formose Mendy, Nicolas Jackson, Bamba Dieng
Ivory Coast XI: Gradel, Aurier, Seri, S.Fofana, Jean-Philippe Krasso, Sangare, Ghislain Konan, Yahia Fofana, N'Dicka, Odilon, Oumar Diakité
Subs: Boly, Haller, Badra Ali Sangaré, Jérémie Boga, Pepe, Kessie, Ismaël Diallo, Kouame, Lazare Amani, Idrissa Doumbia, Singo, Simon Adingra
neoabdkpy
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AFCON is the most entertaining league in the world 🌎 The vibes 🤼♂️ The intensity ⚡️ Unpredictable 💯 The chaos 🤺 The rivalries 🤜🏿🤛🏿 and many more that just make this competition more special 😍
Omo_Ologo
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Ghana... out Algeria... out Egypt... out Cameroon... out Senegal... out Tunisia... out only three big boys remaining in the competition.... It's good for the advert, but it's bad for business, especially attendance and streaming.... maybe it's the year of underdog, just like Euros2004 wen Greece won it against all odds or Epl 2016 when Leicester defied 5000/1 odds, or even Zambia miraculous afcon win of 2012, and this could only happen bcos the big teams were shit.... excluding Senegal other big teams have been shit in this tournament. Imagine even Ivory Coast playing almost nothing throughout the game except a penalty to equalise and shoot out... Africa needs to step up if we really want to compete shoulder to shoulder with our European counterpart.... several African teams will drop in the next fifa ranking, and this might affect our World Cup slot.... yes, some will rise, but they won't have the desired effect.... we need to break into the top 20, not the top 150 Mauritania had 0 shot on target in a 1-0 knockout loss same as Cameroon.... the idea u want to sell is not that of small teams who won't make d world Cup going all d way while the big boys are playing shit... this will b hard to attract investors and sponsors.... imagine no Mane, Salah, Vincent, Mahrez, Kudus, Jackson, Koulibaly, etc. again in d competition, these are the names that will attract investors... we still have Osimhen, Hakimi, Ziyech, Kessie, Aurier, Ambrabat, etc, but we can't compare their global pool.... even Osimhen, who is the reigning African best, can't compare with salah yet when it comes to global attraction.... we really need to step up African teams....
JoeySarpong
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This guy (Frank kessie) scored the equalizer and also the last winning penalty goal. well done ✅ 👍
colomba_ppe
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Equatorial Guinea right now after seeing Ivory coast that they beat 4 : 0 progressing into the quarter finals
colomba_ppe
534
Equatorial Guinea right now be like, but we beat this Ivory coast 4 : 0, how come they progressed to the quarters
kazapride
497
Ivory Coast fans took the group stage insults very serious, so dey went on dry fasting for three days 💯💯 God is good ooo 💯 miracle worker 🙏
CHRISBLAISE24
450
Drogba watching penalty 🤣🤣
General_Sine
428
Ivory Coast got humiliated by Equatorial Guinea -They thought of elimination but they survived -They sacked their coach -people were like what’s the point of qualifying to meet Senegal -Equatorial Guinea are out -They have just sent Senegal home Tell me why you don’t like football. Unreal sport
Adolfbaba
411
This life is not balanced .. Equatorial Guinea defeated Ivory Coast 4-0 and topped the group but they are already at home... Ivory coast were defeated 0-4 and only qualified by the whiskers but now they have sent the defending champions who qualified with Nine points home...
Adozjj
359
Give NIGERIA 🇳🇬 the trophy 🏆 already Our biggest threat is out
CounselorOla
298
No tournament is better than AFCON. Here in Africa, a small nation can beat the strongest but not in Europe.
FootballKing08
256
Some where in Ivory Coast Didier Drogba at the moment be like👇💯😂😂😂
FootballKing08
203
Cameroon out Senegal out Ghana out Algeria out Egypt out Tunsia out and many more Big Dogs out 💔 Ivory Coast Football president was right when he said " This AFCON will be the best ever "💯👏🔥
Donahue
179
Here is the GIF, click: http://www.goalgif.xyz/v2/live/matchGifs?match_id=53786751&language=en
Didi66
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A conversation before the game 🔥
CounselorOla
170
AFCON is stronger than European football. Equatorial Guinea defeated Ivory Coast 4-0 and topped the group but they are already at home... Ivory Coast was defeated 0-4 and only qualified by the whiskers but now they have sent the defending champions who qualified with Nine points home.
mankind12345
168
Yah VAR today failed to Red card Mane 😭😭😭😭Thnks Cote d Voire for da Justice🤣🤣🤣
Tiyaosyz
168
Football is a crazy sport!! Last week, Ivory Coast were on the brink of elimination while Senegal were completing their group domination with 9 maximum points. Now Ivory Coast have advanced to the last 8 at the expense of the best team in the group state, Senegal.
colomba_ppe
112
Ahhh did you notice there a cursed behind this 100% record in group stage of AFCON, yes that is true it also happened to Nigeria in the last AFCON 2021
Vuacekmnoy
109
what Drogba said has happened. He said Senegal 🇸🇳 has never bet them and they will not. congrats to Drogba
CounselorOla
71
Reigning champions Senegal are 𝙊𝙐𝙏 of AFCON 🇸🇳❌ The title slips from their grasp 😰