Germany thrashed debutants Curacao 7-1 in the other group game in Houston<\/a> and will meet the Ivorians next on Saturday. Ecuador face Curacao the same day.<\/p>\nEcuador\u2019s unbeaten run broken<\/p>\n
Ecuador\u2019s 19-game unbeaten run dating back to September 2024 was brought to an end, but they will consider themselves unfortunate after spurning several opportunities in an entertaining end-to-end game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game slipped away from us,\u201d midfielder Moises Caicedo said. \u201cWe played well, and they (Ivory Coast) gave it their all too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough to start off on the back foot, but this is just the beginning. We can\u2019t let our spirits drop, and there are two more finals coming up. We\u2019re going to bounce back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re leaving sad because we couldn\u2019t bring joy to the fans who came out. It felt we were playing in Guayaquil, Quito. But we\u2019ll fight until the end to bring them joy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeboah was the first to rattle the crossbar with a rasping shot from the edge of the box, before Minda latched onto Pedro Vite\u2019s pass and beat the keeper, but not the bar.<\/p>\n
Diomande was a constant threat on the wing with his pace and skill, but blazed over the bar after dancing past two defenders and creating a chance he should have buried.<\/p>\n
The Ivorians were next to be denied by the woodwork when Diomande picked out Elye Wahi in the box and the latter turned the ball onto the crossbar.<\/p>\n
It looked as though it would be a frustrating finish for both sides, before substitute Amad coolly slotted home.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went back to the dressing room at 0-0 and second half we told ourselves we would have more space and should keep focus because in the first half we lost the ball,\u201d Ivorian coach Emerse Fae said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo or three times we gave the opponent opportunities, but we held firm and notched up a good three points.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast and Manchester United\u2019s Amad Diallo scored a clinical 90th-minute winner to earn his side a 1-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21068],"tags":[21104,21103,22475,22265,171,3491,42,284],"class_list":["post-36799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-e-on","tag-e-on","tag-e-on-se","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-liverpool","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}