THE Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire’s fairytale continued as they came back from behind to beat Mali 2-1 on Saturday and reach the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-finals.
Nene Dorgeles opened the scoring for Mali in the 71st minute but Simon Adingra scored the equalizer in the 90th minute and Oumar Diakite scored the winner in the 120th minute.
Cote d’Ivoire finished the game with only nine men on the pitch as Odilon Kossounou was sent off in the 41st minute and Oumar Diakite was also shown the red in the 121st minute.
It will be recalled that the team qualified for the knockout stage as one of the four best losers having won only one game against Guinea-Bissau in the group stage. It lost the two other games against Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.
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