00:00.
00:05Tonight up against the quality that there is in this Ivorian side.
00:10Diomonte, a big star perhaps playing for Real Madrid,
00:14but throughout the Ivorian team,
00:16players playing in the very biggest teams in the very biggest leagues.
00:26Pepe playing off Wai through the middle.
00:29Amantiello on the right for the Elephants.
00:31Eli Wai getting the end of the pass here.
00:33Wai is just unable to get...
00:35He's picked this attack-minded team this evening, Herve Renard,
00:40and Eli Wai nearly getting on the end of that.
00:48Now, Diomonte, real anticipation around the ground when he gets on the ball
00:53as he takes it for a run, heading towards the byline.
00:56He's still got it, Diomonte, the throwaway.
00:59Threw it away by Bojang.
01:04Now, Diomonte, the run outside him being made.
01:11Malcouillet, of course, is a bit too high on the right-hand side.
01:18High ball towards the back post, headed away.
01:21As far only as Nicolas Pepe.
01:22Here is Yann Diomonte.
01:25Diomonte letting fly.
01:26That has been blocked.
01:29Again, corner kick partially cleared.
01:33Now they can be in defence.
01:34Pepe gives it to Diomonte.
01:40Spots the gap, and that was slammed into the side of Baggio.
01:49It was Nicolas Pepe, rather.
01:51I think Yann Kouillet is in a more advanced position.
01:55Coming up in that inside left area quite a lot.
01:58In the early stages, Yann Kouillet, short ball back the way.
02:01Diomonte to Wai, 2-0.
02:06It's a big mistake by the Gambian defence, and it's punished by the Ivorian attack.
02:24Well, a lethal start to the game from the Elephants, and Elie Wai, their new star in attack, gets his
02:31first goal.
02:33As a Cote d'Ivoire player.
02:36And if the Gambians fell.
02:38Throw in back the way, the short back pass, and Yann Diomonte was alive to it.
02:45Giving Wai an easy finish.
02:51And on the occasion of his ninth cap, Wai is off the mark.
03:03Across to Wai, on the far side, well played by Nicolas Pepe, Elie Wai and Diomonte.
03:09Yann Diomonte again, grips in the shot, and the follow-up effort from...
03:28The post-a-match has been played today.
03:32Tremendous performance, but they are...
03:35They have a lot of work still to do in this group, with Gana not out of it yet by
03:41any means.
03:41They want a result here tonight.
03:43Ahmad Diallo.
03:46Looking for Pepe.
03:47Diallo gets it back.
03:48Diomonte with the shot.
04:01Ahmad Diallo to Pepe.
04:07Ivan Indica, still alive.
04:11And then Diomonte drawing three Gambian defenders towards him.
04:16Plays it into the middle.
04:19Nobody was anticipating that.
04:32Real quality on the bench in particular.
04:35Martial Godot of Strasbourg in France, who has done really well at the club level in the last year or
04:42so.
04:44He's a substitute this evening.
04:57Pepe...
04:57Fire.
05:10Diomonte with the corner.
05:13High delivery, the goalkeeper was caught underneath that ball.
05:16Manchester City left at the end of last season when Pep Guardiola moved on.
05:25And Diomonte doing really well, looking for Eli Wai in the middle.
05:29Wai keeps it alive, laid back to the edge of the box, drilled in.
05:34Get a better look at this from behind the goal, Diomonte to Wai.
05:39Sengare wanted that ball and Sengare blasting it just past the post.
05:43Nicolas Pepe, to be fair, was in his line of sight.
05:51Diomonte again.
05:53This is just a little bit behind camera.
06:02The sense of the Ivorian defence are a little bit nervous when Minte gets on the ball.
06:06He's got that quality.
06:08Minte and Musabat set the Elephants on their way.
06:11But they still have work to do to see out the points.
06:152-1 they lead.
06:16They've had three attempts on target, two attempts on target for the Gambia.
06:21As a coach, he went to six in a row in the last decade before going away to elsewhere.
06:42So Diomonte then.
06:44He'll deliver this.
06:45There are six orange shirts waiting in the penalty box.
06:50Diakite.
06:51Diakite fires it in, stopped on the line.
06:55Barry wanted a penalty.
06:56The referee again is not interested.
06:58The break is on perhaps.
07:00Diakite.
07:03Diomonte.
07:06Diomonte to finish it off.
07:07To make it 3-1, it's a brilliant save.
07:13On the toe of Babou Kargay.
07:19He'd finish this game off once and for all.
07:24Real Madrid man denied.
07:27They souped it up and they'll just carry the ball forward and let the final whistle go.
07:32And that is it, they've done it.
07:35Coupe d'Ivoire have won again.
07:37The three-time African champions have three more points.
07:40On the road to next year's Cup of Nations.
07:45The winning record continues for Hervé Renard since his return.
07:56cellophane.
07:59Coupe d'Ivoire will win.
