Hot Egypt crush Ivory Coast
Thursday, 07 February 08, 04:35 PM
Egypt will defend its African Cup of Nations title in the championship game after routing Ivory Coast 4-1 in Kumasi tonight.
Two goals from in-form striker Amr Zaki sealed victory for Egypt after with Abdulkader Keita's goal in between offering a glimmer of hope to the Elephants.
Zaki's first goal appeared to close the door on Ivory Coast in the 62nd minute before Keita struck back almost immediately.
But within five minutes Zaki produced a sweet strike of his own to restore Egypt's two-goal cushion.
Mohamed Aboutreika iced the win with a goal in stoppage time, while it was Ahmed Fathi who opened the scoring for Egypt and gave it a 1-0 half time lead.
Ivory Coast endured a miserable night with goalkeeper Boubacar Barry leaving the game injured and Kolo Toure, rushed back from injury, well off his game.
After disrupting what had been a flawless centre-back paring of Didier Zokora and Marc Zoro, it was the latter who made way for Toure.
Ivory Coast now go to the game most of the experts predicted would be the final, but is instead a third-place playoff with Ghana in Kumasi on Saturday.
Egypt now defends its crown against Cameroon in Accra on Sunday.
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