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Match Recap
Malick Yalcouyé broke the deadlock right on the stroke of half-time, and Franck Kessié put the game to bed early in the second half as Ivory Coast shut out Ghana 2-0 in their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. Yalcouyé's 44th-minute strike gave the hosts the perfect platform, and Kessié doubled the lead just 14 minutes into the restart, turning a tense qualifier into a comfortable night's work. Neither M. Munetsi, the division's current top scorer, nor anyone else from the league's leading pack got on the scoresheet here, leaving Yalcouyé and Kessié to write the story on their own. It was a clinical, well-timed double: one goal to settle the nerves before the break, another to kill off any hope of a Ghana response. For a qualifier that could easily have been a grind, Ivory Coast made it look straightforward. Watch how Yalcouyé finds the net in first-half stoppage time, then see Kessié's early second-half finish put the result beyond doubt in the video highlights below.
