World Cup 2014: Ivory Coast vs Japan 2 – 1

Ivory Coast showed Nigeria how to do it against Iran as the African country beat the Asian team 2-1.The Elephants recovered from a goal down, inspired by Didier Drogba's second-half appearance.

Goals

Japan - Keisuke Honda 16'


Ivory Coast - Wilfried Bony 64', Gervinho 66'

Ivory Coast:Boubacar Barry - Serge Aurier, Didier Zokora, Sol Bamba, Arthur Boka (Constant Djakpa 75') - Serey Die (Didier Drogba 62'), Yaya Toure (c), Cheick Tiote - Salomon Kalou, Wilfried Bony (Didier Ya Konan 78'), Gervinho

Japan:Eiji Kawashima - Atsuto Uchida, Maya Yoshida, Masato Morishige, Yuto Nagatomo - Hotaru Yamaguchi, Makoto Hasebe (c) (Yasuhito Endo 54') - Shinji Okazaki, Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa (Yoichiro Kakitani 86') - Yuya Osako (Yoshito Okubo 67')

Yellow cards:Bamba 54', Zokora 58' - Yoshida 23', Morishige 64'

Stadium:Arena Pernambuco, Recife

Attendance:40,267