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Hervé Renard has many friends in Algeria but says he intends reducing them to tears after they have face his Ivory Coast side in the quarter final of the Africa Cup of Nations
• Ivory Coast beat Cameroon to top groupThe good news for Ivory Coast is that they’re through. They’re not playing with any great fluency or style, but they have made it through to the quarter-final, where they will face Algeria, and there is at least about them a sense of purpose and defensive resolve. “We will fight like elephants,” said Kolo Touré after a second successive draw had left them needing to win their final game, against Cameroon, to progress and if that means presenting a solid barrier, absorbing blows before prevailing through a goal based in raw power, they did just that.
Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Cameroon, a team who had beaten them 4-1 in qualifying, was classic Hervé Renard. Perhaps there was a thought that he had his Zambia side play as they did because they were Zambia, defending deep and looking to win games by a single goal, but he has transplanted the mentality to Ivory Coast and – so far – it is working. “I know you want to see a team that is always attacking but there are few national teams like that,” he said. “Germany are always going forwards but we are not Germany; we are Ivory Coast.”
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• Ivory Coast beat Cameroon to top groupThe good news for Ivory Coast is that they’re through. They’re not playing with any great fluency or style, but they have made it through to the quarter-final, where they will face Algeria, and there is at least about them a sense of purpose and defensive resolve. “We will fight like elephants,” said Kolo Touré after a second successive draw had left them needing to win their final game, against Cameroon, to progress and if that means presenting a solid barrier, absorbing blows before prevailing through a goal based in raw power, they did just that.
Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Cameroon, a team who had beaten them 4-1 in qualifying, was classic Hervé Renard. Perhaps there was a thought that he had his Zambia side play as they did because they were Zambia, defending deep and looking to win games by a single goal, but he has transplanted the mentality to Ivory Coast and – so far – it is working. “I know you want to see a team that is always attacking but there are few national teams like that,” he said. “Germany are always going forwards but we are not Germany; we are Ivory Coast.”
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