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Ivory Coast booted out of AFCON 2017

By Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah
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Defending champions, Ivory Coast have been eliminated from the AFCON 2017 currently underway in Gabon.

Having drawn their first two Group C games, the Elephants needed a win in their last match to progress but were beaten 1-0 by Morocco.

In a not so interesting match, the Atlas Lions' Rachid Alioui produced a moment of magic in the 65th minute to win the game for the North Africans and take them into the quarter-finals.

Alioui after receiving a pass from a team-mate in the Ivory Coast area took a touch, looked up and beautifully curled a shot over the goalkeeper into the top right corner.