\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Amad Diallo scored in the 90th minute to lift Ivory Coast to a 1-0 victory over Ecuador in its first World Cup appearance in a dozen years.The teams combined to hit the crossbar three times before the Manchester United winger \u2014 who entered as a substitute in the 56th minute \u2014 broke through with a left-footed shot from just inside the penalty area that beat diving goalkeeper Hern\u00e1n Gal\u00edndez. Wilfried Singo set up the goal with a strong run down the right side.Making its fourth appearance in the World Cup and first since 2014, Ivory Coast took a step toward reaching the knockout stage for the first time. Ecuador saw its 19-game unbeaten streak end with its first loss since a 1-0 decision against Brazil on Sept. 6, 2024.Elye Wahi hit the crossbar in the 52nd minute for Ivory Coast after Ecuador\u2019s John Yeboah and Nilson Angulo did the same in the opening half.Ecuador, making its fifth World Cup appearance and looking to reach the knockout round for the second time, was playing a virtual home game at Lincoln Financial Field, with most of the capacity crowd of 68,274 wearing the yellow jerseys of La Tri.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Amad Diallo scored in the 90th minute to lift Ivory Coast to a 1-0 victory over Ecuador in its first World Cup appearance in a dozen years.<\/p>\n
The teams combined to hit the crossbar three times before the Manchester United winger \u2014 who entered as a substitute in the 56th minute \u2014 broke through with a left-footed shot from just inside the penalty area that beat diving goalkeeper Hern\u00e1n Gal\u00edndez. Wilfried Singo set up the goal with a strong run down the right side.<\/p>\n
Making its fourth appearance in the World Cup and first since 2014, Ivory Coast took a step toward reaching the knockout stage for the first time. Ecuador saw its 19-game unbeaten streak end with its first loss since a 1-0 decision against Brazil on Sept. 6, 2024.<\/p>\n
Elye Wahi hit the crossbar in the 52nd minute for Ivory Coast after Ecuador\u2019s John Yeboah and Nilson Angulo did the same in the opening half.<\/p>\n
Ecuador, making its fifth World Cup appearance and looking to reach the knockout round for the second time, was playing a virtual home game at Lincoln Financial Field, with most of the capacity crowd of 68,274 wearing the yellow jerseys of La Tri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Amad Diallo scored in the 90th minute to lift Ivory Coast to a 1-0 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13971,43313,69,71,70,2236],"class_list":["post-219313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ecuador","tag-ivory-coast","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}