Senegal, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Madagascar all delivered impressive displays in their international friendlies over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Korea 0\u20134 C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire cruised to a dominant 4\u20130 victory over South Korea in their international friendly at Stadium MK on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Strikes from Evann Guessand (35′), Simon Adingra (45’+1′), Martial Godo (62′) and Wilfried Singo (90’+3′) secured a comprehensive win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n South Korea made a bright start but were unable to convert their opportunities, and a defensive lapse eventually led to them conceding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key player Son Heung-min began the match on the bench due to a cold. He was introduced in the 58th minute, but could not change the course of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire will take on Scotland in their next friendly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Argentina 2\u20131 Mauritania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mauritania suffered a narrow 2-1 friendly international defeat to World Cup champions Argentina at La Bombonera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enzo Fernandez opened the scoring for the hosts in the 17th minute before Nico Paz netted his first international goal in the 31st minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lionel Messi entered the game in the second half but missed his best chance after 55 minutes, as Mauritania were delighted with a 93rd minute consolation from Jordan Lefort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Argentina next face Zambia at La Bombonera on March 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kyrgyzstan 2-5 Madagascar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Madagascar recorded an impressive 5-2 victory over Kyrgyzstan in their FIFA friendly international at the Emir Comples on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arnaud Randrianantenaina, Thomas Fontaine, William Caddy, Clement Couturier were all on target in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kyrgyzstan managed to pull two goals back around the hour mark in the second period, but Caddy sealed a comprehensive win with his 78th minute free-kick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Madagascar are next in action against Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senegal 2-0 Peru<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Senegal displayed their disputed Africa Cup of Nations trophy ahead of their 2-0 friendly win over Peru at Stade de France over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicolas Jackson opened the scoring in the 41st minute and Ismaila Sarr rounded off the result with his effort with 54 minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senegal next head home to play neighbours Gambia in Dakar on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senegal, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Madagascar all delivered impressive displays in their international friendlies over the weekend. South Korea 0\u20134 C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire cruised to a dominant 4\u20130 victory over South Korea in their international friendly at Stadium MK on Saturday. Strikes from Evann Guessand (35′), Simon Adingra (45’+1′), Martial Godo (62′) and Wilfried Singo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-sporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17645,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions\/17645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}