Olympic Football Tournaments Beijing 2008 - Men

Matches

07/08/2008

Côte d'Ivoire Argentina

1:2

1:2 (0:1)

Sekou CISSE (53')

Lionel MESSI (43')
Lautaro ACOSTA (86')

Match 2

Shanghai
Shanghai Stadium

Referee: Wolfgang STARK (GER)

Summary

Messi sinks brave Ivorians

Lionel Messi scored one and set up another as Argentina escaped with a 2-1 victory from a thrilling encounter with Côte d'Ivoire. More »

Line-up

CIV

ARG

1 Vincent ANGBAN (GK) $.img{src:'/s/266971.png'} CIV1 Vincent ANGBAN	1 (GK) Oscar USTARI $.img{src:'/s/200129.png'} ARG1 Oscar USTARI
2 Serge WAWA $.img{src:'/s/291313.png'} CIV2 Serge WAWA	2 Ezequiel GARAY $.img{src:'/s/200130.png'} ARG2 Ezequiel GARAY
3 Ousmane Viera DIARRASSOUBA $.img{src:'/s/291332.png'} CIV3 Ousmane Viera DIARRASSOUBA	3 Luciano MONZON $.img{src:'/s/298894.png'} ARG3 Luciano MONZON
5 Brou ANGOUA $.img{src:'/s/291321.png'} CIV5 Brou ANGOUA	4 Pablo ZABALETA $.img{src:'/s/182379.png'} ARG4 Pablo ZABALETA
6 Herve KAMBOU $.img{src:'/s/291316.png'} CIV6 Herve KAMBOU	5 Fernando GAGO $.img{src:'/s/201001.png'} ARG5 Fernando GAGO
7 Kafoumba COULIBALY $.img{src:'/s/268230.png'} CIV7 Kafoumba COULIBALY	9 (-63' ) Ezequiel LAVEZZI $.img{src:'/s/229392.png'} ARG9 Ezequiel LAVEZZI
8 Salomon KALOU $.img{src:'/s/216970.png'} CIV8 Salomon KALOU	10 (C) Juan RIQUELME $.img{src:'/s/166380.png'} ARG10 Juan RIQUELME
12 Mamadou BAGAYOKO $.img{src:'/s/298642.png'} CIV12 Mamadou BAGAYOKO	12 Nicolas PAREJA $.img{src:'/s/298605.png'} ARG12 Nicolas PAREJA
14 GERVINHO (C) $.img{src:'/s/290186.png'} CIV14 GERVINHO	14 Javier MASCHERANO $.img{src:'/s/182372.png'} ARG14 Javier MASCHERANO
17 Antoine N GOSSAN $.img{src:'/s/235081.png'} CIV17 Antoine N GOSSAN (-63' )	15 (-90'+4 ) Lionel MESSI $.img{src:'/s/229397.png'} ARG15 Lionel MESSI
18 Sekou CISSE $.img{src:'/s/291318.png'} CIV18 Sekou CISSE (-74' )	16 (-80' ) Sergio AGUERO $.img{src:'/s/228528.png'} ARG16 Sergio AGUERO

Substitute(s)

4 Souleymane BAMBA $.img{src:'/s/207946.png'} CIV4 Souleymane BAMBA	6 Federico FAZIO $.img{src:'/s/266784.png'} ARG6 Federico FAZIO
9 Franck DJA DJEDJE $.img{src:'/s/216966.png'} CIV9 Franck DJA DJEDJE (+63')	7 (+90'+4) Jose SOSA $.img{src:'/s/207601.png'} ARG7 Jose SOSA
10 Emmanuel KONE $.img{src:'/s/240681.png'} CIV10 Emmanuel KONE	8 Ever BANEGA $.img{src:'/s/266790.png'} ARG8 Ever BANEGA
11 Anthony MOURA-KOMENAN $.img{src:'/s/291335.png'} CIV11 Anthony MOURA-KOMENAN (+74')	11 (+63') Angel DI MARIA $.img{src:'/s/266800.png'} ARG11 Angel DI MARIA
13 Abraham GUIE-GUIE $.img{src:'/s/291330.png'} CIV13 Abraham GUIE-GUIE	13 (+80') Lautaro ACOSTA $.img{src:'/s/266801.png'} ARG13 Lautaro ACOSTA
15 Ladji TAMLA $.img{src:'/s/291315.png'} CIV15 Ladji TAMLA	17 Diego BUONANOTTE $.img{src:'/s/228529.png'} ARG17 Diego BUONANOTTE
16 Christian OKOUA $.img{src:'/s/298643.png'} CIV16 Christian OKOUA	18 Sergio ROMERO $.img{src:'/s/266783.png'} ARG18 Sergio ROMERO

Coaches

Gerard GILI (FRA)

(ARG) Sergio BATISTA

Officials

Referee: Wolfgang STARK (GER)Assistant Referee 1: Volker WEZEL (GER)Assistant Referee 2: Jan-Hendrik SALVER (GER)Fourth official: Thomas EINWALLER (AUT)

"The combination of a creator like [Juan Roman] Riquelme and a player like [Lionel] Messi was what proved our undoing. That said, we did a great job. Unfortunately we switched off in the last five minutes and we paid for that with the defeat. We're disappointed," Gerard Gili, Côte d'Ivoire coach.

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Olympic Football Tournaments Beijing 2008 - Men

Matches

Côte d'IvoireArgentina

Summary

Line-up

CIV1

ARG1

CIV2

ARG2

CIV3

ARG3

CIV5

ARG4

CIV6

ARG5

CIV7

ARG9

CIV8

ARG10

CIV12

ARG12

CIV14

ARG14

CIV17

ARG15

CIV18

ARG16

Substitute(s)

CIV4

ARG6

CIV9

ARG7

CIV10

ARG8

CIV11

ARG11

CIV13

ARG13

CIV15

ARG17

CIV16

ARG18

Coaches

Officials

Photos

Quotes

Côte d'Ivoire Argentina