Situation confused in the preliminaries of the World Championship! The team with 0 goals received can miss the qualification
Article by Mihai Şovei – published on Saturday, October 11, 2025 23:54 / Updated on Saturday, October 11, 2025 23:54
The ivory coast is one of the African countries that force the qualification at the World Cup in 2026. Although they are leaders in their qualification group with a 22-0 goal, “elephants” may lose direct qualification.
The fate of Group F is decided on October 14, when the last matches in the qualifications in the African area take place.
Perfect defense but without World Cup?
The ivory coast is one African countries that know the feeling of qualification at the World Championship. This was present three consecutive editions, in 2006, 2010 and 2014. 11 years have passed since the last participation in a final tournament, but the national attacker Didier Drogba is confident that he will be present in the year.
At the last match of the qualifying campaign, the “elephants” did instruction with Seychelles, score 7-0. However, Gabon won 4-3 in front of Gambia, which postponed the festival of ivory.
At this moment the ivory coast is in 1st place, with 23 points, while Gabon is in 2nd place, with 22 points. Thus, a great surprise can occur in the last round.
If the ivory coast draws 0-0 with Kenya, and Gabon is in confrontation with Burundi, then they will miss the direct qualification with 0 goals received in 10 games.
With the morale raised after the Africa Cup on the nations
The latest edition of the Africa Cup on the nations was hosted by the ivory coast, and in the final the hosts met, with Nigeria.
The “elephants” won 2-1, managing to win the most prestigious trophy in African football. This success can be the element to feed the motivation of the players on the way to next year's “American dream”.
