{"id":3286,"date":"2026-06-14T22:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:32:29","slug":"ivory-coast-vs-ecuador-live-world-cup-2026-team-news-build-up-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast vs Ecuador LIVE: World Cup 2026 team news, build-up & latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Team news – Pepe starts for Ivory Coast, Valencia fit for Ecuador<\/span>published at 23:28 BST<\/span><\/p>\n
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Ivory Coast v Ecuador (00:00 BST)<\/span><\/p>\n
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Roma defender Evan Ndicka<\/b> is not fit to start after being an injury doubt but is on the bench for the Elephants ahead of their Group E opener. The African outfit’s manager Emerse \nFae had some decisions to make in attack and he’s gone for former Arsenal man Nicolas Pepe<\/b> along with Yan Diomande<\/b> and Elye Wahi<\/b> which means Manchester United’s Amad Diallo<\/b> is on the bench along with Sunderland’s Simon Adringa, Evan Guessand <\/b>and Ange-Yoan Bonny.<\/b><\/p>\n
Ivory Coast:<\/b> And Fofana; Doue, Singo, Barn, Conan; Y Diamond Kessie, S Fofana, Toure; Pepe, Revelation.<\/p>\n\n
End of Valencia <\/b>is fit to start which is a huge boost for Ecuador <\/b>as the veteran forward is their main goal threat. Former Brighton man Pervis Estupina<\/b> is a surprise exclusion from their starting line-up. Sunderland’s Nilson Angulo <\/b>is also on the bench but Arsenal’s Piero Hincapie<\/b> starts in a strong defence.<\/p>\n
Team news – Pepe starts for Ivory Coast, Valencia fit for Ecuadorpublished at 23:28 BST 23:28 BST Ivory Coast v…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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