Amad Diallo keeps faith in qualification hopes

The African side pushed one of the tournament favourites all the way before conceding a late winner, having entered the clash full of confidence following their opening victory over Ecuador. 

The result leaves them needing a favourable result against Curacao in their final Group E fixture to strengthen their hopes of reaching the knockout stages.

Speaking afterwards, the Manchester United attacker admitted overcoming Die Mannschaft was always going to be a difficult task. 

"It was a really difficult game for us, and we knew it was going to be hard because we weren't playing against a top quality team and they have players that make make a difference at any point, but we are going to learn from this and we can still go through to the next round."

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Cote d’Ivoire have never made it past the group stage of the global showpiece and Diallo suggested this has also formed part of their discussions behind the scenes.