Ivory Coast show superiority with win

[Folami David]

Gervinho scored 2 goals while Didier Drogba and Yaya Toure were yellow carded as Ivory Coast showed their superiority over Egypt with a 4-2 win four days before the African Cup of Nations kicks off.
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The title favourites recovered from falling behin midway through the first half at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi to lead by 2 goals early in the 2nd half, but needed a late Didier Ya Konan goal to seal success.
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Lanky Lacina Traore, sporting an orange mohawk haircut, was the other scorer for the Ivorian Elephants while Mohammed Aboutrika and Mohammed ''Gedo'' Nagy were on target for non-qualifiers Egypt in a free-flowing game.
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It was the only warm-up for the Elephants before they face Togo on January 22 in Group D - labelled the group of death with former champions Algeria and Tunisia the other contenders for two quaterfinals places.