Pépé at the double as Côte d’Ivoire beat Curaçao and claim place in last 32

Pépé at the double as Côte d’Ivoire beat Curaçao and claim place in last 32 Côte d’Ivoire surviving the World Cup group stage for the first time, in the year of our football gods 2026, is one of those tidbits that sounds like it shouldn’t be true, and yet here we are.An underwhelming 2-0 victory, courtesy of Nicolas Pépé’s double, put the Ivorians through to the last 32 as group runners-up. But it was an imprecise contest here in Philadelphia, the cradle of Amer