Ivory Coast and Norway have confirmed their beginning groups for his or her assembly within the World Cup spherical of 32 in Dallas on Tuesday.
The Elephants completed second in Group E courtesy of a 1-0 win over Ecuador and 2-0 victory towards Curacao both aspect of a 2-1 defeat to Germany.
Stale Solbakken’s aspect beat Iraq 4-1 and Senegal 3-2 earlier than resting 10 gamers for his or her 4-1 defeat to France.
The winners of this tie will meet report five-time champions Brazil within the final 16 in New Jersey on Sunday (21:00 BST).
World Cup 2026: Ivory Coast confirmed crew vs Norway
Ivory Coast make three adjustments from that win over Curacao.
Ivory Coast beginning XI: Yahia Fofana, Ghislain Konan, Odilon Kossounou, Guela Doue, Emmanuel Agbadou, Franck Kessie, Ibrahim Sangare, Christ Inao Oulai, Ange-Yoan Bonny, Yan Diomande, Nicolas Pepe,
Ivory Coast substitutes: To observe
World Cup 2026: Norway full line up vs Ivory Coast
Norway make 10 alterations from their defeat to France, with Patrick Berg the one participant to retain his place.
Norway beginning XI: Orjan Nyland, Kristoffer Ajer, David Moller Wolfe, Marcus Holmgren Pedersen, Torbjorn Heggem, Patrick Berg, Sander Berge, Martin Odegaard, Alexander Sorloth, Erling Haaland, Antonio Nusa
Norway substitutes:
The place to look at Ivory Coast vs Norway: TV channel, dwell on-line stream
Kick-off on Tuesday is at 18:00 BST (13:00 ET / 10:00 PT). Within the UK, dwell TV protection is on BBC One.
Streaming on an unlimited vary of gadgets is on the market by way of the BBC iPlayer app and BBC Sport web site.
World Cup 2026: Ivory Coast vs Norway stats
- Ivory Coast have received a number of video games at a World Cup for the primary time and scored the opening aim in all three group video games
- They’ve received certainly one of their 5 World Cup matches towards European opposition (D1 L3), includng their final two such video games
- In opposition to Curacao, Nicolas Pepe grew to become the second Ivorian to attain twice in a match on the finals, 20 years after Aruna Dindane did so towards Serbia
- At 31 years and 27 days of age, Pepe was the second-oldest African to attain twice in a World Cup match, after Roger Milla for Cameroon towards Colombia in 1990 (38 years, 34 days)
- Yan Diomande is the second African participant to finish not less than 10 dribbles (10) and create not less than 10 probabilities (10) in a single World Cup group stage, after South Africa’s Quinton Fortune in 2002
- Norway have misplaced two of their 19 contests with African nations in all competitions (W9 D8), struggling defeats in friendlies towards Senegal (in 2006) and South Africa (2009)
- Their two World Cup conferences with African opponents have produced that 3-2 victory over Senegal on Matchday 2 and a 2-2 draw with Morocco in 1998
- That is Norway’s third ever knockout match on the finals, beforehand dropping towards Italy in 1938 (2-1) and 1998 (1-0)
- Solbakken’s aspect haven’t misplaced successive matches since September 2022, towards Slovenia and Serbia within the Nations League
- Erling Haaland might develop into the primary participant since Hungary’s Sandor Kocsis in 1954 to attain in every of first his three World Cup appearances
