Drogba gazes glumly from the stands at his country’s national team getting beaten 4-0 by lowly Equatorial Guinea. Ranked 39 places lower than Ivory Coast they ripped the Ivorian defence apart in the second half after leading 1-0 at half-time.

Drogba,national icon and the country’s top goal scorer,said that there was “a real problem” after it was all over.

Ivory Coast’s future in AFCON 2023 is not now out of their hands.They can still secure a place in the knockout stage as one of the four best third-placed teams if Cameroon fail to beat Gambia on Tuesday.

Highlights of that upset..