Egypt vs Ivory Coast live: Score and latest updates from Afcon 2025 quarter-final tonight

Egypt look fairly dangerous pretty much every time they go forward, though Attia can’t get the cross past the first man this time round.

Marmoush thinks he’s almost clean through – and could have won a penalty as he’s clipped and goes down – but it turns out he’d strayed offside.

It’s been a fairly torrid opening period for the holders, though they have looked fairly settled when they’re in possession.

The Ivory Coast are still trying to settle as they look to recover from conceding early, and Guessand does well to win a free-kick around 35 yards out.

Amad swings it in but the Pharaohs clear for now.

What can the Ivory Coast muster up in response to falling behind early?

Amad beats his man in his first 1-v-1 but sees his cross turned behind for a corner.

The ball comes in but Egypt manage to head it clear.

GOAL! There’s barely been any time to settle and Egypt are ahead!

It’s Omar Marmoush who opens the scoring, latching onto a forward pass and knocking Kossounou off the ball before racing into the box and sliding a low finish past Fofana.

We’re underway in the final quarter-final at Afcon 2025/26!

Egypt face Ivory Coast for a place in next week’s semi-final against Senegal.

Both sides are emerging from the tunnel in Agadir, so we’ll be underway soon.

Can the holders advance to the last four tonight, or will the competition’s most successful team make it to yet another semi-final?

Kick-off is in just over 15 minutes in Agadir, so here’s a final reminder on how you can watch this afternoon’s match.

Egypt v Ivory Coast will kick off at 7pm GMT on Saturday, 10 January, 2026 at the Adrar Stadium. The match will be shown live on E4.

These two sides are among the most successful in the competition’s history – in fact, Egypt are the outright most successful side at Afcon, having won it a record seven times.

The Pharaohs won the first two editions of Afcon in 1957 and 1959, but were forced to wait 27 years for their third win, which came in 1986.

Another win came 12 years later in 1998, before their period of dominance in the 2000s, in which they won three straight tournaments – 2006, 2008 & 2010.

They beat an Ivory Coast squad including Didier Drogba in 2006, before beating Cameroon in 2008 and then World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana in 2010!

The Ivory Coast – who won the last Afcon in 2023 – have also seen a fair bit of continental success, winning the tournament three times.

Those other wins came in 1992 and 2015, with the golden generation of Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure, Salomon Kalou and Seydou Doumbia finally delivering a win.