Earlier, Jamie O'Hara and Didier Zokora dragged shots wide for Spurs, while Emile Heskey was denied by Heurelho Gomes and Amr Zaki headed just wide.

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Just before the hour Ramos made his second substitution, bringing on winger Aaron Lennon for Ledley King as Didier Zokora moved to the centre of the defence.

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English-based Emmanuel Eboue and Didier Zokora worked tirelessly for Ivory Coast but the Africans lacked a finishing touch in the absence of Chelsea pair Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou.

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Ivory Coast were courageous in defence - Didier Zokora, for example, receiving a kick in his arm after bravely heading a cross that Liedson tried to volley - and showed an organisation and discipline in their play that suggested talk of fractures in their squad are wide of the mark.

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