Ivory Coast vs Norway - prediction, team news, lineups | World Cup 2026

Dallas Stadium volition beryllium the backdrop for an enticing World Cup 2026 round of 32 clash connected Tuesday, erstwhile Ivory Coast look Norway.

Les Elephants qualified by finishing 2nd down Germany successful Group E, portion the Vikings progressed arsenic runners-up down France successful Group I.

Match preview

Emerse Fae's Ivory Coast person reached the knockout stages of a World Cup for the archetypal clip successful their history, and they volition beryllium keen to marque definite the juncture is much than a specified novelty.

The Elephants came into this summer's tourney connected the backmost of a four-game winning streak, and they carried that momentum into their opener connected June 15, erstwhile they bushed Ecuador 1-0.

However, Fae's broadside came up abbreviated against Germany connected matchday 2 successful Toronto, wherever Franck Kessie gave the African federation a first-half lead, lone for substitute Deniz Undav to container a brace and flip the lucifer connected its head.

To beryllium just to Ivory Coast, they were competitory against Julian Nagelsmann's star-studded squad, and they volition instrumentality bosom from their show going into Tuesdays contest, which volition spot them look importantly weaker European opposition.

Rounding disconnected their Group E campaign, the Elephants' Nicolas Pepe scored either broadside of fractional clip to down World Cup debutants Curacao 2-0.

Alongside securing 2nd spot successful the group, that triumph marked Fae's 3rd cleanable expanse successful his past 5 games, and if the likes of Pepe and Yan Diomande tin proceed to execute astatine their best, past Ivory Coast volition beryllium a superior menace going guardant arsenic good arsenic pugnacious astatine the back.

Meanwhile, Stale Solbakken's Norway are playing astatine their archetypal World Cup successful 28 years - since France 1998 - and their talisman Erling Haaland has led the mode connected the roadworthy to the circular of 32.

The Manchester City striker scored doubly successful the Vikings' 4-1 opening triumph against Iraq, though it would beryllium just to accidental that the scoreline did not bespeak the information that the Lions of Mesopotamia ran them adjacent successful the archetypal half.

A 2nd Haaland brace was capable to support Africa Cup of Nations finalists Senegal astatine bay successful a 3-2 triumph connected June 23, and means that the 25-year-old heads into this knockout necktie with a staggering instrumentality of 59 goals crossed his 52 caps.

Norway person not been the strongest broadside astatine this summer's tournament, but Haaland's finishing has been the difference-maker, and erstwhile helium sat retired against France connected Friday, the Vikings failed to laic a mitt connected Les Bleus arsenic they were thrashed 4-1.

Notably, Solbakken's men person kept conscionable 1 cleanable expanse successful their past 10 outings - drafting 0-0 with Switzerland connected March 31 - and their antiaircraft vulnerability makes the pricing connected some teams to people worthy checking retired connected the best World Cup betting sites.

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Team News

Ivory Coast could beryllium without right-sided centre-back Wilfried Singo erstwhile again, aft the Galatasaray prima sat retired Thursday's triumph implicit Curacao owed to a hamstring injury.

The defender is simply a uncertainty for Tuesday, but Ousmane Diomande and Odilon Kossounou should beryllium connected manus to commencement astatine the bosom of Fae's backline, flanked by Guela Doue and Ghislain Konan.

As for Norway, right-back Julian Ryserson is simply a uncertainty aft missing the nonaccomplishment against France with a thigh injury, though manager Solbakken described him arsenic improving each time and helium could marque the XI.

If the Borussia Dortmund antheral is unavailable, past Benfica midfielder Fredrik Aursnes whitethorn displacement to the close broadside of the Vikings' defence, with Patrick Berg joining Sander Berge and Martin Odegaard successful the centre of the park.

Man City's Erling Haaland volition pb the enactment for Norway erstwhile again, hoping to adhd to his 4 goals astatine this summer's World Cup connected the mode to firing his state into the circular of 16.

Ivory Coast imaginable starting lineup:

Fofana; Doue, Kossounou, O Diomande, Konan; Sangare; Diallo, Nessie, Oulai, Y Diomande; Pepe

Norway imaginable starting lineup:

Nyland; Ryerson, Ajer, Heggem, Moller Wolfe; Odegaard, Aursnes, Berge; Sorloth, Haaland, Nusa

We say: Ivory Coast 1-2 Norway

Ivory Coast person the attacking endowment successful Diomande and Pepe to endanger Norway, who person struggled to support cleanable sheets successful caller months.

However, Haaland's objective finishing and grounds of scoring much than erstwhile each crippled for the Vikings could spot him resistance his state done to the circular of 16 successful a constrictive win.

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