Gervinho, Yaya Toure and Didier Ya Konan made the day by each scoring against Tunisia at Rustenburg to get Ivory Coast to the quarter-finals.

However, during the 21st minute, the Ivoirians' were on top and opened a scoring through a corner kick by Gervinho, who side - footed his effort well into the back net to put the Elephants ahead.

The Eagle tried their best with shots, defense but it was quite a hard days job for them where THE Elephants took back the domination during the last 10 minutes of field play and Yaya Toure shot in another goal making it a 2 - 0 against Tunisia with eight minutes to full time.

Didier Ya Konan who came in at the late hour of the game for the Elephants of Ivory Coast, scored the third goal for the Elephants after a minor pass from Gervinho the goal opener for the match.

This takes the Elephant of Ivory Coast to a six point leading them to the quarter finals from their previous wins.

The match ended Ivory Coast 3 - 0 Tunisia .