Colombia Beats Ivory Coast, Now In Great Position To Advance

Colombia holds on to beat Ivory Coast, 2-1. Colombia can now advance to the knockout round with a Japan win or draw vs. Greece.

Colombia takes on Ivory Coast in World Cup Group C play at 12 p.m. ET. We'll post all the updates here live.

Updates

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:55 PM

Colombia holds on to beat Ivory Coast, 2-1. Colombia can now advance to the knockout round with a Japan win or draw vs. Greece.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:53 PM

Late chance for Ivory Coast! But to no avail.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:52 PM

Ivory Coast player tries to pick Colombia's Cuadrado off the turf. We're now in injury time with Colombia still up 2-1.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:48 PM

Colombia clinging to a 2-1 lead late in the 2nd half.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:35 PM

Gervinho cuts the lead in half. Goal Ivory Coast. Now trailing 2-1.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:31 PM

Colombia scores again, up 2-0

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:30 PM

Colombia celebrates the first goal.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:24 PM

Goal Colombia! 1-0

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:20 PM

Drogba coming in.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:19 PM

Colombia hits the post!

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:17 PM

Wilfried Bony misses on an acrobatic attempt for Ivory Coast. Still all even, 0-0.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:16 PM

First yellow card of the match goes against Ivory Coast.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:14 PM

Juan Quintero coming in for Colombia.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:11 PM

Gervinho gets free but runs out of space and can't capitalize for Ivory Coast.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 17:06 PM

2nd half underway. No Didier Drogba yet for Ivory Coast (but it's only a matter of time).

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:50 PM

It's deadlocked at 0-0 at halftime of Ivory Coast vs. Colombia.

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:47 PM

Ivory Coast with a great scoring opportunity after a sloppy Colombia turnover. The Elephants' counterattacking has looked strong in the first half.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:42 PM

Colombia almost went up 1-0 on this wonderful chance in the box, but Gutierrez flubbed it. Ivory Coast very lucky to be all even 0-0.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:31 PM

Teofilo Gutierrez blows and unbelievably good chance for Colombia.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:27 PM

Colombia dominating ball control, but they can't break the Ivory Coast defense. 0-0.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:23 PM

Nearly halfway through the first half of Colombia vs. Ivory Coast. Still all square, 0-0.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:16 PM

A nice attack by Colombia, but Ivory Coast holds. Still even in the 14th minute.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:10 PM

Giant ball balloon finds its way onto the pitch. 0-0 early in the first half.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:05 PM

Didier Drogba not starting for Ivory Coast for the second straight match. He came off the bench vs. Greece and made a big impact. Expect to see him subbing in again today.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:03 PM

And we're off...

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 16:02 PM

Ivory Coast players and fans during their side's national anthem.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 15:51 PM

Ivory Coast beat Japan in their opening World Cup match, 2-1.

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

Ivory Coast's Gervinho celebrates with his teammate Didier Drogba after scoring their side's second goal vs. Japan.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 15:47 PM

Colombia defeated Greece in their opening World Cup match, 3-0.

AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Colombia's James Rodriguez (10) celebrates with his teammate Juan Zuniga after scoring his side's third goal vs. Greece.

Posted at Jun. 19, 2014, at 15:44 PM

Here are the starting line-ups for Ivory Coast and Colombia.