MUNICH: Bonaventure Kalou scored the winning goal from the penalty spot in the 86th minute on Wednesday to give Ivory Coast a 3-2 win over Serbia-Montenegro. Both teams had already been eliminated.

Aruna Dindane scored the other two goals for the Ivory Coast, one from the penalty spot. Nikola Zigic and Sasa Ilic scored for Serbia-Montenegro, and Milan Dudic gave away both penalties with handballs.

It was the first time Serbia-Montenegro had scored in the World Cup after losing 1-0 to the Netherlands and 6-0 to Argentina.

Ivory Coast was trailing 2-0 when Dindane scored the first penalty in the 37th minute. He then added another with a header in the 67th minute to equalise.

The Elephants’ striker Didier Drogba was suspended for receiving yellow cards

in each of his first two games. In the 35th minute, Dudic was caught senselessly punching out an Ivory Coast cross into the penalty area, giving the Elephants a penalty shot.

Dindane slid the penalty shot inside right post. Serbia Montenegro had to play the second half a man down after Albert Nadj, who had only come in in the 16th minute to replace injured Mladen Krstajic, received his second yellow card following a hard tackle on Kader Keita at the end of the first half. — AP