MUNICH, Germany (AP):

BONAVENTURE KALOU scored the winning goal from the penalty spot in the 86th minute yesterday to give Ivory Coast a 3-2 win over Serbia-Montenegro.

Both teams had already been eliminated from the tournament.

Aruna Dindane scored the other two goals for the Elephants, one from the penalty spot.

"This World Cup victory was very important for us," Dindane said. "We were unlucky in this tournament in the first two games and this is like a small remedy for all our misfortunes."

Nikola Zigic and Sasa Ilic scored for Serbia-Montenegro, and Milan Dudic gave away both penalties with handballs.

"I was just a little bit nervous for what people would think about me and Ivory Coast," Kalou said. "I knew if I missed this penalty that was going to be terrible for me, but as a soccer player you have to take risks and that was another one."

FIRST PENALTY

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

Normally defensive-minded Serbia-Montenegro opened the game against the potent Ivory Coast attack with only one forward in Zigic, and that was enough to grab a 1-0 lead in the 10th minute.

Zigic made the goal look easy after Dejan Stankovic spotted the tall forward on a run up the middle and hit him with a bending 35-metre pass. Zigic easily cut inside defender Blaise Kouassi, sidestepped goalkeeper Boubacar Barry and skidded the ball into the open net.

Barry, making his World Cup debut, is normally a backup. Kouassi also was a new insert in the starting line-up by coach Henri Michel, who had switched out half of his back line from the previous game against the Netherlands.

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. Yet the Blues would need only 10 minutes to score again.

They exploited yet another blunder by an Ivory Coast back line that was plagued by costly mistakes throughout the tournament, no matter who was playing.

MISPLAYED

Cyrille Domoraud, another new insert in the Ivory Coast line-up, badly misplayed a long free kick in front of his own net. Ilic was right there to pick up the gift, beat Barry and score easily while opposing defenders flailed their arms and shouted at one another.

It marked the third time in three games that Ivory Coast had found themselves trying to climb out of a 2-0 first-half deficit.