(Reuters) - Ivory Coast ⁠striker Nicolas Pepe has won a recall ⁠to the national squad after injury ‌ruled out teenage striker Yann Diomande from this month’s World Cup warm-up matches.

Pepe had been left out of the ​initial squad for friendlies against ⁠South Korea in ⁠Milton Keynes, England on Saturday and Scotland in Liverpool ⁠on ‌March 31.