Very few football observers anticipated Cameroon to shine for the CAF Africa Cup involving Nations, currently taking place throughout Gabon, due to the numerous absences the former continental champions have gotten to contend with. To make matters worse for that Indomitable Lions, they found themselves in a very challenging group, one that featured this host nation, 2013 finalists Burkina Faso as well as surprising outsiders Guinea-Bissau.
Despite the Cameroonian support generally holding a pessimistic outlook before tournament, Benjamin Moukandjo and his young team-mates advanced on the quarter-finals courtesy of any 1-1 draw with Burkina Faso, a 2-1 win over Guinea-Bissau as well as a 0-0 stalemate versus Gabon. Those results saw them finish second in Party A, one place ahead from the hosts, who were duly removed.
The man who orchestrated this kind of success, Cameroon’s Belgian coach, Hugo Broos, spoke to MMO4PAL. com about his charges’ run to the last eight. “I’m very happy with what we’ve achieved so far at the Cup of Fifa Points Account Nations, as our group-stage matches were tricky, ” he said. “When you look at teams like C? te d'Ivoire, Algeria and Gabon going out, you have to be pretty satisfied with how we’ve done. ”
Cameroon did play with fire somewhat towards the end of these match with Gabon, when their opponents struck the left-hand post of Fabrice Ondoa’s goal after which almost scored on the rebound, making Broos and his staff break out in a cold sweat around the bench.
“I never had virtually any doubt about our ability to qualify for the groups, but when the baseball hits the post prefer that, anything can happen, ” explained the 64-year-old. “Our keeper then saved us again. We were lucky not to ever concede a goal, and that would are us out. Generally speaking, though, we created a good few chances inside the match and we deserved to qualify following way we performed to all three games. ”
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