00:24I like the way that Samuel Cotto is, you know, seeing these things.
00:27Seeing chances to thread the ball through.
00:35Bumo, picking the ball up, gets in front of his man.
00:37There's a nice little ball.
00:39Good chance for coming out!
00:40Oh, they've got the goal!
00:41They've got the opening goal!
00:43And it's a young!
00:48But the flag has gone up.
00:51And the excitement comes to an end abruptly for the Indomitable Lions.
00:59You can see that, well, there was a swift reaction.
01:03Let's just have a look at this again.
01:04Well, that is...
01:09This is going to go to VAR, I believe.
01:13Yep.
01:13That is, it looks like it's going to be given just from our thoughts initially.
01:18Yep.
01:19But the referee's saying, hold your horses, wait one moment.
01:22And there is the goal being given!
01:27You saw it!
01:28Didn't need VAR!
01:29No need for it!
01:30There are the celebrations!
01:32Didion Dong over to the right-hand side.
01:34It's been working quite well.
01:35There's the goal that's been scored there by Eta Yong.
01:39Oh, it is, again, unable to do anything with it.
01:42It goes out to the left-hand side.
01:44And Cameroon on the attack.
01:45There's a good running...
01:47There's some movement off the ball here for Cameroon as they try and thread the ball through.
01:51Doesn't happen.
01:52The idea was good there from Mbumo, but there was no one there to latch on to that.
01:56And it's Gabon up the other end, working their magic Openda.
01:59Openda over on the right-hand side.
02:01Come for an offside position, but managed to get himself on the right side of the last defender there.
02:06So Gabon's still in possession, still looking to try and get themselves an equalizer.
02:09Being put on the left foot.
02:11That's the shot!
02:11It's a rasping drive, and it just goes wide there from Denis Buanga.
02:15But why not give it a shot?
02:17It was set up perfectly.
02:19Yep, set up perfectly.
02:20He knows that he should have done well.
02:22He does everything right in terms of cutting inside on that left foot.
02:26Tries to go for the far post.
02:28Hopefully he misses the target.
02:29And for him, if he keeps persisting and keeps driving the ball, anything can happen.
02:34Anything can happen indeed.
02:37Well, just looking at some of the numbers about this clash here, of course.
02:41Cameroon, it's Cameroon, nine wins, and there have been six draws, three wins for Gabon, and 18 matches played.
02:50But the last four, it's been two wins for Gabon and a victory for Cameroon.
02:56And the last time that they battled it out, it was Golas in Libreville in 2017, and we all know what happened in that AFCON.
03:04It was all about the Lions, who managed to sharpen their claws rather than the Panthers, who didn't manage to sharpen their claws on home soil.
03:12Yeah, you have to take a scalp at some point.
03:18A little bit of contact there, as we can see on it, by Etta Young.
03:25Didier Dong, of course, a little bit of a getting tangled up.
03:32He plays for Estegal in Iran.
03:35And he's the only player, actually, in this Gabon team playing in Iran.
03:39Bukum, as well, in the midfield for Golgoha.
03:41They're moving forward.
03:42Danger lurking.
03:44And a little bit of a...
03:46A body hit there.
03:50Body blow as the ball comes out to Chamader.
03:52Chamader.
03:53Oh, it's a delightful pullback.
03:56You know, because he is one of the players who's really been solid throughout their stint, which has been a little bit up and down, of course, as we know.
04:05There's Cameroon pinching the ball in the midfield.
04:07How dangerous is he again?
04:09Daniel Namasso moving forward once again.
04:13And final pass not going to a Lion, but going to a Panther.
04:19Out wide.
04:20Junior Chamader.
04:21Stoke City man.
04:22Fries it in very quickly.
04:24Being picked up.
04:25Long range shot coming in.
04:26Oh, he's been punched away there by Luis Zimbabwe.
04:28That was the shot.
04:34Shot coming in from Namasso.
04:37Picked up by Mbubo down the right side again.
04:39Is Chamader.
04:41Dispossessed.
04:42And Mick gets the last touch.
04:43Frustrating.
04:44Get on the second ball because the goalkeeper really hasn't been convincing.
04:47If you parry that onto oncoming traffic, it can easily get punished.
04:51But it's also, you know, we're talking.
04:54And Stretcher coming on.
04:56I wonder if that's like a muscle injury.
05:00He's looking at his.
05:01It looks like it's a, well, the magic spray.
05:09A little bit of a limp.
05:10I wonder.
05:11I wonder if it's, uh, if he's going to be coming back on.
05:15If he's walking off, that's already a good thing.
05:17I don't like, never like those muscle injuries.
05:20You know, hamstring or, you know, anywhere around the thigh, of course.
05:24Back of the thigh.
05:29Dennis Boanga.
05:31Gabon, lots of movement into the penalty box.
05:35There's a chance at the far post.
05:37Well, just a fraction too late to try and get on the end of it.
05:42And, uh, Aubameyang was there.
05:47Oh.
05:49Poco trying to get up.
05:50It comes off the head.
05:51That should be a corner, in fact, as it came off the head of Koto.
05:58But it's, uh, deemed as a goal kick.
06:02And probably, uh, the last minute.
06:10Ballet by getting treatments still.
06:14And, uh, they won't make a decision on whether he will stay or will come off just yet.
06:20Delivery.
06:21A chance for a shot.
06:23Bawanga gets up.
06:26Deflection falls towards Lamina, but it's not connected with.
06:32And Gabon pick it up at the back.
06:33Need to move quickly.
06:41And as we're approaching 48 minutes.
06:45Here's another delivery into the penalty box.
06:48Goes over.
06:48Snatched out of the sky.
06:50Confidently there by Rogier Pasi.
06:55That was the chance.
06:56Aubameyang just allowing it to fall.
06:59The block there coming in from Chamadour was just sterling.
07:04Well-timed.
07:08Intense.
07:10Very intense.
07:20110th cat.
07:24There's the, uh, free kick.
07:26Cleared.
07:27And Bobo with a touch.
07:28Great opportunity here.
07:29Goal number two doesn't come for Junior Chamadour.
07:33Very cool player at the back.
07:45Bruno Okwilemanga.
07:48That's a good ball over to the left-hand side.
07:50Kept in, but, uh, I don't think he realized that he could actually get to it, Dennis Boanga.
07:59And the ball passed back to his goalkeeper.
08:03I think it's the, the longest lull in activity that we've actually had in this game.
08:19Um, as, but it's going to come to an end, of course.
08:22And Boomer picks it up.
08:23Just in front.
08:23Puts it on his left foot.
08:24It's a great shot.
08:25And it's pushed away there by Ibaba.
08:28It's from the Manchester City man.
08:30He puts it on his left foot.
08:31Trying to curl it around.
08:35He's in Morocco, of course, uh, watching Algeria because his son, Luca, is the goalkeeper, of course, for the Algerian national team.
08:43That's where he's, uh, he's decided to call this a great opportunity.
08:46This is picked up here.
08:47And the ball comes over.
08:49There's players galore.
08:50Aubameyang gets the ball out to the right-hand side.
08:52There's the shot.
08:53It's been pulled across.
08:54Too many Cameron defenders back in position.
08:56Needed to go for the earlier shot.
08:58Didn't manage to do so.
08:59Oh, you know, picks it up at the back.
09:00Good chance for Gabon.
09:04And once again, they make those final third entries.
09:07But it's just the decisiveness.
09:09It's making the right decision in that final third.
09:11Oh, Penda's gone for a run.
09:13And it's a beautiful run.
09:14Oh, it's a great save there from Epassi.
09:17Excellent reading of the wall.
09:19Just look at this again.
09:19Yeah, this time around, Gabon managed to break that midfield.
09:27A good ball behind the defenders.
09:30You know, Penda, who else?
09:31But to run on to it, Epassi also standing his ground.
09:35Makes a brilliant save.
09:36Epassi also standing his ground.
09:39Makes a brilliant save.
09:42Jim Alavino coming on to replace Royce.
09:46Plays for Toulouse and Lee Garner.
09:49Boomer with the corner.
09:53Perfectly delivered off the post.
09:55Off the crossbar and out.
09:57Magri.
09:58Let's have a look at this again.
10:00Look at Magri.
10:01He's going to get up for that.
10:03It comes.
10:03He heads it down.
10:04It comes off.
10:05It comes off.
10:06Equale.
10:07Manga.
10:15It doesn't.
10:16It actually echoes.
10:18Another corner.
10:19Boomeru never heads her as well.
10:23Crikey.
10:23Magri has just been making his mark since he came on.
10:25That's two direct headers.
10:27They've got to really, you know, now's the time to say, guys, why has he been given so much time and space to do that?
10:32He's just finding, because he's such a typical striker, any little bit of space in the box, he knows how to use a light, utilize it.
10:41He just keeps jumping behind Oyono.
10:43That was the second corner.
10:44Getting in the way.
10:45Yep.
10:45And that is it.
10:47They have managed to take the points.
10:50They walk away empty-handed on this occasion.
10:52Gabon, Cameroon celebrates.
10:53And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
10:59And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:01And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:03And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:05And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:07And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:09And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:11And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:13And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:15And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
11:17And they celebrate with a hard-fought battle against their Central African neighbors.
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