00:00Praia.
00:07As you'd expect, a warm welcome for the players.
00:10Not quite a full house here, the stadium.
00:14They are at least providing a bit of wind
00:16to take the edge off the humidity as Rwanda
00:18get us underway then here at the Estadio Nacional de Quebe Verde.
00:23Rwanda the away side, kicking from left to right in the first half.
00:30Space on this near side.
00:35Tackle comes in just outside the D
00:37and the referee takes his time and eventually blows his whistle.
00:43The challenge on Santos.
00:45Just driving in from the left.
00:49Caught by a stray leg.
00:56Actually...
00:56This time, oh, great strike and that's not missed by much
00:59from Lopez Cabral.
01:03A bit of frustration there.
01:06Flighted it beautifully over the wall.
01:13Did their best to jump as well.
01:18Mendes went down expecting a free kick.
01:21Looked up, got nothing.
01:21But they got the wall back here again.
01:23Cape Verde and now the shot comes in
01:24and that's bouncing wickedly just in front of the keeper.
01:29Oh, can you?
01:31With the shot as the keeper actually collided with the post there, I wonder.
01:36When he was holding his head, now he's holding his shoulder.
01:38I don't think he's quite sure.
01:44A little bit of frustration.
01:47The home players.
01:53Another look at the shot here.
01:55It's a wicked bounce right in front of the keeper.
01:57Did well to avoid it.
01:58But he's just bumped into the wall over the top.
02:02Straight through here.
02:03It's Benjamal.
02:04It's just a little bit late taking the touch there.
02:06Allowed.
02:07And Natuari to come off his line.
02:14Another cross comes in again.
02:15Too much on it.
02:16It's going to be picked up by Santos on this near side, is it?
02:19It's a nice little run in behind as well.
02:21It's really opening up here.
02:22Oh, and the ball goes in between the two players.
02:27He then smashed clear from the D.
02:34Santos winning a free kick here on this near side as he tried to win the bouncing ball.
02:48Maybe an opportunity, but lovely interception from Borges.
02:52Tavares.
02:57And Magisha with an untidy challenge on Tavares.
03:04And, well, a second yellow card in as many games.
03:08With Bonner Magisha at the back.
03:10White shirts flooding into the area.
03:11Benjamal making the run.
03:13And Santos at the back post.
03:25Well.
03:28The game just stretching for a moment.
03:30And that allowed.
03:33Cabo Vert.
03:34To get him behind.
03:37Santos trying to claim a penalty there, but never getting anything on that.
03:40The teasing ball from Mendes.
03:45We just shinned it.
03:46Santos ball wouldn't come down quickly enough for him.
03:54All as much as possible.
03:55Instead, though, going down the right-hand side instead.
03:59Is there a foul over there?
04:00Yes, says the referee.
04:03To Tavares.
04:05Just give it a little shove.
04:15This one left-footed.
04:18Whips it in.
04:19Lopez Cabral headed up rather than away.
04:23Missed on the first bounce.
04:25Now controlled by Benjamal.
04:28Benjamal.
04:29Then he loses control of the ball.
04:31And eventually it is smashed clear.
04:32And there could be an opportunity on the counter-attack here for Xenia.
04:37Taking absolutely no chances this time.
04:41A round with a free kick.
04:4211 minutes to go in this first half.
04:44Plus a bit of stoppages as well.
04:46But Zinzi.
04:48With the stripe.
04:49That one just floats over the crossbar.
04:53Oh, no.
04:55Rain is...
04:55Rain is really whipping through now.
04:57It shouldn't last too long, supposedly.
05:08Piering Giro.
05:09Plays the ball inside.
05:10Magisha.
05:12Big splash of water as the...
05:15As the header came in from, what, quite close to penalty spot.
05:18Actually.
05:20From Rwanda.
05:21But now.
05:22Coming forwards.
05:24Still coming forwards as Mendes.
05:26Puts a ball across.
05:26Goal.
05:27Easy tap in.
05:28For Gilson Benjamal.
05:30And finally Cabo Ver.
05:33Break open.
05:35This Rwandan defence.
05:43There you can see.
05:44What it means to the home fans.
05:49First goal of qualifying.
05:51For Gilson Benjamal.
05:53In the pouring rain here in Pryor.
06:21Oh, Mendes allowed to go all the way to the byline.
06:26He got behind the full-back.
06:28No one really came across to cover.
06:30The 36-year-old Abel.
06:33To look up.
06:34Pick his cross.
06:35They were queuing up in the six-yard box.
06:37Three of them.
06:40Gilson Benjamal.
06:42Is he going to take this one?
06:47The players wanted to take it quickly.
06:49Mickles.
06:50Receives it short.
06:52Not the best of passes out.
06:53Now the shot comes from distance.
06:54Oh!
06:54It's a great strike.
06:57Ball picked up on the edge of the area.
07:00And Claude.
07:02Neil Mugabe.
07:05Striking it low and hard.
07:09And really out of nothing.
07:11They've done nothing in this first half.
07:13Of Rwanda.
07:14But they're back on level terms.
07:17It just goes to show.
07:20You can dominate all you want.
07:21You don't score the goals.
07:22It only takes one moment.
07:26And the opposition back on level terms.
07:28The corner taken short.
07:31Chester down on the edge of the area.
07:34What a strike.
07:34Low hard.
07:36Not sure Vizzini could do much about that.
07:41That zipped along the wet surface.
07:46A little bit slow reacting to the short corner by the way.
07:49I think.
07:50Gabo Verne.
07:54Beaten for the Rwandan right back.
07:56Who by the way is actually a free agent at the moment.
08:02Strike like that might hasten a couple of calls to his voicemail.
08:08Until half-time here then in the Stadion National de Kéber.
08:13There she is.
08:19There comes a Erede Kunda Elie Tatu.
08:25Forced back to Arcania.
08:28Goes to the back post.
08:29The keeper comes for it and misses it completely.
08:32Well, that won't
08:36Exactly give the Rwandan defenders a lot of confidence there
08:42They floaty ball in
08:44I tell you, I think Santos might have had a good chance there
08:49Santos, who's trying to make room for the shot
08:53Eventually gets a free kick
08:55Sorry, beg your pardon, that was Tavares
09:02I think Sidney Lopez Cabral is going to pop over and take this
09:06Mickles
09:08Lays the ball out to his brother
09:11Ball comes back in towards Mickles
09:13And at the far post
09:14And Rwanda in the lead
09:19And it's Tatu the substitute
09:26Silence in the stands
09:28I mean, Rwanda have only had two chances the whole game, really
09:31And they're 2-1 up
09:43Oh, Vizinha pulls the double teapot
09:49Steven Konstantin
09:50He's going to be absolutely delighted on the Rwandan bench
09:53Leroy Mickles
09:56To Joy Lance
10:00Getting there just ahead of Dini Borges
10:04Lovely little ball missed at the near post by Leroy
10:09Tatu popping up at the back post
10:11Making no mistake from close range
10:16And Rwanda
10:18Remarkably here
10:19With a 2-1 lead
10:24Free kick
10:25Taken quickly over there
10:27And so López Cabral in trouble
10:29As well to a sort of semi-hold off the run of Magisha
10:47This time the free kick goes against Rwanda
10:49There might be a yellow card being brandished as well
10:53And so Leroy Mickles goes over to have a chat
11:06Pushed away by his captain
11:19It's getting a little bit physical out there now
11:21And now the referee brandishing another yellow card
11:24This time for Anger Mutsensi
11:33Players really are two-footed like this
11:36A big knot of white shirts to Wemack
11:39Goes for the back post
11:40Too close to the goalkeeper though
11:42Who collides with
11:45Dini Borges
12:00To break down this Rwandan backlight
12:03There is Mendes just keeping the ball in
12:06Doing well to win a throw-in over on this near side
12:09Down by the corner flag
12:12Needs this one for Pina
12:18Does well to wrap his foot round the cross
12:22And the foul
12:24Goes against Cabo Verde in the middle
12:38Cabo Verde having to
12:40Push higher at the pitch
12:42Here Benjamal making an absolute nuisance of himself there
12:44The ball eventually
12:48Goes Rwanda's way
12:49The referee blowing his whistle
12:53It's been taken quickly
13:11Just getting in each other's way a bit there
13:22Well, well won this time by Pina
13:24Appeals for a free kick
13:25Waved away by the referee
13:26Livramento now
13:28Puts one into the back post
13:29Towards Benjamal
13:33Well, Benjamal had his eye on the ball
13:35The keeper's come out and clattered into him
13:38He's going to stay down for a while
13:50Looks like Benjamal wants
13:53Some TLC from the medic as well
13:57Well, he's pulled his foot out
13:59The offside flag was up anyway
14:03Iron the ball
14:04Iron the ball
14:04Suddenly sees the keeper
14:05Pulls his leg out of the way
14:10Oh, they can't give the ball away like that
14:12That's for certain
14:13And all of a sudden
14:13There's a four on three here for Rwanda
14:16Pace being added here by Emmerum
14:19Emmerum with the ball in
14:20But just too close to Virginia
14:22There were two men waiting for it
14:23Dreaming for it
14:24Over on the right-hand side
14:25Rodriguez instead
14:26Overtouches it
14:28Wins himself somehow a free kick
14:30Right on the edge of the area too
14:49Really wasn't in control of the ball there
14:51Rodriguez
14:52But he gets fortunate with winning the free kick
14:55And
14:57Well, no surprise to see Lopez Cabral
14:59Sniffing around by this one
15:00Hitting over this one
15:02You'd think it suits a left footer
15:04Wouldn't you
15:04Into that top right-hand corner
15:06Mind you, a right footer
15:07Could go around the wall as well
15:08Maybe
15:09The keeper edging over to the left as well
15:16I think Rodriguez
15:17Is definitely going to take this one
15:19And it's always going too high
15:29Oh, he's not going to win an Oscar, is he?
15:41Rodriguez now on the right
15:42He's got white shirts
15:43Twaymat in the middle
15:44And it's gone in
15:45To just outside the penalty spot
15:48Still no room for the shot
15:49Heroic blocks coming in
15:50From the Rwandan defenders
15:52Claims for a penalty not given
15:53There should be a corner though
16:03We've got a Rwandan player down
16:06Unsurprisingly
16:17Rodriguez just getting a yard on his man
16:19Good cutback
16:20The initial shot blocked
16:25The initial shot blocked
16:29The wall coming in here
16:31The initial shot blocked on the turn
16:34And just do well to lay it off there
16:36Another shot comes in
16:37Looks like it came off the arm
16:41Got to get it over the head
16:42Of Busymana
16:45He's a good height on it
16:46He's a good height on it
16:47Comes in towards Fizzino
16:47In fact, he managed to get in the way
16:49Of his own teammate
16:50And now the long ball
16:52Hit clear
16:52There's going to be a foot race
16:53Coming back here
16:54It looks like
16:56Pina is going to get there first
16:59He's got no choice but to smash
17:00Crowded out there
17:01And the referee blows his whistle
17:32The Cabo Verde players
17:33And now the Blue Cup of Nations
17:35They're going to be good
17:36You can see the frustration from the players
17:37They're going to be good
17:39But to be honest, did they play well enough to get better than that?
17:42from the game.
17:44Stephen Constantine goes over to say
17:47hello to Vizinha.
17:49Say Rwanda,
17:50certainly their opening goal
17:51against the run of play,
17:52but in the second half,
17:53Kabeau Vert simply not
17:57really offering any threat.
18:01Tatou
18:03with the finish to make it to
18:05one in the 52nd minute.
18:06After that, though,
18:08I mean, the Tuareg,
18:09I mean, was busy,
18:10but he didn't make any outstanding saves.
18:12Or he just wasn't really forced into it.
18:16The blue.
