Cameroon wary of giant-killing Gambia and another Afcon shock

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Hosts Cameroon will go into the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals wary of an ignominious exit as they take on giant-killers Gambia in the first of the weekend’s matches.

Cameroon have been far from convincing as they have advanced through the group stages and one round of knockout matches while lowly ranked Gambia have thrilled with their attacking approach and improbable run to the last eight of the tournament.

Cameroon, in contrast, have turned in largely mediocre performances andalthough they had all the odds heavily stacked in their favour in their last game against the other tournament debutants, Comoros Islands, they laboured through to the quarter-finals in a controversial 2-1 victory. He needs a goal to equal SA’s Benni McCarthy and Egyptian Hossam Hassan’s second-most goals in a single tournament, both with seven in 1998. With matches left, if Cameroon remain to the final Aboubakar may even have a chance of reaching the top mark of nine goals set by Ndaye Mulamba of Zaire in 1974.

 

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