The Indomitable lions of Cameroon will face hosts Ghana in the semi-final stage on Thursday after the Lions’ extra-time finish from Stephane Mbia knocked out the Tunisians.
The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon started the last quarter final match on a good note making their intentions clear that despite their disappointing performance in the early stages of the tournament they worth watching.
They fetched the first goal which was quickly followed by another one from Njitap.
The Tunisians did not sit back and their effort paid when they pushed one goal through.
The Cameroonian side were ruled off when they lost uncharacteristically by four goals to two in their encounter with to Egypt.
Cameroon suffered a nervy moment in the 71st minute when a free kick nealy fetched the equalizer for the Tunisians.
In the 81st minute the resilience of the Tunisians paid off but not without the help of the sluggish defence of the Cameroonians.
Tunisia got the equalizer dawning the possibility of extra time on both sides.
The extra time finally arrived.
The unimpressive performance of the Cameroonians at a certain stage of the game led to that situation.
Stefan Mbia brought Cameroon back into the game 2 minutes into the first half of extra time with a cracker of a goal.
An Eto’o generated free-kick seven minutes to the end of proceedings was given a bad header that launched the ball far off the Tunisian goal post.
Few screeches across the face of Cameroon's goal area could not yield any result as there was nobody to get a foot, shoulder or head on it. The Indomitable Lions indeed remained indomitable throughout this time.
With just three and half minutes to go a bad tackle of a Cameroonian never attracted the whistle of the referee, “play on,” he signaled.
A strong Tunisian incursion into the Cameroonian goal area 30 seconds remaining was rather intercepted, dashing the hope of the North Africans.
The Cameroonians meet Ghana on Thursday.
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