The Cameroon team started everything from minute 1 of the game, when Vincent Aboubakar entered the area and requested the Panamanian goalkeeper Orlando Mosquera, who cleared the danger with his legs.
Three minutes later Aboubakar finished from distance, but his shot went wide of the Panamanian team’s goal. The Cameroonian team stepped on the accelerator in the first fifteen minutes of the game against a Central American team that withstood the quick attacks of the Africans.
The Panamanians’ first shot on goal came in the 21st minute, when Adalberto Carrasquilla shot from long range, but it went wide. The clearest of the first half came in the 24th minute, when a header from Nicolas Nkoulou passed close to the Panama mark.
In the 34th minute, Aboubakar missed a chance to open the scoring: Mbomou crossed, but the Cameroonian striker could not connect with the ball. Carrasquilla tried again in minute 37 from long distance, Onana flew and sent the shot to the corner kick.
The Panamanians shut down the attack in the first half, when in the 43rd minute Ismael Díaz made a steal and passed to César Yanis, who finished, but Onana saved his goal and kept the score 0-0. The second half began with a Panama team looking for a surprise.
In the 46th minute, César Yanis stole the ball and passed it to Ismael Díaz, but the Panamanian striker’s shot hit the crossbar and went over the end line, wasting a clear chance to open the scoring. A minute later, new player Eric Choupo-Moting received the ball, finished, covered by Mosquera, Choupo-Moting himself took the rebound and sent it into the end of the goal to make it 1-0 on the scoreboard .
In the fight for the goal, the Panamanians did not stop attacking and it paid off in the 55th minute, with a free kick by Michael Amir Murillo, who with an impeccable recovery from his right foot put the score at 1-1 . The Central Americans, in the 62nd minute, had to extend the score, with a cross from Murillo, headed by Christian Martínez, Onana had another flight to save his goal.
The last danger of the game was for the African team, with a cross from Kounde, headed by Choupo-Moting, but his shot hit the post of the Panamanian goal. After 90 minutes, including four extra minutes, the referee ended the rivalry, ending the Panamanian tour and leaving the Cameroon team ready for their World Cup debut, next Thursday against their Swiss counterparts.
Source: La Verdad
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