With his experience as a player, will coach Rigobert Song find the means and the right approach to avoid repeating the poor performance of the Indomitable Lions against Switzerland with a 1-0 defeat? Cameroon will play their 25th World Cup match against Serbia on Monday, November 28th.
From our Special Envoy for Qatar,
Cameroon, heroes of the 1990 edition, with a first quarter-finals for an African selection, have won just one World Cup game in five editions since, 2002: 1-0 against Saudi Arabia, through a goal by Samuel Eto’o.
We are waiting for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
Since then, the country has deluded itself every time it took part, but returned home empty-handed and frustrated. ” The last victory for Cameroon is certainly far away, the only promise we can make is to do our best “, however, midfielder Samuel Oum Gouet had announced before the clash against the Swiss.
A few days before the start of the tournament, Cameroon had been held in check in a friendly against Panama. Cameroon striker Éric Maxim Choupo-Moting opened the scoring in the 48th minute, cementing his side’s dominance. Then the Panamanian Michael Murillo equalized with a free kick in this controversial encounter in the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium (55th).
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting was unable to make a decisive difference against the Swiss and was even released in favor of Vincent Aboubakar in the second half. Rigobert Song justified this choice at a press conference and announced that he wanted this maintain » the former resident of Paris Saint-Germain, who had a very good start to the season with Bayern Munich. He is now expected against Serbia.
Switzerland, just an incident?
If the lions perform poorly again, the critics will not be long in coming. The extraordinary statements made by President Samuel Eto’o, who is now at the helm of the association, have left ex-goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell immensely angry.
” I don’t understand why we couldn’t win it (the World Cup),” said Eto’o, predicting a final against Morocco. ” It may be a new way for the little ones to talk about them, they will have won the World Cup of Explanations… ‘ replied AFP Bell, 68, who has 70 caps and won two Africa Cup of Nations. Captain Vincent Aboubakar, he assured Cameroon ” nothing to envy in Brazil “.
After qualifying for the World Cup in a historic double against Algeria, Cameroon wants to show that Switzerland was just an incident on this course in Qatar.
