Cameroon needs too many chances against Guinea-Bissau | Sports | '
With a deserved 2-0 (0-0) win, defending champion Cameroon has started in the Africa Cup. Yaya Banana scored the first goal after a good hour (66th minute). Shortly thereafter Stephane Bahoken was on the spot and increased to 2: 0. Cameroon was the better team, had plenty of good chances, but failed again and again at Guinea Bissau's best, goalkeeper Jonas Mendes.
Uncommon Usedom of the "Lions"
Cameroon, captained by former Mainz-based Schalke player Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, took the initiative in front of largely empty ranks from the outset and, after just under seven minutes of play by Christian Bassogog, scored the first opportunity. But the striker, who plays for Henan Jianye in the Chinese Super League, aimed a little too high from full speed. Guinea-Bissau was closer to the first goal just minutes later when Mamadu Tunkara Pelé, who is on contract with AS Monaco, narrowly missed the Cameroonian goal by a few inches (12 '). Cameroon defender Michael Ngadeu Ngadjui also had a good chance, but his header after a corner was easy prey to the Guinea-Bissau goalkeeper (21 ').
After half an hour it was again Bassogog who hammered the ball from the edge of the box into the evening sky, instead of shooting it into the empty goal. Cameroon's "untamable lions", coached by former Dutch world-class player Clarence Seedorf, were now on the trigger and had a good chance (36 ') with a Dawa Tchakonte header. Very close to the opening goal was Tchakontes team-mate Karl Toko Ekambi, who put the ball just before the break just centimeters off the post (45th). Despite the clear chance overweight for the defending champions, it was scoreless in the half-time break.
With a double strike to victory
Immediately after the break, Choupo-Moting tested Guinea-Bissau's goalkeeper Jonas Mendes with a twisted low shot from 17 meters. But Mendes dived and steered the ball around the far post. Maverick Guinea-Bissau, who was only in the Africa Cup for the second time after 2017, rarely scored in front of the opponent's goal and if they were dangerous with long shots. In the 63rd minute, Sori Mané fired a shot from about 20 meters, which just barely crossed the crossbar.
Finally, however, sat the favorite by: First Banana scored with a header-Aufsetzer after a corner the 1-0 (66th). Only a short time after the newly substitute Bahoken Mendes overcame a second time. The striker of the French first division Angers was actually offside, but since the ball from a guinea-Bissau defender came to him, the game continued and Bahoken pushed the leather from a few meters goal under Mendes through the net (69).
Guinea-Bissau did not make it back to their own goal but was unlucky in the 74th minute when Piqueti Djassi hit a header to hit the post. In injury time, center-back Juary Soares gave another good chance after a corner from close range – it was the last for Guinea-Bissau.
Benin won one point against Ghana
Benin's doublescorer Mickael Poté (l.)
Unlike the likes Cameroon had to face a small setback with Ghana in the second match of the first round group F to start a small setback: The "Black Stars" came against Benin not a 2: 2 (2-1) out. Decisive for the point win of the Benin was doublescorer Mickael Poté, who played from 2011 to 2014 for Dynamo Dresden. The brawny striker initially scored the early lead (2), which equalized Ghana star players André Ayew a little later (9). Shortly before the break, Ayew's younger brother Jordan Ayew increased to 2-1 (42 ').
But the tide turned again after Ghana's John Boye saw the yellow card in the 54th minute and had to leave the field. Ten minutes later, Poté was back on the pitch, scoring the 2-2 draw (63rd). With Kasim Adams of the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim played for Ghana a professional from the Bundesliga. In addition, opponent Benin was with Cebio Soukou, who grew up in Bochum and changed a few days ago from third division Hansa Rostock to Arminia Bielefeld in the second league, another player from Germany on the court. Soukou belonged to the starting eleven and was replaced after 83 minutes.
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