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Cameroon celebrate their first Africa Cup of Nations victory for seven years while the next to Guinea-Bissau players despair at a missed opportunity for a famous upset.
Cameroon celebrate their first Africa Cup of Nations victory for seven years while the Guinea-Bissau players despair at a missed opportunity for a famous upset. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
Cameroon celebrate their first Africa Cup of Nations victory for seven years while the Guinea-Bissau players despair at a missed opportunity for a famous upset. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

Afcon 2017: Cameroon comeback win cuts Guinea-Bissau down to size

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Cameroon 2-1 Guinea-Bissau
Siani 61, Ngadeu-Ngadjui 78; Brito Silva 13

Cameroon survived a scare and a wonder goal from the Africa Cup of Nations debutants Guinea-Bissau to take command of Group A.

The Indomitable Lions came from behind to win 2-1, but for 48 minutes Guinea-Bissau were ahead and heading for a special victory after Piqueti made a run of blistering speed and skill to take the ball nearly the length of the field and lash it into the roof of the net.

Cameroon spoiled what was shaping up to be one of the great upsets in the tournament’s history when Sébastien Siani hit a first-time shot into the bottom left corner and the defender Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui hammered low into the other corner for the winner.

That left the Guinea-Bissau goalkeeper Jonas hunched over the advertising boards behind his goal in disappointment, thinking of what might have been for a team made up mostly of players from Portugal’s second division and which had never been to a major tournament before.

For a while, they were beating the four-times African champions and former World Cup quarter-finalists, and were top of their group.

Guinea-Bissau play Burkina Faso in their final group game while Cameroon play the hosts, Gabon, whose 1-1 draw with Burkina Faso earlier on Wednesday left them struggling to reach the quarter-finals.

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