Cameroon Beat Algeria to Secure World Cup Spot

It was a sensational Tuesday night in Algiers with the host playing at the mythical Blida stadium that has not recorded defeat.

The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon playing with one goal deficit certainly were aware of the impending danger of not qualifying for Qarar 2022 after missing out in 2018.

From the 4-3-3 formation in the away game last Friday, the head coach Rigobert Song decided to change tactics to 4-4-2 starting the game with Choupo Moting and Karl Toko Ekambi.

Moting’s opener would give Cameroon hope with a 1-1 aggregate but Algeria will later score to lead at 30 minutes additional time.

But a late goal from Toko Ekambi pushed Cameroon to grab the last ticket for Qatar 2022. The Desert Foxes who are just from crashing out of the AFCON crashed out of hopes to take the Qatar flight.

Cameroon from Central Africa joins Morocco and Tunisia from North Africa, Ghana, and Senegal from West Africa.

Eto’o and Song

The country’s football federation’s president Samuel Eto’o on whose shoulders laid huge responsibility together with a new head coach, Rigobert Song Bahanag, are certainly the two men to go home with a sigh of relief. The two came under pressure after Algeria’s away one-nil victory.

While some Cameroonians blame Eto’o for sacking the former Coach, Antonio Conceicao, others said Song’s CV does not give him the pedigree to manage the senior national team.

But Song has held strong to his dictum, “It is only when you know that you are in danger that you are no more in danger, but when you do not know that you are in danger, you are in real danger”