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CAMEROON vs SAUDI ARABIA

Match Report below

Match Stats: -

Man of the Match: Nawaf Al-Temyat (Saudi Arabia)

Teams: 

Cameroon: 
                    1-Boukar Alioum 
                    2-Bill Tchato 
                    3-Pierre Wome (6-Pierre Njanka 84) 
                    4-Rigobert Song
                    5-Raymond Kalla
                    8-Geremi 
                  12-Lauren 
                  17-Marc-Vivien Foe 
                  23-Daniel Ngom Kome (20-Salomen Olembe 46) 
                    9-Samuel Eto'o 
                  10-Patrick Mboma (11-Pius Ndiefi 74)

Saudi Arabia:
                    1-Mohammed Al-Deayea 
                    2-Mohammed Al Jahani 
                    3-Redha Tukar 
                    4-Abdullah Sulaiman (15-Abdullah Jumaan 72) 
                    6-Fouzi Al-Shehri 
                  13-Hussein Sulimani 
                    7-Ibrahim Al-Shahrani 
                  14-Abdulaziz Al-Khathran
                  17-Abdallah Al-Waked 
                  18-Nawaf Al-Temyat 
                  11-Obeid Al-Dossary (20-Al-Hassan Al-Yami 35)

Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)
Linesmen: Roland Van Nylen (Belgium) Maciej Wierzbowski (Poland)

Match Report: -

   Saudi Arabia can think themselves unlucky after they showed a completely different style of play to what they showed against Germany. They attacked with fluency and most attacks were formed from their playmaker Al-Temyat. He commanded the midfield throughout.
   It needed 65 minutes for the Cameroon breakthrough and they did so from a long ball from Geremi. His long ball found Eto'o in the centre and he slid the ball past the keeper. Saudi Arabia had the most chances in the match and the Cameroon coach was extremely frustrated as he went into the changing rooms at half time fuming. He was annoyed at how Germany managed to score 8 past them and they had yet to score.
  Cameroon were quick out the blocks to score though, as the halftime team talk must have boosted the players. All credit to Saudi Arabia though as they piled forward with some great passing styles but were unable to breakthrough the African defence.