Things haven’t gone the Cameroon team’s way in the 2014 World Cup
tournament. They came in to Wednesday’s game against Croatia fighting
for their World Cup lives.
Both teams came in with zero points and who ever would lose the game would get eliminated from the tournament and the winner would have a fighting chance. An early goal gave the momentum to Croatia. When Cameroon’s Alex Song elbowed Mario Mandzukic in the back late in the first half and got a red card, the momentum really swung.
The second half was just the Cameroon side weathering Croatian attack
after Croatian attack. The Croatian side added three more goals in the
second half, two of which came from Mandzukic, to take a commanding
lead.
The Cameroon team was visibly frustrated and began fighting with one
another. At one point Benoît Assou-Ekotto head butted his teammate,
Benjamin Moukandjo, and they had to be separated. The announcers pointed
out you can get a red card for head butting a teamamte.
"It's clear we have to find the reasons what's going on because such behaviour is really disgusting, it won't do, it's impossible," Cameroon coach Volker Finke said.
"A result like this is a shame for Cameroon. I think until the red card it was a little bit of a match (when both teams played) at the same level, perhaps the Croatians were more efficient but Cameroon also had good some chances," he said.
"We have to sleep and do an analysis and then we can announce something," he added, apparently referring to possible disciplinary measures after the unsavoury scenes. "There will be consequences stemming from this."
Both teams came in with zero points and who ever would lose the game would get eliminated from the tournament and the winner would have a fighting chance. An early goal gave the momentum to Croatia. When Cameroon’s Alex Song elbowed Mario Mandzukic in the back late in the first half and got a red card, the momentum really swung.
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"It's clear we have to find the reasons what's going on because such behaviour is really disgusting, it won't do, it's impossible," Cameroon coach Volker Finke said.
"A result like this is a shame for Cameroon. I think until the red card it was a little bit of a match (when both teams played) at the same level, perhaps the Croatians were more efficient but Cameroon also had good some chances," he said.
"We have to sleep and do an analysis and then we can announce something," he added, apparently referring to possible disciplinary measures after the unsavoury scenes. "There will be consequences stemming from this."
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