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Cameroon hunt down Elephants (05.09.2005)
Achille Webo scored a hat-trick as Cameroon stunned Ivory Coast 3-2 on Sunday and moved into top spot in Group Three. Didier Drogba bagged a brace for the home side, but Webo twice took advantage of hesitancy in the Ivorian defence before grabbing a dramatic 85th-minute winner.
Henri Michel`s `Elephants` needed only a win before kick-off to secure an historic first-ever World Cup finals berth, but now it is Cameroon who can assure themselves of a place in Germany if they beat Egypt at home next month.
But the sides looked to be settling for a point before Webo threw himself full length to head home after a long-range free-kick had cannoned off a post into his path.
It was not the first time that the Osasuna man had profited from sleepy defending from the Ivorians, nipping in ahead of Kolo Toure to open the scoring with an opportunist lob on the half hour.
Drogba - who had earlier seen a goalbound effort cleared off the line - levelled six minutes later, coolly
slotting home after superb work by Aruna Dindane down the right and approximative defending from Pierre Wome.
But just seconds before the half-time whistle, the Elephants` defence looked appropriately leaden-footed, all but stopping in synch as Rodolph Doulala nodded back across goal for Webo to turn the table back in Cameroon`s favour.
But the Ivory Coast look to Drogba, the undisputed star, to salvage them and the Chelsea man appeared to have done so - and brilliantly - less than a minute after the interval.
On the front foot from the kick-off, the Ivory Coast earned a free-kick twenty-five metres out - Drogba struck a sweet effort whose blend of pace, dip and accuracy overwhelmed Souleymanou Hamidou in the Cameroon goal.
It was a fantastic goal - one which laid to rest the myth of bargain basement African football - but was so nearly upstaged by team-mate Didier Zokora`s thirty-five metre blunderbuss which smashed off the crossbar with a quarter of an hour remaining.
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