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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Hosts Cameroon made heavy work of beating 10-man Comoros Islands 2-1 on Monday to advance to the African Cup of Nations quarter-finals at the expense of a team who had everything stacked against them in the last 16.<\/p>\n

Karl Toko Ekambi and Vincent Aboubakar scored the home team’s goals at the Olembe Stadium to eliminate the debutants, who were forced to use a full back in goal and had their captain sent off after six minutes.<\/p>\n

But Comoros still put up a gallant fight and, despite the considerable disadvantage, pulled a goal back from Youssouf M’Changama with nine minutes remaining to depart the tournament with their reputations considerably enhanced.<\/p>\n

Cameroon meet upstarts Gambia in the last eight in Douala on Saturday after they upset Guinea 1-0 in Bafoussam earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n

Ravaged by COVID-19 infections, Comoros had no goalkeeper available for the game, bringing left-back Chaker Alhadhur into service, plus had to do without coach Amir Abdou, who is also in quarantine.<\/p>\n

The situation worsened considerably six minutes into the game when captain Nadjim Abdou was dismissed for a lunging tackle that caught Nicolas Moumi on the Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n

The red card, however, was only issued after the Ethiopian referee Bamlak Tessema had been advised to review the incident on the pitchside VAR screen.<\/p>\n

Cameroon, five-time African champions, went on the attack from the start but were met by spirited resistance.<\/p>\n

Their first efforts from Aboubakar and Toko Ekambi were both wide of the target, failing to test the makeshift goalkeeper before a simple inside pass from captain Aboubakar left Toko Ekambi with an easy finish to open the scoring in the 29th minute.<\/p>\n

Alhadhur made several sharp, albeit unorthodox saves to keep Cameroon at bay until Aboubakar slipped around the defence to latch onto a clever through pass and make it 2-0 with 20 minutes left.<\/p>\n

But Comoros were in no mind to pack the defence and El Fardou Ben Mohamed forced a flying save out of Andre Onana in the 79th minute before M’Changama then beat the goalkeeper with a superb long-range freekick.<\/p>\n

All three goalkeepers for the small island nation had been ruled out of the match on the eve of the tie one through injury and two after testing COVID-19 positive last week.<\/p>\n

But Ali Ahamada returned a new negative test and was pronounced fit to play by the Comoros Football Federation in a medical bulletin on Monday, only for his participation to be later ruled out by the Confederation of African Football.<\/p>\n

Their medical commission said any player who had been in quarantine would have to wait a minimum of five days before being allowed to return to play.<\/p>\n

Instead, Comoros fielded the 30-year-old defender Alhadhur, who had his squad number plastered on an oversized goalkeeping jersey and whose first touch was to head the ball clear from the edge of his box.<\/p>\n

He did not make an actual save until late in the first half in what almost turned into a fairytale performance.<\/p>\n

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