Cameroon ahead Vincent Aboubakar was despatched off for celebrating after scoring its opening objective towards Brazil within the ultimate Group G match of the FIFA World Cup on the Lusail Stadium on Saturday.
The 30-year-old scored with an excellent header from a Jerome Mbekeli cross, placing the Indomitable Lions forward, two minutes into second half harm time. He turned solely the third African participant to attain towards Brazil within the FIFA World Cup , after Didier Drogba in 2010 and Joel Matip in 2014.
This was his second objective within the match, with the primary coming towards Serbia within the second match, when Cameroon began a comeback after the hour mark on the Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar.
Nonetheless, the ahead, who was on a yellow card already, determined to rejoice by taking off his shirt, which, by guidelines, is penalised by a yellow card.
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Aboubakar, because of this, was proven the second yellow of the match, as he left the pitch after a smile and a hand shake with the referee. He turned the primary participant to attain and be despatched off in a World Cup match since Zinedine Zidane vs Italy within the 2006 ultimate.
Regardless of the objective, Cameroon didn’t safe qualification as Switzerland beat Serbia within the different Group G match, to see Brazil and the Swiss progress into the ultimate 16.
