Going to Cote d’Ivoire with nothing to lose after picking the first group D ticket for AFCON 2015, ten men Indomitable Lions were able to hold The Elephants to end the International football season unbeaten in six games.
The final Group D clash between The Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire and The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon which many has term as Africa’s greatest game, however lack the momentum many have expected to see from both sides.
One will have expected the Elephants to put on their best show to get the one point they so much needed, they however killed the tempo of the game.
The Elephants saw few of their chances stopped by Lions keeper, Ondoua. They only played a more offensive game for 15 minutes after lions’ skipper Stephane Mbia received a red card in the 58th minute.
Noticing that they could not break the lions defense line, they decided to play on their own camp while the lions watch from theirs.
The draw meant that the lions who are currently enjoying a youthful revolution have gone six games unbeaten and sat comfortably at the pole with 14 points from six matches having won four and drawn two.
The lions recent form shows that they have been workmanlike and gritty; the gormless display in the summer is now well and truly a thing of the past.
