| Live Match Commentary |
Up-to-the-Second Score: Cameroon 0, Germany 2 -- FINAL MATCH REPORT |
90 +2' -- Finally, finally the whistle blows, and Germany wins Group E. Fifty-three fouls, 16 cards and two expulsions today. |
90 +1' -- Keeper saves well again by knocking Jeremies bullet over the bar. |
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90' -- job is five yards offside before heading the ball past Kahn. |
88' -- Ballack almost makes it 3-0 with his head but the keeper actually makes a nice reaction save to his left. |
84' -- Oliver Neuville in for Klose. |
81' -- Joseph-Desirein Job in for Mboma. |
81' -- Lauren booked for a hard foul. |
81' -- Jens Jeremies in for Schneider. |
79' -- GOAL GERMANY. Klose scores with -- of course -- his head from close in as the goalie backs up. |
77' --  Suffo is booked for second hard foul. |
72' -- Torsten Frings booked for a hard foul. |
73' -- Lauren heads a free kick off the right post and Mboma fires a rebound at Kahn, who had dived to his left then switched to his right and was in perfect position. |
72' -- Ziege booked for unsporting behavior. He would miss a Round of 16 game |
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71' -- Ballack shoots weakly wide right. |
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69' -- Cameroon free kick headed on but through the area and over the goalline. |
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65' -- Kome's shot much closer than initial appearance -- just over German crossbar. |
64' -- Daniel Ngom Kome in for Olembe for Cameroon. |
60' -- Suffo booked for dissent. |
58' -- Olembe booked for tackle from behind. |
56' -- Geremi booked for unsporting behavior. |
53' -- Patrick Suffo in for Tchato for Cameroon. |
50' -- GOAL GERMANY. Bode, the sub, gets a slotted through ball from Klose and goes 1-v-1 vs. the keeper. No contest as Bode hits the right side net |
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47' -- Slow start to the half. Fans starting to put on rain gear.
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46' -- Second half under way, as Germany sends in Marco Bode for Jancker. |
| Second Half |
45 +3' -- Halftime whistle blows. Nine yellows in the first half -- total of nine shots also. Germany, if it advances, will be missing Hamann and Ramelow in the Round of 16. |
44' -- Bill Tchato booked for shirt pulling.
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42' -- Kahn and Song booked for unsporting behavior.
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41' -- Cameroon free kick off the wall for a corner. Push called against Cameroon on the corner. |
40' -- Carsten
Ramelow booked a second time for a hard foul.
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40' -- Ziege's corner swerves in too close and is caught by the keeper. |
36' -- Carsten
Ramelow booked for a hard foul. Free kick shot well wide.
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35' -- Ziege curls free kick that almost fools Boukar. The keeper leaps at the last second to parry the ball over the bar at the left upper corner. |
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32' -- Patrick Mboma whistled offside -- a dubious call. |
31' -- Michael Ballack booked for hard foul. |
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31' -- Two German shots deflected by Cameroon defense. |
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30' -- The match has turned in Cameroon's favor. |
29' -- Dietmar Hamann booked for hard foul. That's his second yellow of the first round. |
28' -- Song misses a header from 7 yards. |
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26' -- Cameroon gets a free kick to the right of the German penalty area. Kahn punches the shot and it hits off a defender. The corner kick comes to nothing. |
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22' -- Bernd Schneider shoots from close to the halfway line and almost catches Boukar Alioum off his line. |
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19' -- Searching German free kick can't find Jancker in the area. |
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17' -- German combination play is broken up in the area. |
13' -- Salomon Olembe steams through the German offside trap but when faced with Oliver Kahn, he hesitates and his weak shot is punched away. Olembe gathers and hits a soft cross that Kahn knocks carelessly down with his right and the ball dribbles toward net. Kahn gathers himself and gathers in the ball. |
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12' -- Germany wins a corner that is wasted. |
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9' -- Michael Ballack shoots high with his left. |
9' -- Jancker cautioned for high boot. |
8' -- Marc-Vivien Foe cautioned for rough play. |
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7' -- Germans head out of the area a Cameroon free kick. |
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5' -- Germany dominating possession |
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3' --Rigobert Song deflects the ball over his own goal. Nothing comes of the German corner. |
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1' -- Christian Ziege's cross is hit wide by a sliding Carsten Jancker |
1' -- Germany kicks off. The match is under way |
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Kickoff at 7:30 a.m. EDT; 11:30 a.m. GMT |
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