Cameroon - Chile Confederations Cup 18/06/2017

Cameroon vs Chile
Kick-off Time: 19:00 GMT 
Competition: Confederations Cup
Date: 18 June 2017
Venue: Otkrytiye Arena, Moskva

This year's begining was great for Cameroon team and, at the African Cup of Nations in Gabon, the team managed to stay undefeated in all games so they eventually deservedly won the title of the continental champions, which led them to the Confederations Cup. It cannot be said that they were that great at the aforementioned African Cup of Nations, because they played 02 draws in the group and with one win they passed in the knockout stage, then they continued with very hard and uncertain matches, except for the semi-finals, where they defeated Ghana team with 2-0. Before that, Cameroon eliminated Senegal after the penalty, defeated Egypt with 2-1 in the big finals and, thus, won the new title of the best team on the “Black continent”. Since that finals, they have played 03 friendly games, but were defeated twice.

Particularly, painful was their defeat in the prelude for this competition because Colombia team has defeated them with 4-0. They also lost against Guinea, and defeated Tunisia and Morocco in the first qualifying round for the upcoming edition of the African Cup of Nations. When it comes to qualifiers for the World Cup, they are not doing good and in the first two rounds they have only played two draws, so the leader, Nigeria, already has 04 points more than them, and the game against that team at the end of August may be perhaps a decisive one. Until then, Cameroon want to present Africa in the best way possible in this competition and the biggest hope is their goalkeeper, Onan, and great strikers: Moukandjo and Aboubakar.

Chile is one of the teams for which it very important to win the trophy at the Confederations Cup, and the composition that has arrived in Russia certainly confirms it. Almost all of the best players are present, and perhaps the only absences worth mentioning are: the left-back Albornoz, the offensives Orellan and Valdivia, and midfielder Fernandes, but considering how many players are lacking in some other teams that is almost not a big handicap. It is important that they are complete in defensive part and in their recognizable composition, because they have their first midfielder: Vidal from Bayern, and striker from Arsenal, Sanchez, so it will be much easier for the others.

Chile team has succeeded after a long time to finally win Copa America, and then they repeated it all again in that jubilee edition and this has brought them to Russia this summer, while it is still not sure whether it will be seen in the World Cup of Russia next summer. They are currently in 4th position in South American qualifiers and this place takes them to the World Cup of Russia, but immediately below them is Argentina and it will be a taugh opponent because none of the teams is not far away on the table. They did not really played very good in their friendly matches before the Confederations Cup, and they defeated only Burkina Faso, while they played draws with Russia and then lost to Romania after they had the lead of 2-0, although they had one player less on the field due to suspension of: Medel.

Cameroon results of the last 5 matches:

05/02/17 Egypt 1 – 2 Cameroon
24/03/17 Tunisia 0 – 1 Cameroon
28/03/17 Cameroon 1 – 2 Guinea
10/06/17 Cameroon 1 – 0 Morocco
13/06/17 Cameroon 0 – 4 Colombia

Chile results of the last 5 matches:

24/03/17 Argentina 1 – 0 Chile
29/03/17 Chile 3 – 1 Venezuela
03/06/17 Chile 3 – 0 Burkina Faso
09/06/17 Russia 1 – 1 Chile
13/06/17 Romania 3 – 2 Chile