{"id":4249,"date":"2014-06-02T03:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2014-06-02T07:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T07:08:05","slug":"etoo-choupo-moting-on-target-as-cameroon-force-germany-to-a-2-2draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/etoo-choupo-moting-on-target-as-cameroon-force-germany-to-a-2-2draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Eto&#8217;o, Choupo-Moting On Target As Cameroon Force Germany To A 2-2 Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon came from behind to claim a 2-2 draw with Germany on Sunday to give the Indomitable Lions a pre-World Cup boost in their penultimate prep before Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n<p>All four goals came in an entertaining second-half as Cameroon, coached by German Volker Finke, came within a whisker of a historic first win over Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Africans took a shock lead through Chelsea&#8217;s Samuel Eto&#8217;o on 62 minutes only for Germany to equalise four minutes later through Thomas Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>German replacement Andre Schuerrle gave the hosts the lead before Cameroon left-wing Eric Choupo-Moting, who plies his trade in the Bundesliga for Mainz 05, popped up with the 78th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon avoided their second consecutive defeat after losing 2-1 to Paraguay last Thursday, while Germany were missing stars Philipp Lahm, Manuel Neuer and Bastian Schweinsteiger.<\/p>\n<p>Finke&#8217;s Indomitable Lions play their final warm-up match against Moldovia in Yaounde on Saturday before their opening World Cup match against Mexico on June 13 in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Germany host Armenia in Mainz on Friday in their final match before flying to Brazil on Saturday as they face Portugal on June 16 in Group G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon came from behind to claim a 2-2 draw with Germany on Sunday to give the Indomitable Lions a pre-World Cup boost in their penultimate prep before Brazil 2014. All four goals came in an entertaining second-half as Cameroon, coached by German Volker Finke, came within a whisker of a historic first win over Germany. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4262,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}