Vincent Aboubakar scored two times and Andre Onana stored a stoppage-time penalty as Cameroon convincingly beat Cape Verde 4-1 in Marc Brys’ first recreation accountable for the Indomitable Lions.

Brys’ appointment in April had unfolded a row between the rustic’s soccer federation (Fecafoot) and its Ministry of Game, however the Belgian teacher’s advent to global control was once in large part relaxing.

Cape Verde seemed a silhoutte of the facet which had reached the quarter-finals of the 2023 Africa Cup of International locations previous this future – one spherical additional than Cameroon had controlled – with set-pieces proving their undoing.

The lead to Yaounde was once past dubiousness when Onana stored Kevin Pina’s penalty within the 94th little, and the Manchester United goalkeeper was once nearest fouled by way of Gilson Benchimol when he tried to bind the shed ball on his goalline.

The outcome takes the Central Africans again to the lead of Workforce D in African qualifying for the 2026 Fifa Global Cup, forward of Libya on purpose excess with each groups on seven issues next 3 video games.

Africa can have 9 facets on the expanded 2026 finals, with all qualifying crew winners confident of a park in the USA, Mexico and Canada.