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00:00 that habit as the captains Abid Ali and Pierre Mrikabamian.
00:04 Hopefully everyone there is okay.
00:07 So we're underway then here in Nouakchott.
00:09 Our hosts Mauritania in a predominantly white strip
00:15 attacking the goal to our left here in the first half
00:18 is where the free kick taker will be aiming on this one.
00:26 The ball goes into the back post but it's a little bit too close to the keeper
00:30 and he's able to gather that calmly.
00:33 And what's happened here?
00:39 Well, there was obstruction on the goalkeeper.
00:41 The Mauritania player has gone down.
00:46 What the referee has or has not given.
00:50 See the keeper being grabbed.
00:55 And it's just pure instinct to try and shrug the man off.
00:58 Applies his trade in Luxembourg with Rodange.
01:03 He's going to come on.
01:06 In Denis Buanga's place to replace the goalkeeper Jean-Noel Amenem.
01:14 In his first job, he's going to be to face a penalty.
01:20 They've won the ball in midfield.
01:28 Now they're in behind goal here.
01:29 An opportunity to take the opener and they're very quickly off the line
01:32 as a substitute goalkeeper, Mizui.
01:34 The ball won in midfield and spread over to this near side.
01:40 Battling for the ball hard is Tangi.
01:43 Nice pass into the edge of the area.
01:46 Lacrosse got a little bit of space here.
01:47 The shot comes straight at the keeper and he punches that straight up in the air.
01:51 The head has been missed.
01:53 And eventually.
01:55 Reflects back to the goalkeeper who gratefully takes the bouncing ball.
02:02 The Mauritania now their space on this near side.
02:05 Ali looks up, lops the ball into the air.
02:09 The keeper comes for it and gets it as well.
02:11 Under pressure, he had to come out to that.
02:16 Long ball over the top of the rim behind here, Mauritania.
02:19 Great chance to take the lead and they have.
02:20 Simple ball over the top.
02:24 And Hemiya Tangi.
02:25 Made no mistake.
02:30 He was cool, calm and collected.
02:33 In the Saharan sunshine.
02:35 Oh, Gabon right up against it now.
02:43 Great strike from Tangi, his second goal.
02:47 Of the qualification campaign.
02:50 The celebrations are all over the place here.
02:55 No, a debut striker.
03:06 Broke the offside trap.
03:08 Lovely first touch on the chest.
03:10 Not quite sure what the keeper is trying to claim there.
03:15 Seemed to lose his bearings a bit.
03:20 He was able to pass that into the centre of the goal.
03:22 Oh, the snapshot there, and it's only just.
03:31 Well, it's come back off the up off the post, actually.
03:33 The shot so quick, the cameraman couldn't keep up with it.
03:39 And now Gabon with a chance on the counterattack here.
03:41 Space over on the left hand side.
03:43 Obamiyang with a chance to turn.
03:45 And he's fed it in nicely there, but then just slightly overplayed.
03:50 The ball goes out for a goal kick opportunity.
03:52 Mr.
03:54 Ran himself into the advertising boards.
03:56 Lovely piece of skill on the turn.
04:01 Keeper beaten all ends up, couldn't beat the post, though.
04:04 Any sort of suggestion of a feigning of injury,
04:07 they're simply being told to get up and get on with the game.
04:09 And they're giving the ball away here at the back.
04:11 And there's an opportunity now for 2-0.
04:13 And there it is.
04:14 Three minutes before the break, Mauritania now two goals,
04:18 two the good against ten, Man-Gabon.
04:20 Drabour giving away there a sloppy pass from Mdong.
04:31 The El Riyad defender.
04:40 And slammed home by Aboubakar Kamara.
04:42 There is a Thessaloniki
04:47 front man with his third goal
04:50 of the qualification campaign, top scorer in the group now.
04:54 Picked up on the edge of the air, just takes a moment.
04:59 And there's Obamiyang, surely.
05:00 Oh, the flag's gone up.
05:03 Obviously had to challenge for the loose ball.
05:09 In fact, he's gone for a handball, hasn't it?
05:15 As the ball came over the defender, he's slightly unsighted.
05:19 I think he just misjudged it.
05:20 So 45 minutes separate Mauritania
05:26 from what would be a third consecutive qualification.
05:30 It's Gabon.
05:31 Play the way forwards and Obamiyang now.
05:35 Space opens up for Obamiyang and the shot deflects wide for a corner.
05:39 Vital challenge coming in just as the moment as the Marseille man
05:44 was pulling the trigger there on the edge of the area.
05:46 Just opened up for a moment.
05:48 He does love to cut back inside onto his right foot.
05:51 The left side of a front three.
05:54 Mauritania come forwards.
06:02 Oh, and the shot scrambled behind by the goalkeeper.
06:07 It'll be a Mauritania corner.
06:08 Or will it?
06:11 Nice delivery, flying punch from the goalkeeper.
06:17 Still under pressure though.
06:21 Here comes the shot from distance and that's not far over the bar either.
06:24 Well, nobody closed him down.
06:28 He's trying to get the ball over the top and get Obamiyang chasing after this.
06:31 And he does that.
06:31 He goes for the volley and it's just been deflected wide.
06:34 The keeper getting very lucky there.
06:37 And a very nearly deflected in it is near post.
06:39 Have a look at this.
06:40 Bouncing ball.
06:43 Looping volley from.
06:47 Just wonder about the wisdom, certainly for from a Mauritanian
06:50 point of view.
06:53 Just wonder about the wisdom of having used using up all the substitutes
06:56 of 20 minutes to go.
06:57 The player now.
07:01 Who's been who's been red carded this time?
07:03 Is that the player?
07:04 Is it the medical staff?
07:06 What's going on now?
07:08 Pass goes short to Ndong who brings the ball forward in this space.
07:14 Now on this left hand side, Mauritania sitting deeper and deeper as the ball is
07:18 flicked and it was just away from Obamiyang and the keepers lost it.
07:21 Oh, my word.
07:23 What a mistake from Niasse Babacar.
07:29 And one more goal for Gabon and they will be ahead of Mauritania
07:33 in the final.
07:34 Just misjudge the bounce.
07:36 It can happen on a classic pitch.
07:44 The ball is coming in there and it's span.
07:45 10 seconds, plus maybe a few extra for the goal to play here.
07:51 Headed away on the edge of the area again, picked up by Gabon, fed back into
07:55 the danger area, knotted down opportunity for Obamiyang and the follow up.
07:58 Fantastic save.
08:00 Surely the save that puts Mauritania into the Africa Cup of Nations.
08:04 And there's the final whistle.
08:05 Mauritania have done it in the most dramatic of circumstances here
08:11 in the nation's capital.
08:13 2-1, winners in the end.
08:18 Gabon so close to the equaliser in the final moments,
08:23 which would put them ahead.
08:24 But now it's a game of chance.
08:27 Final moments would put them ahead.
08:29 But now no matter what happens in Kinshasa in the other group game,
08:34 Mauritania are guaranteed a place at the big show in the Ivory Coast
08:38 at the beginning of next year.
08:40 And the party in Nouakchott can start now.
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