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England beats Cameroon 2-0
LONDON (AP) -- England and Cameroon have both qualified for next year's World Cup, but it was England with a 2-0 win Saturday with goals by Paul Scholes and Robbie Fowler that looked the more ready to do damage next year in France.England, after dominating most of the first half, got goals from Scholes and Fowler within a minute of each other in first-half injury time to take the 2-0 lead.
Scholes -- after Paul Gascoigne brought the ball up the middle and beat several Cameroon defenders -- took a pass from Gascoigne, lost the ball, then recovered it and scored from 10 metres on a perfectly measured lob over the head of goalkeeper Vincent Ongandzi.
Fowler scored a minute later on a header -- also from 10 metres off a cross from his right from Manchester United's David Beckham.
The only bad news from the first half was the loss of defender Gareth Southgate, who was taken off with a leg injury in the 39th and replaced by 19-year-old West Ham defender Rio Ferdinand.
Ferdinand became the the youngest player to take the field for England since 1955 and the third youngest this century.
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