The Hawk is a bird noted for its wonderful ability to hunt for preys while simultaneously protecting its offspring. This is exactly what the Togo national football team that goes by the appellation The Hawks did in their first round match World Cup/Africa Cup qualifiers against The Indomitable Lions of Cameroun at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra on Saturday.

Thanks to an early goal in the first quarter of the game by Arsenal prodigy Emmanuel Adebayor, Togo collected maximum points to give them a brilliant start in the round robin tourney also involving Gabon and Morocco. The Togolese mounted a heavy barricade at the rear and all the brilliant efforts by Samuel Etoo of Barcelona fame and his fast running colleagues came to naught

Indeed Adebayor could have doubled the tally with about 10 minutes remaining but he rather lazily shot over the bar from the penalty spot after he had been fouled in the box.

The match was played in Accra following a FIFA home ban against Togo for crowd violence in an international match in Lome.

It was a big invasion of Togolese fans to Accra who had tacit support from the Ghanaian crowd and the stadium was almost filled up.

It may be recalled that Cameroun beat Ghana 1-0 in the semi finals of 2008 Africa Cup of Nations hosted by Ghana.