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Two second-half goals gave 10-man Germany a 2-0 victory over Cameroon on Tuesday for a berth in the last 16 of the World Cup as they topped group E in a match featuring two red cards and 12 other yellow cards.

Key defender Carsten Ramelow had been sent off for a second bookable offence when substitute striker Marco Bode collected a fine pass from striker Miroslav Klose to beat Cameroon goalkeeper Boukar Alioum from close range five minutes after the break.

A header from a Michael Ballack cross by Klose, now the tournament8217;s leading scorer with five goals, sealed Germany8217;s victory 11 minutes from time. Bode said: 8220;We had to play more defensively in the second half. The conditions were very different then because we only had 10 men. We knew they had weaknesses but we didn8217;t take advantage of them in the first half.8221; Reuters