payet is such an awesome player that free kick was stunning
Dimitri Payet's stunning last-minute free kick clinched France a 3-2 win in an entertaining friendly against Cameroon in Nantes.
West Ham midfielder Payet picked up where he had left off in the Premier League this season to steal the plaudits after Maxim Choupo-Moting's late equaliser looked to have sealed Cameroon a draw at Stade de la Beaujoire.
Blaise Matuidi's first-half opener had been cancelled out by Cameroon striker Vincent Aboubakar before Olivier Giroud gave Les Bleus an interval lead.
Cameroon were first to threaten after a cagey opening when Karl Toko Ekambi's 13th-minute shot from outside the penalty area was turned away by France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris in the bottom corner.
But the home side took a 20th-minute lead through Matuidi's volley from the centre of the penalty area after Kingsley Coman's brilliant run and cross from the left.
Cameroon drew level a minute later with a superb move involving Eyong Enoh, whose through ball found Allan Nyom and the overlapping full-back's excellent low cross to the far post was swept home first time by Aboubakar.
Nyom was in the thick of the action again, this time at the other end, in the 37th minute when his superbly-timed tackle in the area denied Matuidi a clear shot on goal.
But France regained the lead four minutes later with another eye-catching goal created by Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba and finished with aplomb by Arsenal striker Giroud.
Pogba beat his man out wide on the right and swung in a pin-point cross that Giroud expertly side-footed home on the volley.
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