In the other Group B game, Gabon and Switzerland tied 1-1 after Pierre Aubameyang saved a point for the African side after Admir Mehmedi gave the Swiss side the lead with a fifth minute penalty.

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With 15 minutes remaining and chances few and far between, Lille came agonisingly close as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang poked a Ludovic Obraniak cross just over the bar.

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Aubameyang, whose brothers Catilina and Pierre-Emerick also played for Milan, joined the Serie A club from Triestina in 2005 and made his first-team debut in December 2007.

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