Avram Grant admits Ghana's defeat to Senegal has made qualification difficult
Avram Grants admits Ghana’s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations opening defeat to Senegal has made qualification difficult.
The Black Stars crumbled to a painful 2-1 defeat the Terranga Lions in group C opener in Mongomo on Monday.
The Ghanaians took an early lead in the first half but failed to hold onto the lead after crumbling to incessant pressure from the Alain Giresse men.
The former Chelsea coach admits the defeat has made matter worse for his team.
“Yes, the loss makes it difficult for us, but all is not lost. We still have two matches to play and we will immediately focus on those games, but why we could not match up to the pace of the Senegalese, I can't explain, but no doubt our opponents used their physical strength very well to their advantage," he said.
The Black Stars must now negotiate their qualification to the next stage with wins over Algeria and South Africa.
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Ghanaman
9 years ago
What do Ghanaians expect when before your team starts a tournament so-called football anaylsts sit on radio and predict their doom? Some of them feel so good and intellectual when they engage in running the team down. Just listen to this coach called Opeele Boateng on radio. He is so cheap but feels so good among the other illiterate analysts. All he does is talk about why the Black Stars will fail and I wonder if he is Ghanaian. I don't know where he did his coaching, but all of a sudden he is behaving like a psychic engaged in numerology and all kinds of ***barred word*** things, predicting the fall of Ghana. What he does best is criticize and flaunt his funny degree he obtained in Cape Vars. He has failed in every opportunity he was given to coach any team, yet he portrays himself as somebody who understands the game more than the Alex Fergussons and the Maurinos of this world. Where he practices his coaching trade is on Asempa Sports. Such an upstart. It's unfair that I am picking on this young coach but that is the truth. For whatever reason these apology of football analysts are interested in the negatives of the Black Stars and nothing more. They will be all over the airwaves taking credit for predicting doom for the team, which has come to pass. Some patriots! I am privileged to travel around and listen to radio especially on sports and it is only in Ghana that you have so-called sports analysts and journalists treat their own national team with so much hatred. Openly wishing failure for Ghana because somebody hates Kwasi Nyantakyi and his FA so the team must fail to make the FA unpopular. The typical NDC / NPP attitude. My advice to Opeele and his friends is simple: You cannot be great if you wish the downfall of another
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