Ghana vs Niger 2025 AFCON Q review: Why are the Black Stars so bad right now | Sports Zone(9-9-24)

it is tonight a conversation that is not centered on what the impact of the pitch was in Ghana's draw against Nigeria in the ongoing 2025 African Cup of Nations qualifiers however the conversations is seted around the performance of The Players many have described it as lethargic others said that it was ponderous as what that actually meant I'll have my Gentleman here tonight to break it down for us to have an understanding of what sort of performance we witness from the black stars in their first two games in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers it is the first time in more than a decade that the senior national team has had such a difficult start to life in an African Cup of Nations qualifier and tonight we bring you a debut of Guinness match day as I always mention Guinness is one of the reasons why we bring you Sports on every single Monday so Guinness tonight we bring you a debut of what we call Guinness March day here on Sports Zone this show proudly brought to you by synx Tank a strong tough K four one four in one Gary so e and Guinness making it possible for us to bring you Sports Z tonight I am mu Abdul I'm taking a quick break when I come back I'll be introducing my guest who are already seated for the show tonight disgrace me pitch pitch pitch what is pitch disappointment for disgrace to tonight we are diving into the black stars performance in the opening games of the African Cup of Nations 2025 qualifiers and joining me is a man who thought going on leave was more of a pension leave no be pension he's back he's hereon charie your audience really miss you charie welcome back what a you miss me say you miss me and putting into audience you said leave no like 15 times say you miss me and stop I miss you that's it welcome back wasn't that hard how are you I'm good Rak is here that's smiling one do go there like 25 days C cra cra you're back 25 it was 25 he was that one for that long was even 25 days you you missed me no so day without me is like a, years 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players the what have we done June the last International break yes they went to Mali went to win mhm that was our first win in 2024 yes followed it up with a 4-3 win over Central African Republic sure that was the first time Ghana had won backto back competitive games in over a year yes in fact we actually had to go back to qu AIA in 2019 when he beat South Africa and the yes so we thought we were progressing on ascendency then at the end of the June International window when the who draw was done mhm we look that the group were in first two fixtures at home against Angola and away because Niger were going to play away from home neutral ground Morocco sweet Stadium nice pitch on paper this look like the perfect possible fixtures to build on from what you did in June and go and do this don't get it like what have we done to them last week the game against Angola I believe that genuinely the pitch was an issue was it a contributing factor it was it was a major factor major factor that's what I believe OT came out criticized a pitch even the angolan coach himself came out and criticized the pitch when people are telling you the team that you are using this thing as an excuse and you are going to an even better Stadium better facilities a better pitch isn't this an opportunity for you to prove doubter wrong it's literally the perfect opportunity that you said that you were not able to win against Angola because the pitch was a major issue you go to Morocco a few days later against the the least fancy team in the group the least fancy team in the group N it is literally the perfect opportunity for you to shut up your doubters by the performance and hopefully their Cor responding result and even justify the position of many people that the pitch was the reason why he lost against Angola and you going and play like this you see me it's not really the result that bothers me it's a performance it's like we are begging ah Bo if you play Go no see look there are so many talented players plenty if Kar comes you can ask him we can name another 14 15 players who are out there who are waiting and hoping to get call up so if you are playing against n a slow poor learic first half and God dashes you a go because that that go they didn't work for it that go from Ali that's not a goal you work from training it just happened Ali was the last time you saw him shoot a ball because there were no options so Po and the has enter the pool it went like that no no solid goal but it's not a goal where you see when you analyze the first half we didn't deserve to to go in in the lead but luckily you go into the break having the lead you come out in the second half and you play the way you played like no agency no commitment nothing no desire no desire it was literally like they were just waiting for 90 minutes to be up they can go people even claim they were walking about you we watch the game look I was bored I was bored doing comment it was it was extremely difficult doing commentary viewers I'm sure you you got tired by 74 me you can tune off I couldn't tune off because I was doing a job unfortunately for me I had to sit through the torture of this game and I don't get it like I I don't understand because there were two many things at stake you've already lost the opening game you are three points behind already this is the literally the whipping boys in the group you have to get three points against in fact six maximum six points against them because I we in Kum I we in Luanda two extremely difficult games it's only two thingsam that are going to qualify your your direct Rivals for the two qualification Sports have started really well so now there's pressure on you like you don't win don't don't don't win you can go and draw but show something show some agency they did nothing like that and for me that's look it's it's so upsetting the body language of of the black stars players so so upsetting I'm usually one who usually sees like positives and things but I was so upset today and the sub to just today I just didn't understand quick one before I leave the triple substitution in the second half for me till now I think maybe till next International window that's maybe when I'll try and get a small ounce of understanding behind that substitution but if you take off a Winger in fat isaku and replace him with yeah Brandon then you bring you take off inyi bring on Jordan Jordan you take off ashimeru bring on elah and bring on elishah now the thinking behind and that's what I'm think the thinking behind elishah was okay we are trying to close shop but if you trying to close you see it is not advisable to CL because this black team doesn't they can't defend set pieces we know the height Advantage belong to the Nigerians so if you're going to stop playing and you're going to invite pressure the more long balls the more set pieces the more you at risk of conceding coning what can you do instead if ashim wasn't doing the job there were two like for like Replacements on the bench in Abu Francis and amanga why don't force him why don't you bring one of them on and then take the steam out of the game by controlling The Possession pass it around if you don't want to score don't let the Nigerians have possession pass it that's what experienced teams do pass it around you have part you have your forcing or your your your Abu you can gain control of that Midfield but when you bring in Elisha who is not comfortable on the ball now you are you are now there's extra pressure on part to be able to to to dictate the tempo of the game which obviously it was it was it was getting Beyond his control then the braen and Jordan substitutions I I'm very confused Jordan okay fine but even Bren fine if if you are bringing Bren on why do you send a center for it to go and play at left wing when there's a natural left Winger on the bench in Osman the space was there glaring the entire second half for him to run through and for him to run through fat get the ball he doesn't seem concerned about exploiting the space same on the right hand side SEO gets the ball he doesn't seem he's walking he doesn't seem like he's interested but there's a natural Winger on the bench in Osman so why will you bring a center forward and ask him to play on the left wing and then bring somebody who's played in fact the last five years of his career Jord has playing as a Winger so if anything why didn't you send Jordan to the wing and let Bren play his natural position like what's the thing what was the thinking behind that it's so confusing they literally just handed momentum straight to the Nigerians and they were waiting to get the equal look Ghana is lucky that we we we drew this game remember the last GH is lucky because if you look at the chances that we created in the game the scenarios that we created in the game we are just lucky that n lack quality it's as simple as that if this if this performance was against Angola we could EAS have been looking at a four or five like it was serious was it was that bad we were lucky Niger will create really good scenarios and they play a very poor shot and then just passes by but a quality player or somebody of let's say like a a a a a 65 70% player will be hitting the Target and we'll be testing your goalkeeper so we are really lucky reallyy indeed if they had if they had quality players they probably would have hit the ball from from AAR M you're just looking at the highlights on the screen right now um you were there you watch the game um Daniel has spoken a lot ranging from the attitude of the boys in their approach to the game to the technical Decisions by Oto ado from where you said um what what what did not work or should I even say what did the Nigerians do right that Ghana did not do I mean to be fair the Nigerians defended very well um they knew that were playing against a ghanan side that they were never going to get hold of the ball for a Chun of the game they understood that perfectly and you could see I think even in the first half we're just talking about how they organized themselves for the back whenever Ghana was holding the ball could see about five of them at the back because they knew that that is what they can best do when they get the chance on the counter because they've seen that Ghana has problem when it comes to defending counterattacks so they're looking to take advantage of that so they defended really well throughout the game and offered Ghana very limited chances no wonder the goal we got from the game was only KY you know like what Daniel describes just a god gift because if you look at it closely muhamed Kus picks the B dribbles does a few dribbles then gives it out y to Al Al was actually trying was first of all thinking of Crossing then he says why not let me just let me just do something and in fact SEO was actually running into space exactly he was because the Natural Instinct of alidu is often not to shoot that's why we don't see that often from him but it was a really beautiful strike because for a moment I thought he took a deflection but it didn't take any deflection was a swerve short it's really beautiful strike but it's uncharacteristic of him and it explains the the kind of performance the black stars put up today because I can count how many chances we had in the first half and I cannot remember any the closest we came was in the second half we talk about inaki Williams chance which you know I thought was a corner key but was a really fine chance controll it with his head and and the shots and the goalkeeper saving it then you talk about the chance that we had at somewhere in the second Jon came in open his just allowed the ball to pass through his legs and I was thinking that maybe muhamed K should have done better with that maybe just you know hesitate a bit from shooting and allow the defender because the defender had already thrown himself there that was another chance there was another chance too that kudo's got that I think the goalkeeper came in early to what they call it stop it and all of those chances came in the second half because in the second half somehow the black stars felt that they need to be a bit more adventurous because they can't afford to drop points or lose the game but then Daniel makes a very important point you look at the first half the few counterattacking opportunities that n had I'm telling you we could have taken like three e go there's one very chance that they just needed a bit of quality up I'm telling you from the left wing a ball was swanging into the penalty area and all the guy had to do was to Vol it and I was thinking give this maulu that's his name right maalu give it to him and you see the net shaking telling you the way the guy kicked the ball it did not go a GOI H I don't know whether if on this show I've ever had a serious person look you know what the the what you sometimes you're unable to record the noise the net makes but I've been close to a net when what noise will you makeu will hit the ball and the would be the net will shake will give you some serious I don't know whether you know but what shocked me and for me that was a lack the black stars got the guy kicked the ball in the penalty area he didn't go for a goal kick or S on target or for AIG to do some really it was actually going out for a a throw went this direction then I realized know the black stars are lucky because they had about two chances like that all from a counterattacking position and they missed to convert it and that was evident the black stars were lucky if the angolans were that good would have lost this game it got the ier and for me the worst of it all was in the dying EMB of the game the posturing of the Black Star players and how we almost conceded it was I think it was a throw in or something like that the ball was hit in there yeah three black star Defenders One n player somewhere in the midst of them and that was similarly um which game was that H there was a game like that very similar similar goal we conceded one nerian player I think a center forward or something like that and he managed to connect his head to it and he just hit the outside of the post it would have been the end of the game would have considered and lost the game and for me that was evident of the postering of the black stars and this crop of players and if you look at some of the players in there I look at them and I do not I'm not trying to remind ghanians of how we've assembled some of these players some of the players are there we have to go and beg them to come and play for the black stars all right we had to go and beg we had to beg them to play for the black stars they get the opportunity and we see the performance and it's unbelievable absolutely unbelievable one of the things that a lot of people were calling for is that look some of the agian players in the black stars need to pave way for the young players you look at this squad I mean it's relatively a young Squad this is what ghanians have been calling for you know thank you for your service Andre are you thank you for your service what do you call it even some have started saying to Jordan are you thank you for your service everybody and understandably so because these players is time for them to take over the button has been handed over to you and this is the kind of performance you're putting up and that is why people are questioning the level of commitment these guys have to the black stars because it does appear that they don't seem to understand what it means to Dawn the Black Star jesses and maybe maybe if they never understood it I'm sure they saw the visuals from the game you know post the game against Angola post the game against Angola what the fans did at the sports Stadium though unacceptable but it highlight the very Cent the black Gan people attached to the black SS and want the demand of you that's why D makes the point that look even if you go and draw let us see some some some some commitment let us see some some desire in the game for instance I watch Fatar Saku I wouldn't call out players but I was fat Saku in the enti of the game and I cannot point out one take on he did or one chance he created to be honest there was a moment that when elu came on he gave a pass I could not I was like who who are you giving the ball to like is it everybody's playing however they like or they're just trying to show us that yeah they've got skills was it was it the was it the P Daniel was doing comment he said he cannot describe it and all he can say is oh it did not make sense it absolutely not make sense so there is something fundamental about these black star players to be fair to OT I watched the game and he could get a sense of what he's trying to get the guys to play the kind of idea he's trying to implement you could get a sense you could get glimpses of it but it does appear that like we make mention of in terms of his changes sometime he makes them late and we ask questions even when he makes them it becomes problematic the question about Bron I'm like why is Bren playing on the wings why on Earth is he playing on the wings bring him in the middle you know Center forward let Jordan I you play from the left wing and try and you know he can do CA some fouls drag players into the penalty area let him do something but you going and put him on the wings and that's questionable absolutely questionable he doesn't make substitutions early we ask questions when we ask questions he answers them by bringing in you know making substitutions and throwing players to certain areas that becomes really questionable but but can we contextualize the commitment angle so instead of saying the players are not committed because showing up alone and accepting to play is commitment look but can we cont from the angle of hunger whether they do not feel the hunger to play for the country or whether when they are on the pitch and the game is ongoing they feel that okay because there was an incident where one of the players appeared to be a bit frustrated by the fact that he was waiting for a pass the pass didn't come instead of chasing he began to walk on the pitch and and all that yeah can we can we look at that and say these players don't understand the hunger aspect of the game instead of saying commitment look that's why you know when I was trying to use fine synonymes for what I was trying to express I said it's either commitment or desire so maybe the best word would be be desire because standing up is reflection of the fact that they want to play for Ghana is understandable however is their postering on the field that we find it really problematic and that's why we talk about the fact that we need to ask questions of their desire because you were just giving us a record what was the last time black stars had this kind of record started an afon qualifier that has to be at the back of your mind because the black stars are coming back from two very abysmal afcon performance that has to be at the back of your mind and you are starting an a qualifying campaign watch they qualify went to the tournament performed poorly saw the reaction of ghanians and you are starting an afcon qualifying campaign lose against Angola Sports Stadium for the first time in 24 years and everybody said it was a pitch Fair understood go back to Morocco not go back but go to Morocco and then you pick a draw you're winning by one go to n you don't try to protect the the goal you don't increase the lead and you go and draw the game look if for anything at all we should be seeing them apologize on their social media platforms and if for anything at all look the SEC the second time you are coming to take over the job even some asked questions whether indeed you should be the person to be leading as ETA Chris came to do his bit we give it to him you saw it you heard it you've come to take over now you got first good wins against Central African Republic and against Mali gave us real excitement of course understandably that raised our expectations told and we're told his comeback that's a tip of the I back of his comeback absolutely tip of the iceberg we are getting deeper into the iceberg and what are we doing first laws in 24 years OT needs to sit up and the players you see and we need to have this kind of conversation passionately nobody says we should say dispassionate this is not Chelsea Chelsea I don't have sticks in it but you know so we can be very fle the players play we have to say passionately for the players to understand that Ghana knows nothing but a win the last two afan performances of the black stars have been abysa have that the back of our mind so when you are qualifying for the afon you the qualification I don't have any problem reach there Morocco is it happening in December understand right de start on December 21 Morocco first game let us all wait and prove to us that you're ready to do something different but if qualifying process this what doing do Shak Shak Shak is unacceptable and every ghanian out there who's angry is understandable and gradually it's making people lose lose you know love for the black stars and this whole campaign to try and bring back the love this kind of performance cannot encourage it so a lot needs to be done OT you got a very good pit in Morocco you fail to deliver so when you come back when you come back I think the next time we playing is in oob I've put in a request to interview him maybe if the Ghana Football assist you're playing in October World Cup qualifier noon afon qualifier so uh the next game and just to mention Angola have six points in the group they won two against two Sudan have got three point Ghana has got one n have got one and you know what done we've G hope and giv Sudan hope and even Angola now they will feel like well it's us and any other person you know and we must never be the next the next outing is against Sudan yeah come back home in fact we could finish October with Angola having 12 points because they are in a double header with ner one in Morocco one inanda favorites for both games Okay um kilan mbapp Angel is sending us a message and this one I'm I am appealing to her husband to love sports aan mbapp Angel loves sports and the husband doesn't like sports come on that's that's not possible clear mbapp you need to give your your husband something special so that he begin to like sports hello good evening I've missed the show for almost a month now and I'm happy to see you all again my husband doesn't like sports and I do he likes to watch news but today I didn't allow him to watch his news now Mondays at 9:00 p.m. is for Sports Zone in my home yes K mbapp angel thank you oh M give her the remote let her control the remote on Joy Prime charie I beg you when the game started 21 seconds F isyak simple head like this I don't understand Simple Head and the B into land on shoulder or something that was a chance simple head drop your mind no because no like I'm just playing back the situation the ball went past the last Defender there was nobody there if he can't first time he a is too hard down on your chest simple finish down on your test the defender by the time he recovers but you've already taken the shot I'll come back I'll come back to you good even evening um Decay DEC and Decay show me your eye boy is that ey boy you have a boy oh okay I see okay you've seen it okay show me your ab boy as um this SP from Amman mutala in Asami and this one good evening guys if the black stars must improve up front creating chances and scoring goals kudus must be put to strike or on the right wing he likes holding onto the ball unnecessarily they that is uh wide men or wide midfielders are pushing the strikers our performance was very poor Jacob Tia from tamale and this one delay against ner when a country like Ghana was one goal up from Gala inside Zam City and then good evening Sports Zone it is hard times for ghanians to support the black stars at the same time support House of Oak and Manchester United has of Oak fan to be seated here I know he has of o F you want to [Music] disagree oh but the man Ang is quite an interesting one you were not here when man united collected wo from Liverpool I was no way you were not here you were not set no well I should have been here so he said that it is hard time to be to be supporting the black stars heart of FK and man you hey char you know what you could go hospital that one they say SAU said that all the people in the hospital and they they have issues he'll be fine you'll be it's m you so black is causing it so he says that remember to say a prayer for them because they are not in normal times greetings to all Chelsea fans in China China in the upper east region of so I'm Castro Steve from China and this one greetings from Kon Akra I'm Santi a Football Scout Daniel S who comes from bukom Akra was the only Nigerian tormenting our Defenders Boi Dosa and Abu kamasu which is n yakubu n was part of Gham 17 team that went to Gabon for the under 17 afcon and were in India for the under 17 FIFA World Cup in fact a teammate of Muhammad kudus during that tournament and danad Ibrahim and danad ibraim as well and the likes of there was one Muhammad U IM AK ibim yes Eric was your captain yeah you got SHP memory this was what 2017 2017 about what s years ago it was in October 2017 that was when the tournament was played and um he says that um B and abas which is would't even get opportunity to play for the black stars if they were still waiting for Ghana caller this sounds very true and this one please explain this taxes to me how is it that always our first half performance is a bisar and some few Improvement in second half which kind of tactic is that assuming you meet a strong Contender you will concede 5 n in the first half we're taking a quick break when we come back we are bringing you Guinness March day disappointment for disgrace pitchit what is pitch disappointment for disgrace Kim how are you I can't be fine you can't be fine how will I be fine why why you not fine but I will still be positive ah then is back and you're not fine our thinking is in line you know that it be correct but even do you know that in in life in every situation there's a positive so what know which situation do you find yourself right now we are looking for the positive just think about a situation that there's no positive and I'll let you know this positive D standing in front of you is not positive very positive ah who told you right now have I told you I'm not positive he's the one saying it me I know Daniel is positive every day hello everyone this is g m day that and ab Kim B I standing by to good M [Laughter] gentlemen d M do you know something philosopher MH it's not about philosophy do you know there's positive in death ah but who died nobody needs to die but there's positive in death if there what is the positive those who fear there's no positive in death they know they are going to the other side but me I am not going there I am going this way I am coming to show the people something you know this game I see Guin down there there wow wow I didn't know there was some wow said many Guinness match day yeah Guinness match day so what did you expect to be here uh Guinness this guy see give my me yes I was saying there's positive in everything in life okay even in this shamb performance there's positive we just need to build on it it's just that when there's more positive we don't build on it and sort of go for downgrades after all look at what we did in the June World Cup qualifi yeah if we had taken up that momentum and built on it by this time we should have been giving n like seven at least so that is minimum seven minimum yes but now we don't even know where we free but said there positive yes there's positive so let's focus on the positive the positive is that if you're looking at how the black stars are playing and how ghanians want the team to be playing and how we've identified our teams mhm we said we want to play a gr football okay or yeah if you looking at how we've performed at the afcon mhm all the three group stage matches we played there yes talking about possession all the teams there K Egypt and then mozambik MH Ked outplayed Us in possession about 53% and won again against Egypt the same thing about 58 around there and really yes and they beat we drew 22 and the game that we were leading into the ATC for some minute 89th minute minut Moz against Mo they out played at 61% wow yes and this game it's just n but if you looking at all those teams mam they no say any higher than n and these things when you are looking at them the kind of play that they having in them local players they sort of have some cohesion in them and when they are playing they are so difficult to break down we've just seen with n's backline and we've played 61% and 39% so that is like sort of what has improved since Oto came in in the now six right in the six competitive games he has played it is only Mali because Mali they were rated ahead of us that is like at that time we played them they were like 53 or 53 in the FIFA rankings and we around 60 onwards they were the only team which have out played as since OT take over in terms of possession but the rest when you are looking around there's no positive anywhere we are playing against h n and they attempting 14 shots black stars if you're looking at their front Tre they having players from T TP Moz have you ever heard of Chief bar or something A team's name is Chimas Chimas a Chas Chas isn't MLS it's not MLS it's in Russia yeah yeah Chas the player is playing in Chas s you are playing at botom of this season he's one of the top names when it comes to shorts attempted in the Premier League only him could have attempted these six shs but the whole team is attempting six shs me see they've played their show they've attempted 14 and we attempted six that is more than two times of what we've attempted yes shows on target two and we had three they also had three that's like this is really a shame to look at big canes created we created three and miss all of them some way you don't even understand look at this this is one of the things I was talking about us having a lot of possession if you're having a possession and you don't do anything with it what is the essence of having possession your your brother is standing in front of you yes Dan Dan see ah didn't say it was a positive he said that the possession is a positive so if you have if you're having more of the ball it's a positive but if you are not using it for something that will help you win the game it's sort of like a dowr 402 passes if you are looking at it that is more than half of the 402 202 where in our own half if you having the ball and you playing you're playing it in your own half how are you going to score joking I'm serious check 2022 of the 42 passes we attempted we're all in our own half no so Daniel Daniel tell us what does this literally mean as we were playing the ball in our own house Z Zig Salis Zig Zig in some way so take that again Zig sal sal some things they are difficult to understand but anyway if they if they are hearing and they are listening we don't want them to do anything just show that even if you lose and you are playing like you are willing and you are showing commitment nobody will blame you for it but Charlie the te where the some way let's move to the next one now let let's look at the performances of the individual players um I think the first of them will be muhamed kud if you are building a team what you have to do is we are looking at some building the team around some individual players because every team you are building there are some key components in the team that will if they function well the team is all will function well Mohamed kudus let's look at first of all come to DBL it's it's something that don't really some people don't rate it a lot but if you are looking at it in the Premier League this season there were only two play players who have completed six dribbles in a single game and Mohamed kudus is one of them last season the whole of Europe was a player that has contri completed the most dribbles even 2024 alone is the the the the player who has completed most DS he's the one and this game just one of them credit to him for providing the assist but after that the rest when he carries the ball and you see him going it's just like he's running into River see it you was it a pitch I don't know hey created the guy shock just one no just number 10 just to go back on what you said about the 22 passes being in our yes you know kudus had the second least touches of the Outfield players play I think apart from SE SE had 33 had 34 so basically our Defenders and goalkeeper touching the ball majority of the time our forward players were just get the B isolated one so so indeed let's come back to to the point zigis Al Al Zig so one thing I actually didn't mention is that uh n Ted the ball about 14 times in inside Ghana's Penalty Box and the black stars I think about around eight or something how if you not going into the so with 61% to possession you talk about eight times eight times I'm not sure I'm not so sure about but it's not more than that it should be between 8 and 10 and N attaching the ball 14 times if Al show showed us something in that game it means that the goalkeeper is not so great a why were they not shooting SE as I said this when he's so good with both his feet in Kumasi I'll go to him don't worry let me touch on par I think I think say you go to him no get to him even but in this chaos we've seen that there's some creditable performances from some of the players look at the performances of party 63 passes completed that is the most in the game and this is what I'm really impressed with final T passes it's not a lot of Premier League games that you go and see thas part putting 18 balls into the final T so I think he was decent in the game but I he could have done better but this is decent from him ACC create long balls we were seeing that even as they were trying those short short passes as Daniel was talking about he was doing okay with trying to when he picked out I think he was the one who picked out inaki Williams and the ball went out narrowly so it's some positive performances for him but overall he could have done better so let's move to the next one Ali the goal scorer the goal scorer credit to him when you are playing his first goal for Ghana but forcing him I don't really think deploying him as left back was the best way he could function in the team Christin was Christin man's name has stuck in my head because of the performance we witness he has tormented as to my d [Laughter] his ghost is still here he's still hunting me see the thing is that I felt that if U had deployed a bory Ali would have functioned better than him deploying he did okay as as a left back because this season that is the position his Club to is deploying him three games he has played there two of them as a left back and playing as a left back the last game he came so short a lot of times but in this game he was okay but still the E efficiencies of playing as a right sided player as left back shown but in the game he scored a goal created um a big chance and also one tackle as right sided Defender it's not so great but let's move to this one this is where my emphasis is going to be that is SEO this is really appalling to see you I can you see this I see zero shot zero touch in opposition box one accurate pass crosses zero shorts zero the player that will be among the top five players taking shorts in the Premier League to score against n zero zero and he was playing against a CH player it's hard zero chances created zero shots attempted touches in the opposition box our Winger Char I don't believe open a read evidence based we need evidence here crosses is the Winger the two it means that the two Wingers we have in this game SE and fat fat completed just one cross one successful yeah that was within the first two minutes of the game and SE zero what was he doing in Kumasi even on those cramp crampy bumpy page he was still able to I felt that in Kumasi his ball carrying was really good now you could run on a just take it like you saw tatan tracks M tatan tracks you could confir oh God I don't lie so so so look at this you me I did my Kim didn't even add all I did my I did my you can you hang on hang on what did he not add oh dispossess one off size two I think me I'm charitable I am charitable that's why so look at this example me I did my Village I am running 100 m m 9 something B you then take me to par H I go run 11 where is run commentary charie I go run 11 something how can you be running 9. something at my Village and they will take you to Paris Onan tracks you and you're 11 maybe the sun was helping you speed up some way what will you okay that is Guin Mar day fento has just joined us fento welcome to Guin Mar day thank you how are you than thank you very much you see the example that Kim is giv it's entirely possible they will take him to Paris from his village go around what do you want who invited you what do you want here do you know why why unless you tell us because he has never seen T time before so when he St on but we but him know him know where did he come from he was playing on something that is a same as what he was flowing on today and he feel yes have you not heard have you not heard this before that the Village People when they running good and they put them on the tatan tracks then suddenly their feet feels different it feels funny so they can't run they can't in fact they can't even run with the spikes it's not true then if you are talking to talk to him [Laughter] directly that is the end for day please that's the end for day he just he just shot us is a Kenyan Runner Honestly though honestly the analysis that Karim Daniel just did on the game I think it's a massive indictment on this black stars team and he goes to reaffirm what Daniel said earlier in his very at the very beginning in his submission I think Oto has lost a lot of credit from this game because I have been one of those people that was ready to give him the benefit of the doubt and what I wanted to see was consistency and if there's one thing about 's teams the most consistent te about 's teams they inconsistency that's the only consistent thing I want to see evidence that take that again the most consistent thing about OT team is their inconsistency inconsistency yes and I'm saying that we all want continuity we've all preached that we change the Blackstar cooches too frequently in fact the black stars are the only team on the African continent that since 1982 has gone to every single afcon with a different coach except in 2015 and 20177 so for a 40-year period Ghana has only gone to backto back afcons with the same coach once and that was Abraham Grant 2015 2017 every other afcon 82 84 86 88 19 92 94 96 98 2000 2002 2 2004 we didn't qualify 206 208 2012 13 15 17 and then come to 1921 23 we've gone to every afcon with a different coach except in those two editions in 2015 and 2017 it is unacceptable so so in that sense in ense only ABR Grant has been the technical man who's been privileged to go to two afcons with the black us absolutely in a 40-year period can you believe this and I'm telling you that the problem with that is the result because if you look at all the coaches that have won the afcon recently mu look at it how long was B in charge of Algeria before they won the afon how long was Cece in charge of senagal before they won the afcon how long was the Morocco coach in charge of the team before the one the afon a certain level of consistency is needed granted there have been outliers so I am very much in favor of consistency but the overriding theme in all of those other coaches that have been at the home for a considerable number of years before getting success is that they've shown signs yeah look at Al to point to his example but Al he said just wasn't there for the eight years while performing abysmally he was making progress he was qualifying for afcons he was getting into knockout stages he was going to every World Cup 2018 they were there and then the following World Cup 2022 they were there they show consistency F hang on a moment I I need to sign out H Guinness match day and come back to so hold on on to those thoughts Kim I just want to sign out on on G's M day on the numbers that you you you brought for us here I I fento has just provided a bit of context to those numbers but it's quite scary that the the the national team that is revered by many ghans and even in fact some neutrals would be producing such quotequote shambolic numbers you see wait why is it good not good is not a fact why do you have to say symbolic or it's not symbolic we are doing symbolic like what you are saying is not factual so I'm asking do you think it's symbolic or not why are you doing like just like saying it's just like saying respectfully respect for me that the thing is when you look at some of these things it's like you don't know what to make of it when you take on a team like Mali you're able to win away away and it's some way but spiritual um spiritual we need to go and see the Gods in band B we don't we can't deal with this problem it's un understandable no but hear that he said that God in B they cannot deal with the blar problem but you see but the point the point the point Karim was just stressing on is is really important he says that does no understand how the black stars will go to Mali come from behind Mali F to capacity and win the game then go to Morocco not in the jail Morocco neutral ground empty literally empty stadium and and Anto s cannot even play a shot on time a sh not onget he even play ballon the ball count as one he so it's it's difficult it's really difficult quite quite unexplainable gentlemen if I were if I were mhm this is what I would have done okay Michel once told me a story about some Ghana Striker I think I've told Daniel that story they went to uh Gabor to play a World Cup 2010 qualifier and they fielded this Striker for the first time he was making his debut first five minutes he got the ball Center asan was here hunari is here pass the ball we are building up play no he just stood from the center and shot the ball over the bar into the STS and then as ask him Champion why why pass the ball oh confidence gentlemen thank you very much next Monday we will bring you another edition of Guinness Match Day Kim thank you very much thank youel thank you so you wanted me to model that's why confidence confidence but before I trated your thoughts you were on the trajectory of how the uh senior national team or should I say the leaders of Ghana Football has not been consistent in terms of our technical ha and you build up to justify the likes of Al CC um being at the helm of their national teams for a while and that ultimately culminated in the success winning the afon for the first time when they were in Cameron about 2 years ago um they have worked to justify more time because the signs were quite clear people could look at Cel and go like okay this is a team on the right path he came in qualified them to the World Cup in 2018 won uh was in the final of the afcon in 2019 the following year he won the afcon went to the World Cup 2022 made it to a round of 16 and an order uh he justified that uh the the leadership of the sagales fa Augustin Sango and Co should give him time to continue but if you look at our technical team members over the years we often have them failing in fact if Ghana is not able to qualify for the afcon I'm not too sure ghanians would actually be happy that OT should continue as head quach right now I have messages coming through from our viewers saying that OT should be sacked and that's exactly you just made the point for me that while we all advocate for continuity the continuity and the time has to be ended and at the moment or to other is not doing enough to justify that Contin that continuity is deserved and for me I think the only thing that is important is to show a certain level of consistency and musba is right you cannot beat Mali away and then come and lose to n year in Morocco or go and draw against Niger Morocco lose at home against Angola it cannot be happening while we accept that maybe the team is going through a certain transition we also have to accept that this is a quality enough team it is not possible that Sudan would meet Niger and beat them which players in the Sudan national team do you know in today's starting lineup for the Blackstar they had five players who are starters at English Premier League teams how are they not good enough to beat Sudan we have since he's been back he's played six matches this team has conceded 10 goals in his first thing in 12 games they considered 15 why is he not fixing the defensive issues in this team they have been glaring the team has a very a very big habit of conceding very late goals in the game against Nigeria Nigeria scored an 84th minute goal then we played Uganda or was Uganda for Nigeria then Uganda they considered an 802 minute goal when we played against Central African Republic we considered a 93rd minute goal against Angola we considered a 93rd minute goal today against uh uh uh ner we considered an 84th minute goal how is that possible how does that keep happening lack of concentration in the final minutes of the game isn't possible or maybe structural changes that he makes late in the game that tends to affect the result because it's a part it's clearly established and yet he's not fixing the problem that's his job then you look at the other people he had supporting him why aren't other people seeing this so for me I think there is no justification whatsoever there's no excuse whatsoever for today's result absolutely no excuse the coaching was bad the performance the application the commitment levels from the players itself was bad granted we have so many other issues in our football and we've all explained that a lot of the issues stem from maybe your youth football we haven't had a proper transition of any youth players to the national team in a long time the same thing can be said about our local League there's no contribution of our league to our national teams so all of that goes to affect commitment at a certain level and this is how it works because the players that are playing at the national team now what sense of Duty do they have to the to to the to the National court because the sense of Duty is inculcated at Youth Level yeah because then they owe the country a certain Allegiance because the country contributed in a certain way to a certain extent to their careers but the current Squad of players that we have how many of them can you genuinely say the country contributed to their careers and and and this quite an interesting point you are making uh uh EV go back to New Zealand 99 then we can talk about Argentina 2001 then we go to the 2009 under 20 World Cup which was staged in Africa Egypt you realize that a a core of the national team that brought at a certain level of success had gone through our youth ranks M and also yes and not just going through the youth ranks our youth ranks actually give them the platforms to launch their career now with the current players how many of them can you say the national team is the reason they are where they are in today's lineup the same as the lineup in previous game only two players have played for the Youth teams and even those two players are Academy products who would have done well either way even without the national team and I'm talking kudus Muhammad and aigi fito all of the other players that played none of them played for any of our youth national teams so the country in a way did not contribute anything to this for these players careers so I ask you the question where will their loyalty lie first national team isaku as well was part of the the the setup F isaku played for the black stars okay played for the under 20 yes at the under 20 afcon they won the AFC so there is him there is kudus and then there's aigi that is three out of 11 it's unacceptable in the past you would have had maybe three players who have not represented Ghana at Youth Level in the national team every other member of the team would have played for the national team at a certain level so they owe the country a certain level of Duty a certain level of commitment a certain level of loyalty at the moment with the current Squad we have they listen and I don't doubt their motivation that when they play for the national team they want to win no professional footballer goes out there where's a national team JY and wants to lose but there is a certain Consciousness that they move with and that and in that Consciousness their commitment first and foremost is to their careers before anything else so when it's time to put that crucial leg in that crucial tackle in that could potentially be dangerous to their careers or be debilitating to any of their careers they're not going to do it so those issues exist however having said that we still have a good enough quality in this team to be beating teams like n away from home and Angola at home and I tell you when the fixture list came out there were only two fixtures that you could put your finger on and say these are two matches that Ghana would get three points from and that is the ner game away and our home game because there's nobody out there not you not me not Daniel who was confident that Ghana would go and beat Sudan in Sudan or Ghana would go and beat Angola in Angola so now we didn't win against nja we didn't win at home we're not beating Sudan away or beating Angola away so we are in a very precarious situation we never thought we could beat Mal but we've beaten the f I just want due to time I just want us to wrap up the conversation well the thing is we have history of beating Mali we don't have history of beating Sudan in I to the 201 when we went there to B mat and then K scor I think that was that's what I said I said we have history of be Mali we don't have the same history at be Angola away in Angola so how do Ghana get their afon 2025 qualification back on track win the remaining four matches they made the job difficult for themselves and but they have to deliver if there's anything I can point to I can say well at least if for nothing at all Oto has shown that he can get the difficult results like he did against Mali when no one expects it we don't expect him to get the results against sidan but he should get it that's the only way because if OT doesn't qualify this team for the afcon he has to go it's the least because while you're I'm there certain guarantees that have to be made in order for us to see that you're in the on the right path not making the simply means he's not on the right path okay um let me come back to the studio to Daniel cron and Rak mus but before I you that good evening seniors it is a show or program you have to Tel us if not I'll play with you uh he said this is disgusting GFA is our problem every all the time we bling the GFA this country is under Cur in everything I'm Franklin yaoi with my wife Emilia if Foy watching live from konongo bless you all thank you the whole family is watching we appreciate and this one also says Danny please take it easy don't stress yourself D take it easy don't you mention the person's name yeah he didn't add his name oh why why I send the message please send the message you want to D wants to know you don't worry I'm not stressed out good evening guys Daniel please the chance inaki had in the early Embers of the game he was in an offside position had he scored it would have been offside and please where is you wanted to hear what you have said didn't need to score before from inside please sack now he has no experience good evening to you and your crew makito from what SEI I don't know if I get a pron pronunciation right up forgive me if I didn't it said the Ghana black stars players are not serious at all H Ghana Black Star good evening I am Adams watching you live from in fact in my C opinion tomorrow should be National morning of Ghana Football so that it can serve as a wake up call to our leaders this National disaster gentlemen I ask f a question how do we got Ghana's qualification back to 2025 on track let me start with Daniel how do we get it back on track why how do we get back on not be doing that what must be done what must be done to secure those victories no I I I think it's about the attitude attitude I like that word genuinely I think we have the players we have the players um I'm a fan of OT he disappointed me today but I'm a fan of OT and I feel he can get the job he he can make a me against Sudan but look Sudan will be difficult especially because of Quia so you have to pray that Quia and his side have a bad day because to be frank um this black stars team is not one plus one is two it's not what you see on paper you can never really tell the team show the day so whichever team shows up on the day to be frank I think based on recent events we also need to pray that Sudan are not on their day m b thank you same it's it's all of our attitude you know there was there was a video I saw of OT after the game against Angola SP after he went to do have the post game presser came to sit at the VIP area with um hry sanum and I think he got to see the distraction that was taking place on the field and the video tell he was a very very worried man and the distraction that was taking place on the field he seemed to have gotten the message the Gans were not having happy when he came when he was reappointed so many people had their own questions about whether indeed he should be returning Etc of course he started with two friendlies he didn't get result people accepted that they friendly so no problem they were just trying to steady the team he got two competitive games he produced the results against Mali against Central African Republic World Cup qualifi critical he got the result against Angola nobody do you know OT actually said he was surprised he never thought Ghana would never Ghana will lose against Angola nobody thought Ghana would lose against Angola because that game even some people had tuned off because they thought it would end goess then against ner we pulled this draw against Sudan he knows what he's going against because Sudan we're hoping they can get at least a draw against Angola but they ended up losing the game they've gotten their most important three-point at home against ner and as far as Sudan is concerned they want to consolidate that very strength they've got at home to get the result at home Andia this knows this black stars he's also to be in and out of the black stars he knows this black stars and absolutely understand the man he's going to face we might sit here because we have questions about cus a and how he managed the black stars and because of that underestimate is his ability his tactical ability to study these black stars a mapa strategy to contain them he knows this black stars and he knows what he can do to you know hurt this black stars at home in Caron he knows what he can do he's see the game against Angola he see the game against ner and OT knowing this needs to speak to the players absolutely need to speak to the players he needs to get the players to understand in there in their mind to understand what is at stake because in October what ghanians are waiting for is a response and I dare say is a response not to the performance against ner but to the performance against Angola the loss against Angola Gans are waiting for that response in fact dating back all the way to the afcon when we exited poorly ghanians are still waiting for a response the matches in July gave us a glimpse of the response we were looking forward to but Gans were not particularly happy we still waiting for a response all right the game against Sudan what better way for you to respond by defeating Sudan who are coached by KIA proving to Kia that so who should be more motivated Kia should be motivated that Ghana has look sud or black stars you have be motivated has nothing to lose Sudan at the moment they don't even play in professional League because the country is in a state of War yeah football is their only source of respire is the only day in Sudan when the rebels and the government military forces put there their gowns their guns and say let's all watch football and after 90 minutes they they back on the battlefield because it's War Zone in Sudan today it's real war zone and today some of the Sudanese clubs are playing in another you know country stuff like football so in fact is not even getting players b in Saudi yeah he's not even getting players from the local league so he just managed to assemble players and he's because so that he can get some of them to be competitive for his National side he call go here you understand so Sudan has nothing to lose for them they know that going to the afon is is like is a miracle because they don't know how it could happen for a country that is war Tor can make it to the afcon so in October the black stars need to respond October 7 right October 7 and October toes yeah 7 and 13 73 me we go to Caron we must get the result we must defeat Sudan show them that look Ghana is back we must come to B Sports stadium and make amends pacify the B Sports stadium and ensure that we get the victory six points in October is a m anything other than that then we have two games remaining a way to what Angola and home to ner and Angola you draw in you and lose n you come and draw is mean we out and have you ever heard since me I was born and started following the black stars and the Black Star players need to keep this at the back of their mind I have never had the black stars feeli to qualify for an afcon all I've heard is that they play semi-final somebody missed a penalty they couldn't win the trophy the only question we've been asking is when will the black Stars win an afcon title we've never questioned the black black star ability to qualify for the afcon and last games they faed to qualify was 2004 yeah and two games into the qualifiers we are wondering 2004 we are wondering can the black stars qualify OT tell the boys can they qualify no we need to call but I need just R the conversation there was um one moment I need to touch on you're a very good friend Cristiano Ronaldo that he should makeer we asking the thing like you are surprised at 39 mhm the guy is still a monster in fact about 900 career goals and he scored in what competition the UEFA Nations League UFA Nations League yes the people in fact even against Scotland recently not 91 it's 91 91 you are limiting it it's 91 International goal recognized by FIFA the highest goal scorer in FIFA history the rest of them who were taking and taking their under 20 under 19 under six goals ones are not part this is FIFA recognized gos 901 when tell at the during the those who were telling him to retire because For the First Time in 11 consecutive major competitions he didn't score a goal so he should retire how can you draw a conclusion like that hang on when you sayif go who initiate with that one nobody's true isn't Roar who went to tell us that he has scored thousand goals he was speaking when he was in class the goals he was scoring he has added allar they said gr up according to FIFA records a governing body he hasn't reached th nobody has reached th but that the the 99 left is coming but but actually since Ronaldo 10 30 he scored more goals post 30 than before he was 30 how did that happen Benjamin but the older he gets the better the better he becom so again for say should retire because he scored in 11 consecutive competitions then in one competition he doesn't score so he should retire how can you draw a conclusion like that the person who was their leading scorer before the competition and post their competition he's retired because the competion he didn't score he's retired he's holding them back how can you draw a Cong like that how M how did you draw that conclusion I mean I didn't draw like conclusion why why is a disclaimer no I didn't draw like I I think yes to some extent he will retire and when he's ready to retire he and he's made it that look when he's ready to retire he will make it know at the moment as long as his career continues to blow some in Saudi Arabia he will continue to play for Portugal and what is even fortunate for him is that he's got a coach who is always ready to welcome him all right and whenever he gets to play he proves why he deserves to you know be in the team he scor the goals and that's what he's expected of him currently in the Portuguese lineup all right but what he's done what Ronaldo has done cannot be underestimated it's absolutely incredible and I cannot see any play and that's that's what we really need to you know draw people's attention to that I cannot point to any player within this generation who can match up to what Ronaldo has done like is there any player within this generation up and cominging players who you can point to and say that this player is capable of reaching the level that Ronaldo has got to no player and if you can draw that conclusion that is when you begin to appreciate what this guy has done and look he's made a lot of people to fall in love with football and the day he decides to retire I'm sure we will hold a special service here Ronaldo ceremonial service I'm sure special special ceremonial service just to you know honor him for what he's done to football all right while touching on Ronaldo I'm sure we are leaving here but we cannot leave without talking about what happened over the weekend in the Ghana Premier League the GF is watching I I I I saw last last week last week many of my viewers warned me for talking abouta PR League it appears tired see if the J is watching all right I want to take a qu I don't know if they've seen mu post on Facebook look Mark the principles of marketing are very simple right if the product is bad don't project you no you don't promote it you don't you don't show it to I think my professor might have read he be proud of me professor product is bad if your product is bad you hide you see I'm talking under that's how it is you hide it so that people don't see it if you have a very stop kid when people come to the house when the elders come to the house they ask you oh do you have any sun all of them ask you say then you bring him you everybody and no you don't do that yeah you don't and be showing off right what we saw over the weekend I'm sure in terms of the coverage of the terms of the coverage of the GH premier league is apping this cannot be the standard over the last decade or so we've seen the standard as far as the coverage it was terrible absolutely Terri I'm telling you and it was so terrible and what was exciting about it was that it was free to Air however the to air shouldn't have even existed at all because it was really bad did you see the pitch did you see the ball it was bad really there was no replay there was absolutely nothing and in fact bad okay no and and they need to work on it like seriously look look I don't know of course I'm afraid that made the point on K Ben I saw the quote he says St time is owing them an excess of $1 million and they yet to pay and so because of that that relationship is completely over but the GH but the point is that the deal actually expired they expire and they o them and they haven't but it is critically important that GH Association finds a way to get coverage of the Ghana Premier League better because you can't afford to do this this is not entertainment the essence of football is to provide ENT entertainment and all those who watch the games on the various free to a channels I don't know anybody who can point to the fact that they were entertained by what they saw Zero entertainment if it was comedy I don't to mention some comedians in but it was not funny at all so something needs to be done we know the GFA is in a very critical situation now but it's important if the state broadcaster you need to sit down GTV and find a way to get them to take over this and do it because this is your topmost product when it comes to Ghana football and if you can't get it right we big mess so M I want to go to F to just wrap up for me in within 30 seconds the program is good you should hide it now telling somebody so so one of the basics there are two things strategic management and to F or is Hope yes okay he's on F I was going back to the lecture hall but let let me come to you fent in in what let me say in 30 seconds um hey I was going to marketing class you know I'm a marketing student right wasting your time so F touch on the Ghana Premier League for me what we all saw it's it's it's quite bad yeah it's awful and I think the GFA need to find a solution ASA the current Arrangement they have is not the way to do it the Premier League footage they have no replay the images are terrible we don't see lineups there's absolutely nothing professional about this and this is supposed to be a professional leak go back to Star times and even if you have to pay them money for the production for you to then distribute to these television station Partners do it because clearly these current ones don't have the capacity to produce quality images okay that is how it has to be done if you have to P our for the production do it okay thank you 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