Ghana coach considers change in personnel and tactics to face Mali
Posted On Monday, 21st January 2013
Akwasi Appiah flanked by his players and Ghana FA boss Kwasi Nyantakyi at the press conference
By Ameenu Shardow
Ghana coach Akwasi Appiah is considering varying his team and tactics for Thursday’s game against Mali.
The Black Stars drew 2-2 with DR Congo in the opening Group B fixture of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday.
Ghana threw away a comfortable 2-0 lead to ultimately share the spoils with the Leoprds at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
The disappointing result has resurrected critics of the four-time African champions with many suggesting some players ought to be dropped in order to secure the much needed win against Mali.
Coach Appiah however says he is yet to make a decision on whether to change personnel and tactics for Thursday’s game but is something he is considering his technical team.
“Any tactic that you play depends on the opponent that you are meeting,” he said at Monday afternoon’s press conference at the team’s Garden Court Hotel.
“You look at how your opponent plays and then you would adopt your tactical play.
“Saying that, playing against Mali will depend on how we saw the game yesterday so we will sit down and plan our tactics.
“As to whether we will change some players in the team or we will keep the same team and play the same tactics will depend on our technical meeting which we will have this evening.”
Some members of the critical Ghanaian media have suggested defender Jerry Akaminko must not be fielded against Mali as his brash tackle cost Ghana a penalty for the DRC equalizer.
Others have also suggested that Kwadwo Asamoah should be moved to his more familiar central midfield role in the Black Stars rather than waste his immense talent at left-back.
What do you think about coach Akwasi Appiah’s comments at the press conference?
Should Akwasi Appiah vary personnel and tactics against Mali?
Should Jerry Akaminko be retained in the starting line up, and what of the positioning of Kwadwo Asamoah?
Make your thoughts known in the dialogue box below…
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Kwadwo Asamoah must stay at Left back… When Afful came there he almost cost us the game!!
At left back he is giving us good production! 1 goal and 2 assists in 3 matches!
True dat. Kwadwo is excelling as a left-back, both defensively as attackingly. Left-back is perfect for him!
I WISH I COULD SPEAK TO EITHER MAXWELL KONADU OR AA…
1.I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY USE KASA AT LEFTBACK. HE IS NOT A LEFTBACK DEFENDER. AT JUVE HE PLAYS AS A LEFT MIDFIELDER, SO WAT AA NEES TO DO IS MOVE KASA TO THE LEFT WING. MOVE ATSU TO THE RIGHT WING. HAVE THEM OVERLAP AS THE GAME CONTINUES. WAKASSO N KISSI BOAT CAN ALL BE USED AT LEFT BACK.
2.I ALSO DONT UNDERSTAND WHY AA USES AFFUL AS A LEFT BACK. AFFUL HAS ALWAYS PLAYED N WON TROPHIES WITH ESPERANCE AS A RIGHT BACK. SO WHAT IS THE COMMON SENSE AND REASONING BEHIND USING AFFUL AS A LEFT BACK? IS AA HIGH OR DREAMING? AFFUL’S EMPLOYERS DONT EVEN USE HIM AS A LEFT BACK, AND YOU THINK YOU SOMEHOW KNOW BETTER THAN THE PPL WHO PAY HIS SALARY? PAINSTIL IS A 80THMIN SUBS. LET HIM SIT AND MOTIVATE THE DEFENDERS. AFFUL AND AKAMINKO CAN PLAY RIGHT BACK
3. JONATHAN MENSAH IS THE NEW DEFENCE MARSHALL. HE MUST STARTS AT ALL TIMES. JONATHAN MUST START IN OUR NEXT GAME AGAINST MALI WITH AWAL AT THE 4/5. BOYE, VORSAH, AKAMINKO MUST ALL COME IN AS SUBS…..
4.
SQUADS
STARTING 11…
FATAU/ KWARASAY/ADJEI
2..AFFUL/AKAMINKO/PAINSTIL
3. WAKASSO /KISSI BOATENG
4/5..JONATHAN MENSHA/AWAL/ BOYE/VORSAH/AKAMINKO
6..ANNAN/RABIU/DEREK BOATENG
7..ATSU/ADOMAH/ASANTE
8..BADU/KASA/YIADOM/DEREK BOATENG
9/10..GYAN/CLOTTEY/YIADOM
11..KASA/WAKASSO
5.
COACHING TACTICS!
GYAN DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE CAPTAIN. GIVE THE CAPTAINSHIP TO BADU!
if the players were doing wat i have been telling them to do like lifting metal. they would be faster, stronger and would have less
CATASTROPHIC INJURIES. SO FAR LOOK AT THE STRENGTH OF THE PLAYERS WHO ARE CURRENTLY INJURED IN CAMP..VORSAH, YIADOM, ANNAN..
THEY ALL DONT LIFT WEIGHTS!
THE SCIENCE IS THERE TO SUPPORT WAT IM SUGGESTING, BUT WILL AFUOM COACH AA ADVISE THESE GUYS TO DO LIFT METAL SO THEY WONT BE
SUCEPTIBLE TO CATASTROPHIC INJURIES? NO….IF YOU ARE A PHYSICALLY FIT PLAYER. THE CHANCES OF YOU GETTING INJURED IS LESS.
YOU ALSO RECUPERATE FASTER FROM YOUR INJURIES AS WELL…MAKAA AKAAA AKAAAA..PPL EVEN INSULT ME ON GHWEB N GHSOCCERNET BCOS THEY
DONT UNDERSTAND MY POINT OF VIEW.
HW3, WHEN U LOOK AT BARCELONA. EACH PLAYER ON THE TEAM PLAYS BREAK AND PASS SOCCER. ONLY XABI AND MESSI DRIBBLE OR HOLD UNTO THE BALL.
EACH PLAYER PLAYS SIMPLE. BREAK AND PASS..2 TOUCHES, 3 AT MOST. THEY MOVE THE BALL BY PLAYING 2 TOUCH. NO PLAYER STANDS IDLE.
ALL THE PLAYERS R CONSTANTLY MOVIN AS THE PLAYERS MOVE THE BALL IN A TRIANGULAR FASHION WITH THEIR BREAK AND PASS STYLE. ITS ALL MECHANICS.
BARCELONA WILL NEVER OVERLAP A BALL FROM 7 TO 11..NEVER…
THEY DO 3 THINGS AT THE SAME TIME: PLAYERS R CONSTANTLY MOVING, PLAYING 2 TOUCHES, MOVING THE BALL IN A TRIANGULAR FASHION.
THIS MAKES THEIR OPPONENTS VERY FRUSTRATED, TIRED AND CHASING AFTER THE BALL. BEFORE THEIR OPPONENTS ARE AWARE,
MESSI HAS THE BALL AND IS ALREADY IN THE 18 YARD BOX. IF YOU ARE A DEFENDER AND ARE NOT SMART..BOOM! PENALTY OR MESSI WILL SCORE..SIMPLE!
I DONT HAVE ANY COACHING BADGES OR CERTIFICATES, BUT I WATCH BARCELONA AND THIS IS SIMPLY WHAT THEY DO. COMMON SENSE BALLIN!
MAN U, CHELSEA, REAL MADRID ARE ALL TRYING TO COPY BARCELONA’S STYLE OF PLAY, BUT THEY CANT PERFECT IT.
ITS FUNNY BECAUSE SPAIN PLAYS THE SAME STYLE, AND GUESS WHO BARCELONA AND SPAIN COPIED THIS STYLE FROM? GHANA!
THEY COPIED THIS STYLE FROM GHANA IN WCUP 2006. THE ONLY THING DIFFERENT FROM BARCELONA, SPAIN AND GH SQUAD 2006
IS STRIKING AND GOALS SCORING OPTIONS….WE NEED TO PLAY THE 532 FORMATION IN TOURNAMENTS.
YOU SEE, STRIKERS/attackers win you a match, BUT DEFENDERS win you tournamentS. AA CAN PLAY THE 4321, 442 ETC TO WIN SINGLE GAMES,
BUT IN A TOURNAMENT LIKE THIS. YOU ONLY HAVE A CHANCE IF YOUR DEFENDERS ARE ON POINT.
ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND PLAYING WITH A PROFESSIONAL MINDSET IS WAT WILL SET US APART FROM THESE OTHER NATIONS.
EVIDENTLY, WE CAN SEE THAT EVERYONE CAN PLAY THE GAME. HOWEVER, IF GBSTARS CAN
1. SHOW ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN PLAYING THE GAME AS EVIDENCE BY THEIR TACTICS AND STRATEGIES
2. PLAY THE GAME WITH A PROFESSIONAL MINDSET..THAT IS FOLLOWING MY COACHING TACTICS, LIFTIG WEIGHTS
3. GBSTAR WILL CONTINUE TO DOMINATE OVER ALL COMPETITIORS!
Are you kidding me!nobody needs to tell you to ring in changes. Its obvious you need to change the tactics going against Mali. They are more composed,discipline and technically sound. Another thing going for them is the advantage in height they have over their Ghanaian counterparts. Also make time to review with the players the two matches between these two sides at last years competition. They are beatable but we need to get the selection and tatics right. No room for errors if you ask me. Let’s go get ‘em !
I believe kwadwo Asamoah should be moved
to his usual central midfield position but Akaminko
only needs just an advice from the coach and he
will be fine.
WHERE ARE THE STUPID ZAMBIANS WHO KEPT MAKING NOISE HERE?HAVE THEY SEEN HOW ONLY TEN MEN ETIOPIANS SWINDLED THEM TODAY?THIS TEAM MAKING PROUD BEING CHAMPIONS?MY FOOT.THEY ARE YET TO MEET NIGERIA AND THE NEXT THEY ARE SHOWN THE EXIT.
Zambia is out…please change ur name, it is indecent
Zambia is in an open group, unlike you stupid Ghanian apes, we accept when our team doesnt play well and today they didnt but they came out with a draw and besides our group is open.
If you lose to mali that will be the end of u and YOU ARE LOSING with that clueless team and the most useless Ghana team ever with a guness book of records penalty miss record
No fears Mali will fall to Ghana.
Can Akwasi Appiah really handle our dear Black Stars?
He has as confused as the players. He left great players behind and now he may be regretting that decision. A player like John Mensah with Dede would have given us comfortable win.
K. Asamoah should be moved to midfield,why is j. Mensah on the bench?
When will the Luck runs out on these ugly Zambians?Playing lowly Ethiopiah(Ranked 105th) with a man down for well over 55 mins,they only escaped with a 1-1 stalemate. This was after Ethiopiah squandered a 1st half penalty.(Reminds me oft Angola 2012 )I think soon their Luck will eventually run out. There’s nothing special about Zambia,just an ordinarily side that rides on Luck,lots of good luck !But that’s about to unravel,watch!
If you watch supersport you ape, u would know that ethiopias has been ranked the most tactically displined team so far even better than your black jujus.
Ethiopia played well and deserved the draw. Zambia is not an ordinally team, and will never lose to your team, have u forgotten who gave u the ticket to go home at the 2012 AFCOn? and whos the leader in your world cup group?
mali will beat u and congo will beat niger and that will be the end of u
Fuck you. Ghanaians are the worst ugly creatures on earth. Look at your heads. Resembling dicks. You are Dickheads. That’s what we call you here in Zambia. Is it the first time you are seeing a 10 man team take on an 11 man strong team? During the 1990 world cup in Italy at the San Siro, 9 man Cameroon beat the 11 man world cup defending champion Argentine team. Argentina went on to reach the final in that tournament.
He is my first Eleven for the next game.
1. Dauda 2. Pantsil 3. Afful 4.Jonathan 5. Boye
6. Annan 7. Rabiu Mohammed 8. Badu 9. Gyan
10. Wakasu 11. Kwadwo Asamoah
Astu, Boakye Yiadom and Solomon Asante should come in as sub
NO NO NO!!!
if afful n rabiu starts, its going to be extremely difficult for us to qualify. afful is not good at all at left back n rabiu cannot play better than boateng.
however k. asamoah must play behind gyan.
drop the shirt holding defender….drop gyan or Adoma for Boakye Yiadom or Wakaso at the center forward …..we need a ruthless striker .
I think wakaso should pair Derek or Annan in the middle,aful should take the left back so kwadwo can play behind the striker. I will suggest solomon at the right back to help with the attack n counter attacking bcos has pace n can dribble as well
I don’t think we can beat Mali. A draw is a fair result
Onye gbemi
hahahahahaahaha lol hahahaha lol
ONYE GBEMI TWO TIMES
Is Gyan Really a world class striker? Please somebody answer my question. I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. Two goals to nil turns 2-2. What the heck is wrong with the coach too? He could have even defended those goals till the end because at the end of the day a win is what matters. The Ghana team lacks character, The lack attitude, the lack the winning mentality. OMG help us.
chu ,i agree with you against it will draw…i miss dede
chu ,i agree with you against mali it will be a draw…i miss dede
We will beat Mali!!
U cant compare atsu to dede,dede smelled the disgrace thats why he did nt join the team and most of the players hate him namely,annan,dereck,k.asamoah,badu and painstil
derick boateng is a waste,enoch adu kofi of fc nordsjiland will do better in that role
dede is an asshole….he s not disciplined.. discipline in team is the beginning of success…
We are going to Miss DEDE in the Mali game too,Because this guy scored a brilliant master piece against Mali by Bisecting their defense and taking on two defenders to score.WOOOOoooW!!! Before we can outwit this Malians,we need experienced and individual brilliance attackers,..This was Why Jordan should have been called in the Set up to give Gyan the Deadly balls to score……If we didnt go far in this AFCON we should blame the coach big time
GOOD THOUGHTS BY ALL, ITS TRUE MOST GHANAIAN ARE COACHES. BUT I WANT TO BELIEVE TWO MAJOR CHANGES WILL HAVE TO BE MADE IN THIS TEAM. I FOUNDED IT QUITE DIFFICULT WHY KWESI APPIAH WILL GO IN FOR ANKAMINKO AHEAD OF J. MENSAH. JONATHAN MENSAH HAS CARVED HIMSELF INTO JOHN MENSAH’S PERSONA, WITH BOTH WORLD CUP AND NATIONS CUP EXPERIENCE. HE HAS NEVER DISSAPOINTTED ANYTIME CALLED INTO ACTION. SECONDLY IN JUVE THE COACH PLAYS 3 FLAT DEFENDERS WITH ASAMOAH PLAYING AHEAD OF THESE 3 FLAT DEFFENDERS. JUVE HAS GOOD ATTACKING OPTION UNLIKE GHANA WHO CAN BOOST OF UNPREDICTABLE GYAN, WE NEED KOJO UP FRONT SIMPLE.
imagine quincy owusu in the game against DR Congo what do you think will have happened
dauda-panstil-vorsah-boye-afful-atsu-annan-badu-wakaso-asamoah-gyan this team will beat mali definetly
lol @ghana fuo, so funny, u actually believe what u wrote, that ghana @ wc 2006 inspired the barcelona/spain football? Lol, gsn, i love this place.
lol @GHANA FUO, so funny, u actually believe what u wrote, that ghana @ wc 2006 inspired the barcelona/spain football we have today? Lol, GSN, i love this place.
Vorsah for Akaminko,shift KASA to the midfield to replace Atsu,bring Kissi Boateng to the left back.Tactically bring on Atsu in the 2nd half to keep the ball & dribble and dazzle & GH will win handsomely.
Just imagine if Quincy Owusu Abeyie was in this match. He would made Congo look like an ordinary team like he did against Ivory Coast in 2008.
Do not blame the players for the tie against DR Congo, the Coach made some tactical errors and hopefully will correct them. Why is Coach Appiah always experimenting? You experiment during warm up games not the real deal. Playing Kwadwo Asamoah at left full back is a big tactical error. Players develop and hone their kills over years, you cannot just decide on a whim to move a midfielder to a defensive or full back position no matter how versatile you think they are. Awal Mohammed should play on the left full back position and K Asamoah should move to the left half and Akaminko should move to his norman right full back position and drop Paintsil. Paintsil is destroying Ghana’s passing game by playing long balls mostly to the opposing team. Anthony Anann should start and Boateng come off the bench. Dauda and Adam have both conceded two goals recently so it is time to give Adam a shot at starting. Having benched him the first game will motivate him to bring his “A” game. Every other player should be maintained in their starting positions.
If the Black stars take the lead then that should be a signal to play more defensive and counter attack. Not to withdraw completely into a defensive shell but to be more disciplined in the back and not to commit dangerous fouls in the penalty box. To be more conservative in attack mostly resort to counter attacks.
AA’s starting 11 should be made up of players who have experience playing together in previous engagements. For example FIND OUT what works best according to previous results when Vorsah pairs up with Boye or with Jonathan. The same principle should be applied to the midfield and the strikers. K Asamoah and A. Badu combine very well because they have a history from Udinese. For example Gyan plays very well with either Muntari or Dede. By now AA knows at training camp who enjoys whose company. AA you may not approve of certain players and who they like, you need to use your discretion and pick on cues that would make you WIN every game. You are not there for any other reason but to WIN. Please don’t play a player because he is polite and respectful, play them because they are ready, fast, efficient, passionate, and no nonsense. Before each match GIVE A MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH and let the players WARM UP very well. If you cannot give a motivation speech, there are several on YOUTUBE the players can watch.
God bless our nation ghana.look people is time 4 us to pray for our black stars team.look we just started the competition.and yet some of you are insulting and complaning abut the coach and the players.jerry and kwadjo are playing good.is just that some of the young players brought in are new and they have not play African cup b4 so lets pray and give them chance.and by God’s grace we shall qualify to the nst state…Asamoah gyan is good striker he will shine the game wth mali and Gods grace we will winne the match…so ltes all pray and the spirit of God will fight for the black stars Amen.Goal ghana…go…black…starsssssssssssss.Amen…i pray…the coach will bring juventus matador inspiration lovely kwadjo to midfield and jonathan at back wth boye..good one and we will winne…Amen
God don’t play football. If he did which side will He play???
lets call a spade a spade,we are coming home.im surprise surprise are still following aa and his useless squad.
It will be better if the coach analyse some of our comment and goes by it. Afful is nt a natural left back so why shld he play there, atsu shld always start from the bench that will help bcos he will be able to read the game well, k. Asamoah I have a very big problem with the coach playing him at left back, he shld know the juventus style of play is very different from dat of black stars. In juv the play with three defenders and five midfieders who help the team when defending so K.asamoah does play left back he only full back when the team is defending. The coach shld also use adam ahead of dauda. Or is it adam does pay bribe.
@ richard this not about praying for the team. The bible even say haven help those who help themselves. Just make some wrong selection and u expert to win. We were very luck we drew losing would hv been fair result for us. The tactics, selection the coach had all wrong. If he knows hw to coach we also know hw to watch. Abaaaaa
isaac vorsah should start ahead of akaminko and kwadwo asamoah should be given the free role to operate whiles kissi boateng plays at left back in that case our defends will be more reliable.
A MILLION COACHES. RELAX , SIT DOWN A ND WATCH. AKWASI IS A WINNER AND HE WILL PROVE IT. WHY DO WE CRY OUT LOUD WHEN , NIGERIA DREW, ZAMBIA DREW AND MANY MORE. THE COMPETITION HAS JUST STARTED AND AFTER ALL WE DID NOT LOOSE. WE HAVE A POINT , SO LETS SEE AFTER THURSDAY IF PEOPLE WILL CHAGE THEIR THINKING.
EVERY HUMAN IS BOUND TO MAKE ERRORS, AND SO WE LEARN AND GO ON. THE STARS NEED TO HAVE THIS SET OF DEFENCE, AFFUL AT 2, KISSI AT 3, BOYE AT 4 AND JONATHAN MENSAH OR AWAL AT 5. THIS GIVES US TWO OVERLAPPING BACKS. I AM OF THE OPINION SOLOMON SHOULD BE INTRODUCED EARLY TO BRING IN THE SPEED AND DRIBLING AND GYAN SHOULD RATHER BE THE SECOND STRIKER PLAYING BEHIND ANOTHER STRONG STIKER. ATSU SHOULD STAY AS A SUBSTITUTE. AKWASI MIGHT NEED TO INFORCE THE MIDFIELD WITH ONE CENTRAL DEFENDER TO ALLOW BADU TO BE MOVING UPFRONT.
YOU SEE LETS GIVE CONSTRUCTIVE ADVICE , NOT DISTUCTIVE AND BAD LANGUAGE.AFTER IT IS THE BLACKSTARS OF GHANA SO AS GHANIANS, WE CAN ONLY COME TOGETHER AND ADVICE AND TRY TO BE PATIENT. I TRUST THE COACH AND I BELIEVE HE WIILL DELIEVER.
which bible said that heaven helps those who helps themselves. But i do agree with u, hard work pays off.