Ghana midfielder Boateng blasts referee for Zambia defeat
Posted On Saturday, 9th June 2012
Derek Boateng believes Ghana were handed a raw deal by referee Med Kordi
Derek Boateng has launched a scathing attack on Tunisian referee Med Kordi for Ghana’s Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifier defeat to Zambia on Saturday.
The Black Stars never recovered from a 15th minute goal scored by Zambia captain Christopher Katongo from inside the box.
Ghana staged a strong comeback in the second half and dominated play but could not snatch the equalizer.
Two Ghana players were brought down at the edge of the box as they dribbled past the Zambian defenders.
On the first occasion, Christian Atsu was shown a yellow card when he was brought down while a foul was awarded against Harrison Afful under a similar circumstance.
Also a penalty call was ignored by the referee when a Zambian defender handled the ball in the box.
After the final whistle, the Black Stars players charged on centre man Kordi pointing fingers at some of his bad calls if had gone the way of the visitors could have turned the game on its head.
“We didn’t lose the game because we are bad. We lost the game because the last ten minutes the referee frustrated us. He was a good referee at all,” Boateng said at the post-match press conference.
“We were trying to do anything we could but he still frustrated us.
“As you could see we had two fouls at the last minute but the referee whistled against us and showed us yellow cards.
“I can’t imagine something like this can happen. Like I said before this is football, they won and we accept our defeat and we wait for the next game. ”
Ghana’s defeat means Group D has been thrown wide open with Sudan on three points yet to play Lesotho on Sunday.
Source: MTNFootball.com
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We told you that we would beat you again! Chopolopol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this man should shut his big mouth was he expectin to win or expectin favours from referees after this shambolic display especially from derek himself mmtchew
what an ass of a pig you are. No wonder you sleep with animals in your country
Zambia has always bn better than us. Even here they are coming 2 teach us a lesson. Zambia 3-0 Ghana.
bahahahahahahaha….so what? ref wasnt good so? you werent good either so masa we beg, we want to blast u pass buh, im waitin for Countryman Songo….ogyaaaaaa
DEREK BOATENG SHUT THE FUCK UP! THE OWN GOAL WAS SCORED IN THE 15TH MINUTE. WHAT WERE U GUYS DOING DANCING ADOWA IN THE MIDFIELD? FOOLISH PLAYERS. BLAME UR LACK OF TACTICAL ABILITY COACH, NOT THE REF
Zambia has always bn the giant-killers of African football,we respect but we have no fear regardless of the number of european stars u may have,CHIPOLOPOLO is the BOMB;Kumasi u going to b witness to the above statement nxt year.
kwesi appiah made two mistakes from the lesotho game and zambian game apparently most of the zambian players mostly ply their trade in africa and we have africa’s top hit man in the person of emmanuel clottey but he decides to repose confidence in fringe players like jordan and adiyah i could hold brief for jordan but adiyah plays in division two for crying out loud kwesi appiah come again as maxwel he droped his suit job for track suit instead of building a better cv with kotoko and aim to head coach he had to settle for second best this underlines how medeocre we ghanaians turn to be sometimes
its football i bet u zambian u wont colify we ar waiting 4 u in ghana.
This idiot Boeteng shud shut up they played shit and you expect to win. He thinks he is the public relations officer for Ghana. Mweene was on holiday,how many shots did you make at goal and you expect to win by miracle.just shut up and don’t blame the Ref
“We didn’t lose the game because we are bad. We lost the game because the last ten minutes the referee frustrated us. He was a good referee at all,” Boateng said at the post-match press conference.
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This guy Derek Boateng should not be called back to the Black Stars. He got a red card at the AFCON. He got a red card in the Ukraine and claimed racism, he blows up against the referee after the Zambia game and claimed he was punched by police. Why is it that some of the other players were not punched by police. Boateng is a talented player but he should be dropped, he is always shooting off comments to the media and he is not the captain of the team. Ghana is loaded with talent in the midfield the coaches should find a replacement for Boateng!
There is a saying “if it aint broke don’t fix it”. Annan was Ghana’s midfielder of choice. He came in and did his job. He is small but he got the job done. He played 90 minutes in all the world cup games and Ghana did well. We never heard a pip out of him. He just got the job done. Now we have a new coach and Annan is on the bench and Boateng is King, shooting off his mouth and getting red carded. Bring back the small giant and let him do what he does best for the Black Stars in midfield. He is not flashy like Derek but he hardly ever makes mistakes and he never got red carded with the Black Stars during the world cup even though that is one of the most physical tournaments on earth.
IT WILL B THE SAME SONG IN ACCRA,GHANA 0 ZAMBIA1 DOWN HERE RSA we luv u ZAMBIA.
THE WHOLE CONTINENT AWAITS THE ACCRA SHOWDOWN,MY PREDICTION IS ..GHANA 1 ZAMBIA 2
THIS IS WAT U GET FOR HIRING AN OPOKUNWARE GRADUATE. MAKE U GO GET DESAILLY, U BRING IN APPAIH. APPIAH CANT MASSAGE THE EGO OF THESE FOREIGN PLAYERS, YET HE CHOOSES TO RELY ON THEM. APPIAH DOES NOT UNDERSTAND COACHONG. HE WENT TO ZAMBIA WITH NO TACTICAL STRATEGY. HE JUST WENT THERE N TOLD THE BOYS:..PLAY FOR ME…
FOOLISH GUY. HE NEVER PLAYED FOREIGN SOCCER OUTSIDE GH, SO HOW ANYONE EXPECTS HIM TO COACH MOSTLY FOREIGN BORN/BASED PLAYERS BEATS ME. EVEN IF WE QUALIFY TO BRASIL, WE WILL BE OUT IN ROUND 1. APPIAH IS NOT COMPETENT FOR THIS JOB. SEND HIM TO COACH CHAN TEAM.