Gyan still upbeat of Ghana's chances for 2013 AFCON
Posted On Saturday, 8th September 2012
Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan
By Ameenu Shardow
Striker Asamoah Gyan remains positive of Ghana’s chances to make the 2013 Nations Cup finals despite a below par performance against Malawi.
The Black Stars laboured to get a vital 2-0 win over the Flames at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday.
Goals from Christian Atsu and Anthony Annan early in each of the halves saved Ghana’s blushes against a team they were supposed to have trounced before their home crowd in Accra.
The Black Stars were unable to translate their superior ball possession into goals as Malawi grew more and more confident as the game wore on.
Ghana’s below par performance has raised several doubts over their preparedness to make the final tournament to come off early next year in South Africa.
But Gyan who was the stand-in captain for the day insists Ghana still holds the upper hand going into next month’s return leg in Blantyre due to its quality players.
“Yes (over qualification chances) because we have a good team, we have quality players who are playing regularly in Europe,” he said.
“I don’t know the strategy the coach is going to play but we will be ready for the game (in Malawi).”
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GYAN IS NOT CAPTAIN MATERIAL. ESP AFTER HE MOVED TO SAUDI LEAGUE. SAUDI LEAGUE IS CRAP EVEN COMPARED TO SWEDISH N MLS. GIVE THE BAND TO ANNAN OUR NUMBER 6! HE IS SHORT LIKE NANA ADOO , MORE VIM. HE SAUDI LEAGUE WILL DESTROY GYAN. HE DID WELL AT THE WCUP, BUT SINCE THEN HE HAS FLOPPED. HE PLAYED WOEFULLY AT AFCON 2012 AND THE STREAK CONTINUES. MONEY ISNT EVERYTHING. TH MORE HE STAYS AT SAUDI, THE LESS DANGEROUS A PLAYER HE BECOMES.
did this guy even watch the game? Gyan put in so much work until he was replaced by clottey on the 80th minute. He even created the chance which led to Atsu’s goal through Andre Ayew’s pass or deflected shot. Gyan was being specially marked the whole time by that Malawian defender who finally ended up with two yellow cards because of all the runs Gyan kept making. You should watch the game and stop making blind comments! The only reason Malawi played well in the first half is because ghana’s formation was 4-3-3 and the midfield was’nt as conc. as it usually is. In the second half when Akwasi took of jordan and brought on derek boateng it became 4-4-1-1, more similar to the formation ghana is used to which is 4-5-1. Akwasi is Good!
TWEA, WAT MARKING. WHAT MARKING? U CALL MARKING FROM A MALAWIAN DEFENDER MARKING? GYAN IS AN IDIOT. WEN U PLAY IN A SAUDI LEAGUE, EVEN COLTS DEFENDERS WILL FRUSTRATE YOU. KWAME, U SEEM TO FORGET THAT THIS SAME GYAN WAS OUR LONE STRIKER AT AFCON 2010, WCUP N EVEN IN THE FRIENDLY AGAINST ENGLAND. GYAN HAS SEEN BETTER DEFENSIVE MARKING THAN THIS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEN N NOW IS THE USELESS LEAGUE IN WHICH HE PLAYS. COLTS PLAYERS FROM GH CAN GO TO MLS, SWEDISH N SAUDI LEAGUE N DOMINATE, TRUST ME…..
You can go and drink the sea my senseless friend Gh fuo. Gyan is the best striker ghana has even with him playing in UAE. How highly rated is the swedish league over the UAE league???? and even if you want to compare where one plays to his form then JORDAN would have been the tearing defenders apart which is not the case.
JORDAN IS NOT RIPE FOR GBSTAR, BUT DEDE IS. A PLAYER IS AS GOOD AS THE CLUB HE PLAYS FOR AND THE LEAGUE HE PLAYS IN, TRUST ME…..THE GYAN WE SEE TODAY IS NOT THE SAME GYAN WE SAW WHEN HE PLAYED IN FRANCE N SUNDERLAND. HE IS NOT THE SAME. EVEN AN INJURED KOHN MENSAH HAD MORE GOALS THAN GYAN AT AFCON 2012, AND MENSAH IS A DEFENDER! ATTRIBUTE THAT TO THE LEAGUE HE PLAYS IN, KWAME.
I thought the zambians will b here 2day. lol
HE JOINEED MARSEILLE IN 2009. FROM 2009 TILL 2012, JORDAN HAS PLAYED IN 60 GAMES, SCORED 6 GOALS. THAT MEANS ON AVEARGE IN 3 YRS, HE PLAYS IN 20 GAMES PER SEASON AND SCORES 1 GOAL EVERY 10 GAMES. WEI Y3 STRIKER?….MUHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA. SHIP HIM TO METEORS OR SATTELITES TO EARN HIS STRIPES. I CANT BELIEVE APPAIH STARTED JORDAN OVER CLOTTEY. I MEAN, HOW?
Zambai 1 Uganda 0….. i see the so called defending champions not coming to defend their cup!!! Uganda is so hard to beat at home and they have beaten almost all the giants in Africa football ie ghana,Nigeria,Egypt,cameroon and they can torn the so called copper bullets into pieces in their national stadium called christened by the home fans as the gate of hell for visiting teams!!! Its easy to be afcon champions but is not easy to stay there forevere!!! Am just praying for the ugandans to tear them into pieces!!! They should use every means possible to win over them!!! Viva the revolutioncion!!!!
Abedi Pele is a big personality in Ghana but only Dede is qualified to play on the Black Stars. Coach Appiah is making some good decisions in his player selection but it is time to drop Jordan from the Black Stars lineup. He is either dribbling too much or he easily falls on the slightest contact. Ghana has too many talented players to be subscribing to this family affair. I mis-judge the quality of Derek Boateng. This guy should have started instead of Jordan wasting space on the team. I also mis-judged Vorsah he is quality. Instead of Jordan Coach Appiah should have kept Waris and helped him develop. He could also have called up Mpong.
Coach Appiah has had time to evaluate most of the talent Ghana possess it is now time to build a team. What we have now is just a collection of quality players and you cannot win the big games with quality alone. Malawi played a very good team soccer and that is why the made the Black Stars do most of the chasing. The coach also needs to run some team building drills for the players, mostly one or two touch and lots of movement off the ball. Please discipline your players, the games are being watched all over the world and there are dignitaries at the stadium, the need to pull their shorts up. It is disrespectful to show your underwear when you are playing for your country. The culprits in the game today were Gyan the captain and Derek.
I am a big fan of Adam but the piece of foot skill he displayed today must never be allowed to happen again. If you want to be eaten alive by Ghana fans then take that kind of risk. I am glad he got away with it but please do not ever do that again, it could cost you the position of number one goalie. I am glad you were confident enough, and comfortable enough to attempt the move but please save those moves for Christian Atsu.
Coach for the return leg be conservative. Play a more defensive formation. Milo’s 4-5-1 formation. The same 4 full backs, 3 defensive midfielders, 2 attacking midfielders and 1 striker up top. I would use the same line up with the exception of Jordan being substituted for Derek Boateng. I would drop Jordan from the team and bring on Waris, in his place. Waris has pace he scores in almost every game he plays in for his Swedish Club. He has more goals than any striker on both the Ghana team and the Malawi team. He even scored during the practice game at Accra. What is it not to like about this guy? With the midfield Ghana possesses he would be able to score a ton of goals. He has pace, good instincts, makes good turns and cuts, is good in the air and does not waste his chances, he is a clinical finisher and has lots of poise in the box. Appiah give this player a chance.
@selfmade are u not the one who was saying we shall beat the malawian lyk we did to leshoto yo admin even predicted a 4 0.u are always the one who wrong long atrticle of how u wud use the juju n beat malawi with a large margin. bt alas only to labour with a 2 0 against a ten man team.am sure ur ashemed of urself dats why ur not evein givin a very long article of how u dismantled malawi .zambian never predicted a 7 0 bt we said we shall qualify n WE SHALL DO IT U HEAR.by the way how is the mood in ghana afta havung prolonged hallucination of a bashing u thot u would give Malawi
By BBC is jst reporting about zambia. it is even the headline.guess a link to this site wouldnt be a bad thing coz entitre africa doesnt care about ghana and if it was the heading a bet it would not recieve alot of hitsby the way the last time uganda beat zambia in kampala was in the 80s n u think we shall jst allow them.by the way they have never beaten Nigeria,Egypt and camerooncheck ur facts u misinformed fan.mayb ghana coz of juju.
@ sade….. how am i ashamed of myself? We won two and did Malawi stated the match with 10 men? We all started it with equal nos so done bring that issue here!!! In namboole Uganda,am sure Zambia Willie fried,cook,toast,baked and then cut into pieces by the cranes!!! When was the last time Zambia won in namboole? When was the last time anything team won in namboole? Since 2004,the cranes has never lost at home and i always consider uganda a better football nation than Zambia because they give hell to all teams and i can positively tell you that the defending champions,the temporary destiny cup holders will be eliminated and wouldn’t and the rollcall when nations are mentioned in rsa!!! Uganda was the team that beasts your so called white magical coach three nil when he was the coach of angola leading to his sacking? Or did he quit? Whatever man and i know the cranes ll repeat it this time in an extraordinary way which ll lead to his sacking Or quiting? This renard guy don’t know how to qualify teams to major tournament and remember bonnetti qualified u and i can see angola showing in zambai… viva the revolutioncion!!!!
jordan has no problem, he is a good and young striker coming up.he is in good shape as a striker tht is why his team didnt sell him out of the team bcuz they saw how important he will be .so please his haters just leave him in his own world to enjoy playing his football.