How Ghana players fared against Mali
Posted On Saturday, 9th February 2013
Christian Atsu in action for the Black Stars against Mali
Ghana lost for the second successive time against Mali in an Africa Cup of Nations third-place match.
The Black Stars were beaten 3-1 at Nelson Mandela Sports Stadium in Port Elizabeth Bay Stadium on Saturday evening.
Fatau Dauda – 6
Hardly at fault for any of Mali’s goals and otherwise had little to show on the night. The AshGold stopper will certainly be unhappy about the organisation of his central defence.
Harrison Afful – 6
The Esperance man had an average display on the night but he would certainly be blamed for failing to keep Adama Tamboura under surveillance as the Mali left-back breached the defence to set up Mamoudou Samassa for the opening goal.
Richard Kissi Boateng – 5
Won’t be a memorable AFCON debut for the TP Mazembe new signing as he failed to make any real impact especially after Kwesi Appiah had been chastised for leaving him on the bench in the semi-final defeat to Burkina Faso.
Isaac Vorsah – 5
The 24-year-old tried to use all his experience to marshal the back four but he was hugely unsuccessful.
John Boye – 6
Boye failed to stand out in defence and was as exposed as the rest of his colleagues in the defensive department. Two of Mali’s goals should have been dealt with by Boye and his compatriots in central defence.
Awal Mohammed – 4
Not quite sure what informed Kwesi Appiah’s decision to deploy the Maritzburg United man in a holding midfield role. He virtually failed to attend to his duties as there were basic flaws identified in his play. He failed to serve as cover for the back and was caught going forward more often.
Kwadwo Asamoah – 7.5
Perhaps Ghana’s best player on the pitch. He showed some pieces of his deft and impressive aggressiveness on the ball. He scored Ghana’s consolation with a thunderous drive from 25 yards out.
Mubarak Wakaso – 6
Aside everything, the Espanyol man needs to check his temperament. He was lucky to have stayed on for the entire duration of the game. He had the chance to win the AFCON goal king award but he blew it when he skied a penalty in the 58th minute. But hey! he is a real deal.
Solomon Asante – 6.5
The Little man’s pace and trickery proved vital on the right side of attack for Ghana as he won many fouls in vital areas. He has a future in the team and he advertised his qualities to the world.
Asamoah Gyan – 4.5
Gy-giantic under-performance from the captain. There was nothing consolatory about his performance. The less talk about him as a leader, the better.
Christian Atsu – 5
Put the Porto man on the right and you get little out of him and this is what Kwesi Appiah went for. Though he had some few exciting moments in the first half, he was virtually anonymous in the 70 minutes he lasted. He still has some work to do.
Substitutes:
Jonathan Mensah – 6
He brought stability into the defence and solidified the back four after replacing John Boye.
Albert Adomah – 5
The Bristol City man brought some fire down the right flank with his speed and crosses into the Mali goal area but there were no connections.
Emmanuel Clottey – 3
Did anybody realise Clottey came on to the pitch? His place is certainly not in the Black Stars for now.
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A.A the konongo kaya coach.
A.A the dibi ma me ndi bi coach.
Look at his player selection. we were forced to support him because he has already selected those players. You leave David addy in portugal and play rightfooted afful at leftback for a whole tournament? Ghana has players but no coach. It will be too late when we draw with sudan next month. An international coach will select players on merit but A.A has a naiive philosophy that “any player can get the job done”
even in our friendly match against dilapidated egypt despite we won any observer realised we were lacking quality playmaker who can hold the ball upfront.
GFA should be proffessional and hire a competent coach ASAP. we are killing the spirit of the otherwise deserving players like KASA, ATSU, they will soon loose their confidence out of frustration. See how John Boye of all defenders and Agyemang badu lost their mojo half way through the tourney? It’s not their fault, mediocrity in a team is infectious… very soon it will be KASA and Atsu. PLEASE EEE GFA HIRE A COACH WITH TRACK RECORD NOW. A.A has been given a head start now he can go and mature somewhere else, Hire a competent coach and let anothet Ghanaian be his assistant. This is wisdom, don’t force there to be there when there is not there, local coaches are not there yet. GFA THINK!
Ghanaians need to stop the inferiority complex. This has nothing to do with the coach. The team needs time to develop. A White coach is not the answer. If you want to look abroad, look for players like Ballotelli, Welbeck, Sapong. Ghanaians who have the striking mentality who are born and raised outside. These are the folks to deal with. Stop searching for the White savior. You have bretheren from outside who can make the team great. Mali’s first goal today was from a guy born an raised in France. Wake up Ghanaians. It is not about a foreign coach.
AA IS TRASH!
AA IS TRASH! HE DIDNT USE YIADOM AT ALL, WHY? THIS KID IS OUR FUTURE IN THE STRIKING DEPT….
anokwale you have a childish mentality, hiring a foreign coach has nothing to do with the colour of the skin but all about competence, we have given A.A enough ground to learn the coaching trade elsewhere for kotoko e.t.c not our national team.
we can hire guardiola if we want, afterall he is black and will satisfy your craziness idiot. imancipate yourself fromental slavery does not mean choose black over white. The colour of the skin should be irrelevant than the color of the eye. beats me. We need a coach who is techncically sound and A.A is cut for the job. open your eye. with our last serbian coach we outplayed zambia and they happened to beat us. when A.A took over, zambia outplayed us, they scored early on in the game and we only had 3shots on goal. If it is coming then it is doing…beats me.
Okay my people. When Leroy was coach in 2008 what happened. The “White Wizard” lost to Cameroon in the semi-final in Accra. I was at the stadium by the way! He did not have enough defenders and Essien had to play as a center back. Essien started cheating up and guess what…counter attack and goal. In 2008 the team was talented but the coach did a bad job and we could not win at home. In 2010 AFCON we were lucky that Togo left so we were in a short group and we beat a not confident Angola and a rebuilding Nigeria. When we met a real test, our Serbian coach had no plan. In 2010 WC, which I personally attended, we got lucky penalties and God being so good we got to meet U.S.A. instead of England. When we met a real test, our Serbian coach had no plan. In 2012, we could not score against Zambia. Guess what, our Serbian coach had the Ayew brothers. We could not score…Face it, we can have the greatest coach in the world, if we do not have Ballotelli or Welbeck types play for Ghana, we will never win any hardware. You have to score. Simple as that. You can be the worst coach but if you have players who can score from any distance and any angle you will win.
Now add AA in 2013 to your list and analyse his work! Going from your logic, the coACHES YOU MENTIONED EITHER LEFT OR GOT SACKED! So what should happen to AA , GET SACKED OR GET SACKED?? (Question formulation is intentional)
Amen brother, the inferioty complex is what is killing us. i bet these fools will rather have a cat as a coach than a blackman
It is not about the fact we lost but how we lost.
All these coaches lost at the semi’s.fine. but we played beautiful football and in LE ROY’S case I believe we even went on to oust CIV for 3rd place with a sweet comeback. Please fellow Ghanaians do not be deceived. A.A is not ready.
What a disgrace AA? You lack technical ability, just resign and go back to school if you want to coach.
why AA is incompetent- against sudan @ kumasi ! against zambia@ lusaka and lastly against burkina @ afcon! tactical ineptitude. he could just not read games- please the fact that you are a ghanian does not mean we should be mute! even muorino and sir alex sometimes swallow pride and give star players some days off a.k.a sulley and dede would ave been fit for our 3rd match- ajigon! we will sack him for sure! brazil 2014 @ risk!
GH VS MALI….
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WILL USE KASA IN MIDFIELD. USE HIM ON THE LEFT WING ALWAYS TO USE HIS LEFTFOOT!
WHEN MENSAH N AWAL CAME IN, LOOK HOW RELAXED THE DEFENCE WAS? MAKAA AKAA, U PPL NEVER LISTEN, WHY? FREE ADVICE TOO U DONT WANT? GYIMI
VORSAH IS NOT A MOBILE DEFENDER AT ALL….WHY EVEN START BOYE?
AA/QQ AND NYANTAKYI MUST BE SENT TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, TO THE LIONS DEN.
WHERE WAS ANNAN? WHY START GYAN AGAIN? WHY DIDNT YOU START YIADOM AND CLOTTEY?
AA/QQ, I TOLD YOU TO USE THE 532 FORMATION. THAT IS THE GOLDEN FORMATION.
THE ISSUE HERE IS NOT WITH THE PLAYERS, BUT THE COACH. THE PLAYERS ARE NOT EVEN FIT PHYSICALLY. NO METAL LIFTING
I KEEP TELLING YOU TO MAKE SURE THE PLAYERS LIFT SOME METAL. IT PROTECTS THEM AGAINST INJURIES
AND STRENGTHENS THEIR LIGAMENTS. SO THEY ARE ABLE TO HEAL MUCH QUICKER FROM INJURIES.
I SAID ALL THESE THINGS FROM DAY 1, BUT GHPPL WERE INSULTING ME. LOOK AT THE PHYSIQUE OF THE OTHER NATIONS?
NYANTAKYI AND AA/QQ APPIAH MUST GO INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, THE LIONS DEN.
IF DESAILLY CANT TAKE OVER, ALLOW MAXWELL KONADU. I WOULD BE HONORED TO MEET HIM. HE WILL ACHIEVE GREATNESS, THAT GUY.
I JUST HOPE HE TAKES CARE OF HUMSELF BCOS GHFUO ARE WICKED. THEY WILL TRY TO POISIN HIM, KILL HIM.
MAX IS A SMART GUY N PREPARES WELL FOR EVERY OPPONENT. HE IS NOT SUPERSTITIOUS LIKE AKWASI APPIAH.
APPIAH BELIEVES IN THINGS HE HIMSELF DOES NOT UNDERSTAND, SO HE WILL ALWAYS SUFFER. I MEAN HOW CAN U BELIEVE OR HAVE GYIDI POWER
IN SOMETHING YOU DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND/ONUU SHISHI? (under stand).
IM SURE APPIAH WENT AND CONSULTED JUJU BEFORE THE
AFCON TOURNEY AND THOUGHT JUJU WOULD SAVE HIS BLACK ASS. WAT A FOOL. HE SHULD GO AND ASK MOURINHO, RIJKAARD, GUARDIOLA, FERGUSON
IF THEY HAVE JUJU..muahahaha agyeeeii!…TYPICAL OLD FOOL SET IN HIS WAYS.
THIS IS WAT WE CALL SUPERSTITIION…LIKE JUJU! AA/QQ, MALLAM CHOP YOUR MONEY FREE!
TONY BAFFOE FOR GFA HEAD. WE DONT NEED A WHITE COACH. WE NEED TO STOP DEALING WITH PUMA!
I BELIEVE IN KONADU OR DESAILLY COACHING GBSTARS ASAP! THEY ARE OUR ONLY HOPE, THESE 2.
LOOK, I DONT KNOW WHY GOD HAS BLESSED ME WITH ALL THESE WORTHY IDEAS.
IM NOT SEEKING ANY MONETARY GAIN FOR MY IDEAS. I JUST WANT TO SEE GH DO WELL SO WE CAN ALL HAVE HAPPINESS AND PEACE IN OUR HOMES.
GFA, YOU EITHER TAKE ADVANTAGE AND BE SUCCESSFUL OR YOU DONT AND PERISH.
IF AA HAD LISTENED OR RESPECTED MY IDEAS FROM DAY 1, HE WOULD HAVE AT
LEAST BEEN IN THE FINAL. WHAT A SHAME!
THANK YOU….
tuxman06@yahoo.ca
When some of us were clamoring for the inclusion of quincy,pple thought otherwise because they put all their hopes on atsu,erroneously thinking that atsu can unlocked any defence on earth forgetting that too much meat doesn’t spoil the soup but makes it tasty!!! We need the blend of the youth and the old guards to be successful but upon pleas and pleas for the inclusion of quincy,this mmobo mmobo coach will not hear word,all dressed up in a fucking black suit looking like a corpse about to face autopsy!!! The likes of keshi,carteron,renard all dressed up in a simple shirts which show their seriousness but not our so called gentleman coach!!! The coat restricts his movement to scream on the touchline!!! We know his formation but what was his tactics!! Are we playing defensively,counterattacking,all out attack etc!!! He needs to do the honourable thing by resigning before he even touch base in Ghana because he refused to listen to the fans who were calling for the inclusion of certain experienced players like quincy but he rather went on a wild goose chase for some unavailable ghanaian players who are yet to made their mind up to play for ghana!!! This yenky3di coach was out-coached by all the coaches we encountered
the coach is just not a quality material! he cant read games and his selections and substitutions are below par ! he certainly can take us to brazil 2014 ! against sudan in kumasi he was speechless! against zambia in lusaka and burkina at the afcon we all saw the other coaches made him to look like a schoool boy! his pride let him down! he could have taken muntari and dede along and they could have played the third game! somebody tell me albert adoma is quality than jordan!
Ghana B.S. aka known as the Bullshit Stars. For thirty solid years all they have done is talk talk and talk. By the way they are still talking. Shut your mouths, respect others and maybe you will win something. Dont blame it on the coach. How many times have you changed coaches in the past 30 years and still not been able to win Africa’s prestigious Cup of nations. The problem is not the coach, the problem is you, you and you including all the players and coaches in the team. You talk too damn much. Ghana can bring in Alex Ferguson, Roberto Mancini or Jose Mourinho, but as long as they don’t humble themselves and quit the juju in the team, they will always remain in their relegated position as the Bullshit Stars. By the way, a great suggestion would be to change your name to The Gold Stars, because last time i checked, Black Stars are of the devil and they never shine. Wake up. Congratulations to Burkina Faso and Nigeria, congratulations to Zambia for last years excellent performance, congratulations to Ivory Coast for reaching the final last year without conceding a single goal, Congratulations to Mali for last year and this years 3rd place victory. All the above teams have proven it on the ground, not by way of talk. Well, I want to also congratulate Ghana for wining every conversation about soccer. Today, for 30 years consecutively, Ghana has been crowned the AFCON champions of fact-less talk. Talk is cheap, wake up and get your act together!!!
waa look. because of technically bankrupt A.A and his cohorts. Zambians can now talk back at us in soccer. I bet even the last serbian coach will not have lost the reverse match to zambia again in the same year. Guys let us put all things aside and be realistic, Akwasi Appiah is not a good enough for Blackstars job.
@ real…. kwasia,u want attention and noone ll give u because u are some faceless he goat with your stinking mouth wanting some attention motherfucker!!! Kwasia,u talked about zambia and what did u achieved this yr in afcon!!! Am sorry for your small unwashed,uncastrated dick because i can see that u are a zambian and want to console your aids infested self with ghana but we don’t give a fuck about you ,your mother,father,your fucking girlfriend,your grandmother and father!! Kwasiatuo,bantu fool!!!! Yoo,go take your aids drugs and let pple who have more common sense than your stupid bantu villagers solve our fucking problems motherfucker!!! U fucked your village country with aids and instead of you educating your mumu countryman of how to fuck with condoms,u here showing us your small bantu mind mktherfucker!!! You slowpoke son of a zombian whore and a fucking pimp papa motherfucker!!! Viva the revolutionciooooooo!!! Bring it on cuz selfmade ll deal with your kwasiabilities!!!!
Dude, what are you talking about. You make no sense. Who said I was Zambian? Lol, I like to get soft motherfuckers like you mad. It ain’t my fault your bullshit stars suck. Direct all that energy you used in your response to your dick, you might just get a hard-on. You erectile dysfunctional bitch. Sit your sorry ass down.
@ real….. kwasia ofui and aids infested fool with bantu blood running in your useless blood motherfuker!!! Am going to deal with u today and if u done know,asked your foolish bantu villagers on this site!! Viva the revolutioncioooo!!!
Motherfucker I just urinated in your mothers mouth. Now deal with me you self-made bitch.
AKWASI APPIAH CERTAINLY DONT KNOW THE RULES OF THE GAME,this Ghana team will even be hard to qualify for world cup not with this bullshit team,this no joke,how can kwasi appiah leave ANDRE AYEW,QUINCY ABEYIE,MUNTARI,and a quality strong left back like hands Edu Sape?check the muscle strenght of mail asante,harrison aful too small to contain strenght,christian atsu just a bullshit player he needs to develop his strenght and be quick on ball,Asamoah GYAN performs better when he has the right players to give him ball not this kids who dont know their left and right,no team feared ghana just because we had no big names,big names do play a roll it phych the opponent with fear not to rush attack,Cape Verde played as like babies,burkina put pressure on as like kids do u think if ivory coast had scored that goal they would have countered with pressure?hell no cos they fear ivorians good to attack with a goal on a slight mistake.why do u think european teams spend money to buy Big names?where was man city until they started spendning big money on big names?come on Ghanaians wake up.Kwasi Appiah is a joke,how can mali masacar as 3 on ths level?forget even world cup .
Ivory Coast would have won the cup for the past 10 yrs if big names can win AFCON.The problem is players not coaches.how many coaches havent we changed in the past 30 yrs? Check the records and you will observe that we struggle against physically endowed african teams.simply put,we need strong players.Asante,Afful,Atsu etc were toys in the sight of the Burkinabe‘s!
Dr. Who:
Thank you for the sensible comments. It is up to the players. The small skilled players cannot win it if they are not able to score. We cannot depend on dribbling, getting knocked down and getting a free kick or penalty. We need big strong players who can take a physical bump and keep going and score. The coach can not make our players score in the clutch.
you ghanians just talk too much,leave the coach alone
you just over rate your selves and you better shut up
football is played on the pitch.the so called stars don’t offer you anything because of their pride and juju is just too much in team.take it or live it.
@ real……. yall zombies are suckers and fucking ridiculous!!! I am just wondering why they even come to this site to talk about!! Yall won the afcon and everyone was calling u fluke,fake champions and you proved everyone right by going out in the first round and u not even ashamed of this fucking disgusted feat but you aids infested patients with faces like sculptures and caricatures still want to associate with human beings!!! You zombies are like mugus who are being used by a stupid white coach who told u that the goals ll come in the tournament and u all hail him because bantus are bush dwellers and villagers and one kind of stupid homo sapiens!!! At least no fucking white coach ll come to ghana and deceived us by saying am reserving my goals for the tournament because we too smart for such a bullshit talk unlike the bantu bush dwellers who have no brain’s !!! Zambia is a minnow in football and nothing ll change that because unlike you,alot of Africans know that it take more than one fluke,fake,ghost driven cup to be considered a giant and we all know that u are back to where u belong because your coach even said it when he was eliminated by bf!!! Kwasia,u just win one fluke afcon cup and u think we ll kiss your aids,hiv asses but dude not ghanains because we have achieved better things than your ill forgotten sad country that is only mention in international circles when a new aids/hiv virus is developed motherfucker!!!! We went to the semifinals and u crashed out of the first round but here u are happy and this show how inferior u are and am not surprised because these zombies live like third class citizens in their fucking bantuland controlled by white slavemasters motherfucker!!! Haaaaaahaaaa!!! Viva the revolutioncioooooo!!!
Dude are you on crack or what? Why the fucking are you addressing me and all you do in your responses is talk about Zambia? If your objective is to send a message to Zambians do so directly. Preclude me motherfucker because I am not Zambian. But one thing for sure is that the same Zambia that you seem to have so much hate for, is better than your bullshit stars. I knew, I should have left you as a sperm stain on your mothers belly when i was fucking her. You would have been worth more. Now look what I did, birthed a fucking self-made bitch. I am owning you, I M YOUR DADDY BITCH!!!!!
shut up! Was ayew brothers not among the 2012 afcon squad? What did muntari, essien, j mensah, abeyie n other soo call senior do in 2008? Y are we anxious to win the trophy at all cost? The players fear our verbal n agonising attacks n simply withdraw from spot kick. Its too bad n its time we learn how to appriciate than to critise!
Not necessarily a foreign coach! His assistant Konadu or Didi Dramani would be more qualified to do the job!These are local coaches with the required track-records and also real coaching practice and work!
@ pius malam…… kwasia, another he goat on heating with his gaping stinking hiv filled mouth ready to licked the ass of a female goat motherfucker!!! Which country doesn’t talked in football????? I guessed is only your fake,fluke,ghost driven aids infested shitpolopolo!!! Kwasia,aponkyire bantuland slave,common sense is common but not common to your bantuland villagers that’s why some shit white coach can deceived u that he is reserving his goals for tournament and you and your village folks were jumping up n down in your bomba latrine country!!! Ghanaians unlike your stupid bantuland cousins,are very smart and ll therefore criticized the coach for poor performance!!! U said we talked too much than your hiv infested countrymen???!!! Maybe u living in some bush in bantuland and therefore didn’t have the opportunity to see how your hiv infested brothers and sisters were saying before the start of this afcon….. i ll remained u a few of them…zambia ll present even more powerful squad for afcon….. Zambia ll defend the cup….etc….. maybe u were hiding your chicken pores face in a hole peeping the world from a crack motherfucker!!!! U couldn’t qualified to the quarter finals and still u over the moon because Ghana couldn’t win the cup but for your information,Ghana ll forever be a big brother in Africa and world football unlike your mediocrity team which has proved to everyone that they are truly the greece of african football…. fluke,fake champions and u ll bear this tag whenever afcon 2012 is mention!!!! catch us if you can!! If i were you,i ll start a campaign to educate these bunch of ignorant bantu bushmen and women,to stop bleeping unnecessary to reduce the prevalence of aids 1 or 2 and hiv in zombieland!!! If i were u,i will be very sad because a time ll come,we wouldn’t have no zombies to serve as comedians to entertain us again in afcon because aids ll eliminate all of them!!!! Your concerty party team,shitpolopolo or better still aidspolopolo not be wanna size!!! Haaahaaaahaa!!!! Viva the revolutioncioooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!