No need to press panic button - Derek Boateng

Posted On Monday, 10th September 2012

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Derek Boateng insists Ghana will beat Malawi at their own backyard

By Patrick Akoto

Ghana midfielder Derek Boateng says there is no need for fans to press the panic button after the Black Stars laboured to beat Malawi in a 2013 Nations Cup qualifier.

The West African giants put up a stirred second half performance to beat The Flames 2-0 at the Accra Sports stadium.

The team looked lethargic and out of sort in the first half and needed an inspired display from rising star Christian Atsu and Anthony Annan to light the stadium alive.

The Southern Africans have a lot of organizational skills, and one thing that is responsile for their recent good performances at home is their growing confidence.

For a side that can hardly be described as overflowing with talents, the Malawians possess the ability to upset their Ghanaian counterpart in the return fixture in Blantyre.

But the Dnipro enforcer is optimistic the Black Stars can put The Flames to the sword.

“You can see it was a very difficult game, Malawi showed that they can play. They are a very good side and were not afraid to play their game,” Boateng said

“I saw how good they were when I was on the bench and I came in with a strategy for them, but overall they are good,”

“They can play good football which made it difficult for us that’s why we are happy we won 2-0. It is not bad as we will make it.”

He added: “What is important is that we are leading by two goals and if we go there, they have to win by 3-0 which is not going to be easy for any team,”

“They are going to play more offensive because they are not afraid to come forward and we will also be ready to take advantage.

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READERS COMMENTS

ALEX says:

September 10, 2012 at 2:21 pm

They will be more offensive for sure,this will make them vulnerable at the back to an experienced Ghana team.They might concede more goals to Ghana if they are not careful.It will be difficult for even Brazil or Spain to handle this situation.I think Malawi know where they are heading already.Elimination awaits them.

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Robb says:

September 10, 2012 at 3:40 pm

We shouldn’t go to this game as we did against Zambia in the away match. We should just sit and wait for them, they are definitely going to attack and that is what we are looking for. Speedy wingers and attackers will do all the damages. We need Quincy Owusu-Abeyie at the right-back if we want to qualify comfortably.

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Selfmade says:

September 10, 2012 at 3:47 pm

This malawians didn’t play any good football!! Simple!!! Ghana still has one big problem and thats finding a good playermaker!!! Malawians were able to hold on unto the ball for a very long period of time because the bs were not able to hold the ball all because we lack a good playermaker… with the malawian game,k asamoah who was playing very deep hardly hold the ball and control the game with passes and all our problems was from him.. he was quiet,lackadaiscal and seems uninterested!!! If we have a good playermaker who can take on players,it ll creates space for our wingers and strikers to move but in the malawian game,all the players were jammed up in midfield with some dropping deep to initiate attacks and this always makes the flames re-organised at the back!! U could see clearly that whenever atsu has the ball they panicked alot and committed alot of fouls around their d and can’t believed we couldn’t even buried one of those chances!!! Wow!! We don’t have to curled the ball into the net because we can’t do it esp africans!! We have alot of power and therefore instead of trying to curled the ball,why don’t we give powerful direct long range freekickers… we have alot of ghanaian players who can do that and i bet anybody we can score alot of goals from this!! Can somebody tell Asa to control play in midfield by being active and try to take on players!!! Conte told him to go pass players why because he is sometimes too static!! He needs to start moving around the middle of the field because we having a midfield play,he is our initiator!! Until we solved this lawmaker issue,we ll always lack sharp attacking game!!! Maybe we have to try derek on that and see how it ll workout!!! He change the complexion of the game in the second half!!!! This sloppy buildup is all due to lack of sharp attacking playermaker!! Viva the revolutioncion!!!

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- Lee says:
  
  September 10, 2012 at 6:22 pm
  
  The problem was simple. Ghana didn’t know the Malawi players neither their style of play – Asamoah Gyan said this after the game.
  Everything is very clear now going into the second leg. We should see an improved performance in this last game.
  Again, Liberia friendly will give the coach an excellent idea to make good choices, changes and strategies for the second leg. Some players were not hungry, some were played out of their comfortable positions.
  
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