Local Black Stars head coach Herbert Addo has admitted his side meekly handed victory to South Africa in their CHAN Group B opener on Saturday. Ghana took a 39th minute lead throuh Daniel Larbi Coomson but were undone in the second half by a ressurgent Amabinneplaas side.
Addo claims his charges paid the fine for taking their eyes off the ball. ”We had all the play in the first half and were in charge really and I was happy with that but football is a strange game and we conceded goals from what were largely our own mistakes and that cost us. Football is football and it can happen like that,” Addo told cafonline.com.
”There is still two football games left still and we can still make it, if we win the upcoming games. We could have done better here and you know the playing field was not suitable for football really, I am not using that as an excuse after-all it was the same for South Africa but we picked up two injuries which are largely because of the poor playing surface. South Africa made the most of the conditions and we did not.”
Ghana, 2009 silver medalists, are facing early elimination and must beat Zimbabwe on Wednesday to revive their campaign.