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Algeria thump Ghana 3-0 <\/b><\/p>\n
Kwakye Ofosu calls for calm after Algeria defeat <\/p>\n
Issahaku sustains injury in Ghana’s defeat to Algeria<\/p>\n
Ghanaians were on Wednesday, January, 5 2021, offered a sneak peek into what could happen to the Black Stars when they come up against the big teams at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n
An error-riddled Black Stars team suffered a 3-0 defeat at the hands of reigning AFCON champions with all the goals passing for the description \u201cgifted goals\u201d. <\/p>\n
Though the score-line reflects an apparent disturbing performance from the Black Stars, there are a few positives that GhanaWeb noticed from the game. <\/p>\n
In this article, we draw five lessons from the mortification of the Black Stars by Algeria. <\/p>\n
Goalkeeping headache<\/b> <\/p>\n
As things stand Jojo Wollacott is Ghana\u2019s first choice goalkeeper and from his initial matches is a good fit for the position. <\/p>\n
The headache, however, is that in a tournament where injuries are not a rarity, Ghana could find itself in a difficult situation should Wollacot pick up an injury. <\/p>\n
The performance of both Nurudeen and Ati-Zigi was nothing to write home about and Milovan Rajevac will hope that his first-choice goalkeeper will be fit for the duration of the tournament. <\/p>\n
TWI NEWS<\/span><\/p>\n Gideon Mensah was roasted<\/b> <\/p>\n It remains to be seen whether Milovan Rajevac will stick with Baba Rahman as his first choice left back or opt for the more forward-thinking Gideon Mensah in the AFCON. <\/p>\n The signs however show that Gideon Mensah could perhaps not be the right person to fill the left back position. <\/p>\n The Bordeaux full back was out of sorts yesterday with all three Algerian goals coming from Ghana\u2019s left side. <\/p>\n It could also be blamed on the failure of Joseph Paintstil to track back. <\/p>\n Fatawu Issahaku could be Ghana\u2019s star at the tournament<\/b> <\/p>\n Is there any superlative yet to be splashed on the 17-year-old yet? He was Ghana star in a dark performance against Algeria. <\/p>\n Ghana\u2019s best chances were created by the youngster who on one occasion slid through a pass to find Benjamin Tetteh whose feeble shot was tamed by the goalkeeper. <\/p>\n Issahaku once against drifted into the middle and curled a good one which was parried by the Algerian goalie. <\/p>\n With Kudus likely to miss a chunk of the tournament, Milovan Rajevac could use Issahaku in the middle as his main creator. <\/p>\n TWI NEWS<\/span><\/p>\n Black Stars not creating enough chances<\/b> <\/p>\n Whereas the manner in which the team conceded the goals will be a big headache to Milovan Rajevac, the bigger challenge will be squeezing goals out of this team. <\/p>\n There were moments in the game where Ghana dominated and put together some decent passes, lacking from the play however is the creation of chances. <\/p>\n Bar the individual efforts from Issahaku, rarely did Ghana test the Algerian goalie with the team being lacklustre in front of goal. <\/p>\n In the first half in particular, Ghana dominated but could not find any decent opening. The XG for Ghana at the end of the half was zero. <\/p>\n Partey press or team press<\/b> <\/p>\n Despite reaching the camp a day before the game, Thomas Partey led the pressing for the team. The Arsenal man and Edmund Addo gave signs of a good partnership with Partey focused on retrieving the ball whenever he loses it. <\/p>\n Problem however is that he is the only one in the team that appeared to have approached the game in that manner. <\/p>\n Whereas other players crawled back after losing the ball, Partey was insistent on recovering. <\/p>\n The pressing which is a feature of his Arsenal side could be an individualistic approach but coach Rajevac needs to decide whether the team will be pressing or using a different approach at the AFCON. <\/p>\n video=141571><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Algeria thump Ghana 3-0 Kwakye Ofosu calls for calm after Algeria defeat Issahaku sustains injury in Ghana’s defeat to Algeria Ghanaians were on Wednesday, January, 5 2021, offered a sneak peek into what could happen to the Black Stars when they come up against the big teams at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. An […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[247,14,250,392],"class_list":["post-737695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-algeria","tag-defeat","tag-ghanas","tag-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}