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Ghana lose 3-0 to Algeria in pre-AFCON friendly<\/b><\/p>\n
2021 AFCON to start from January 9 to February 6<\/p>\n
VAR will be used in 2021 AFCON <\/p>\n
Former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Joseph Yamin, has called for limited expectations for the Black Stars head of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n
The 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations will kick start from Sunday, January 9, 2022, and Black Stars coach Milovan Rajevac has been tasked to win the tournament to end Ghana\u2019s 40-year-old-wait for the AFCON.<\/p>\n
The Black Stars were handed a reality check by defending champions Algeria in the pre-AFCON friendly game. <\/p>\n
Algeria whipped Ghana 3-0 at the Education City stadium in Qatar.<\/p>\n
Reacting to Ghana\u2019s defeat against Algeria, Joseph Yamin who has refused to rule Ghana out from the title has urged Ghanaians to lower their expectations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe teams that have qualified for the tournament are capable of winning the trophy, so Ghana being part of these countries stand a chance to win it but it is not always the best country that wins.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, I think sometimes our expectations as Ghanaians are always high because of our exploits in the past years but if you look at the time Ghana were dominant, the teams were not enough but at the moment we are talking about 24 countries yearning for the trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball has become a global game so the narrative of being a football nation has changed. Our expectations are always high and it affect the support base for the team. So, I will advise Ghanaians not to over expect, we need to minimize our expectations until the team gets everything right,\u201d he said told Bryt FM.<\/p>\n
TWI NEWS<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ghana have been paired in Group C alongside bookmakers favourite Morocco, debutants Comoros and Gabon and will need to finish as one of the best two teams in the group to book automatic qualification to the knockout phase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana lose 3-0 to Algeria in pre-AFCON friendly 2021 AFCON to start from January 9 to February 6 VAR will be used in 2021 AFCON Former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Joseph Yamin, has called for limited expectations for the Black Stars head of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The 33rd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738376","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=738376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}