Jonathan Mensah has drawn positives from Anthony Baffoe\u2019s comments about Ghana\u2019s senior national team following their disappointing performances so far at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n The Black Stars crumbled 1-0 to Morocco in their first match before playing out a 1-1 draw versus Gabon in their last outing despite taking an early lead.<\/p>\n Pained by the team\u2019s sloppy performances, Baffoe suggested that Milovan Rajevac\u2019s men are playing without passion.<\/p>\n Asked on his take on the 56-year-old\u2019s remarks ahead of Tuesday\u2019s make or break encounter against Comoros in Garoua, Mensah sees that criticism as a tonic to spur his team to action.<\/p>\n \u201cThe opinion coming from Baffoe is welcome \u2013 coming from someone from that has played at the highest level and worn the national team shirt,\u201d the Columbus Crew centre-back told the media.<\/p>\n \u201cHe also played with passion, so if he is voicing out his opinion to us, we will take it on a positive note and replicate that on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n The four-time African kings are targeting a fifth African diadem, nevertheless, they must first negotiate their way past Amir Abdou’s Coelacanths to stand a chance of qualifying for the Round of 16.<\/p>\n Mensah claims the West Africans have found themselves in this kind of situation in the past and will ensure qualification is guaranteed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mood is camp is very good even though we know it\u2019s a very crucial game for us. All we need to do is go out there, play hard and win for the nation,” he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been like this for us. The first time he [Rajevac] was in charge of the team, I remember we lost 3-1 to Cote d\u2019Ivoire in one of our group matches but we got to the final.<\/p>\n \u201cAll we just need to do is win this last game and progress to the next stage.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a lot of debutants in the team plus a few experienced players. We know it\u2019s going to be tough, so we are there to guide the young ones.\u201d<\/p>\n Ghana, who are making their 23rd appearance at the African football showpiece, crashed out in the Round of 16 at Egypt 2019.<\/p>\n After a 1-1 draw versus Tunisia after extra time, they bowed 5-4 on penalties at the Ismailia Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jonathan Mensah has drawn positives from Baffoe\u2019s comments about the Black Stars Jonathan Mensah has drawn positives from Anthony Baffoe\u2019s comments about Ghana\u2019s senior national team following their disappointing performances so far at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. The Black Stars crumbled 1-0 to Morocco in their first match before playing out a 1-1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2122,2123,2124,2125,2126,904,2127],"class_list":["post-754929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-baffoes","tag-jonathan","tag-mensah","tag-positives","tag-statement","tag-takes","tag-tony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754929","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=754929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jonathan](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/55375791.295.jpg\" "\\"Jonathan")
Jonathan Mensah has drawn positives from Baffoe\u2019s comments about the Black Stars<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n