Andre Ayew expressed his disappointment in Ghana\u2019s 3-2 defeat to Comoros in Tuesday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations match and bemoaned the decision to have him sent off.<\/p>\n Needing a win to fancy their chances of qualifying from Group C, Black Stars began the match on a bright note, however, it was the debutants who pulled a shock lead in the fourth minute through El Fardou Ben Nabouhane.<\/p>\n While the West Africans were trying to regroup, their ambition of winning was dented after Ayew was given his marching orders in the 25th minute by referee Boubou Traore.<\/p>\n After VAR replays, the 32-year-old was dismissed for a dangerous challenge on goalkeeper Salim Ben Boina.<\/p>\n That numerical disadvantage was a big blow for Milovan Rajevac\u2019s men, who crumbled to the Afcon debutants \u2013 and in the process kissed the competition goodbye.<\/p>\n Ayew was left stunned by his early exit and expressed an apology to the people of Ghana for their shocking ouster from Cameroon 2021. <\/p>\n \u201cI watched it and it\u2019s not a red card,\u201d Ayew told the media in the mixed zone.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t make them [Ghanaians] proud, we take responsibility for that. We didn\u2019t have a good Afcon.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you see the goal we conceded against Morocco and versus Gabon, you will see that we were unlucky.\u201d<\/p>\n Since Ghana\u2019s maiden appearance at Sudan 1957, this is the first time they would be crashing out of the group stage without winning a match. They last failed to progress from their Afcon group in 2006 (Egypt).<\/p>\n Even at this setback, the Al Sadd forward insisted that his teammates must accept responsibility and must learn from their failed expedition.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we need to learn from this, we need to go back to the drawing board as the players move ahead,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to take criticism, apologise to the fans for not qualifying for the next round. We are disappointed because this is not Ghana.<\/p>\n \u201cI think if you guys know me, I leave to fight another day. We are going to work hard and we are going to be back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andre Ayew was sent off in the first half Andre Ayew expressed his disappointment in Ghana\u2019s 3-2 defeat to Comoros in Tuesday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations match and bemoaned the decision to have him sent off. Needing a win to fancy their chances of qualifying from Group C, Black Stars began the match on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1104,1105,160,341,1112,2276,14,85,1709,1233],"class_list":["post-756674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andre","tag-ayew","tag-call","tag-card","tag-comoros","tag-decisive","tag-defeat","tag-ghana","tag-red","tag-slams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756674","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=756674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Andre](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/31694046.295.jpg\" "\\"Andre")
Andre Ayew was sent off in the first half<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n