{"id":250563,"date":"2024-11-14T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/14\/afcon-qualifiers-we-will-play-good-football-on-a-good-pitch-against-ghana\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T06:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:05:58","slug":"afcon-qualifiers-we-will-play-good-football-on-a-good-pitch-against-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/14\/afcon-qualifiers-we-will-play-good-football-on-a-good-pitch-against-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON Qualifiers: We will play good football on a good pitch against Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/857\/85791634.295.jpg\" alt=\"Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves\" title=\"Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves has taken a swipe at Ghana ahead of their Matchday five clash of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Palancas Negras, who have already qualified for the tournament, will host the Black Stars at the Est\u00e1dio 11 de Novembro on Friday, November 15.<\/p>\n<p>After criticizing the Baba Yara Stadium playing surface despite their win in the opener, Goncalves has assured that they will play a good game against the Black Stars on a good pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will play good football, with wonderful players, a great atmosphere, a good stadium, and a great pitch. We will do our best to beat one of the best teams in Africa,\u201d the Portuguese trainer told Ghanasportspage in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars wrapped up their training session on Tuesday evening. They are expected to jet off to Luanda later today.<\/p>\n<p>Otto Addo and his men, who are aiming to qualify for the tournament after a poor start, will wrap up their qualifiers with a home game against Niger on Monday at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, who sit 3rd in Group F, will need to win their games and hope Sudan lose their final games against Niger and Angola.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves has taken a swipe at Ghana ahead of their Matchday five clash of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The Palancas Negras, who have already qualified for the tournament, will host the Black Stars at the Est\u00e1dio 11 de Novembro on Friday, November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFCON Qualifiers: We will play good football on a good pitch against Ghana - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/14\/afcon-qualifiers-we-will-play-good-football-on-a-good-pitch-against-ghana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFCON Qualifiers: We will play good football on a good pitch against Ghana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves Angola head coach Pedro Goncalves has taken a swipe at Ghana ahead of their Matchday five clash of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. 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