{"id":253178,"date":"2024-11-20T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/20\/2025-afcon-qualifiers-black-stars-performed-better-than-the-results-indicate\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:42:09","slug":"2025-afcon-qualifiers-black-stars-performed-better-than-the-results-indicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/20\/2025-afcon-qualifiers-black-stars-performed-better-than-the-results-indicate\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 AFCON Qualifiers: Black Stars performed better than the results indicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/458\/45820010.295.jpg\" alt=\"Black Stars Team Manager, Ameenu Shardow\" title=\"Black Stars Team Manager, Ameenu Shardow\" width=\"295\" height=\"210\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Black Stars Team Manager, Ameenu Shardow<\/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\">Ameenu Shardow, the Black Stars\u2019 team manager, is standing firm in defence of his players despite Ghana\u2019s failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).<\/p>\n<p>Shardow insists the team\u2019s performances were far better than the disappointing results they produced.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana finished bottom of Group F with just three points from three defeats and three draws, two of those defeats at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only the results which are yet to come, but if you look at the performances of the team in most of the games, we performed better than the results that we got,\u201d Shardow said on Happy FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are going to be honest and factual about happenings, our first game against Angola, did anything suggest to you that we deserved to lose the game?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you pipe down the emotions and go deeper into the details and analyze just the games, you\u2019ll see that we performed well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the performance of the team in all the games that we played is anything to go by, Ghana was supposed to top the group if we are only looking at the performance unless you want to be blind to the fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars ended the qualifying campaign with an embarrassing 2-1 defeat to Niger at the Accra Sports Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars Team Manager, Ameenu Shardow Ameenu Shardow, the Black Stars\u2019 team manager, is standing firm in defence of his players despite Ghana\u2019s failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Shardow insists the team\u2019s performances were far better than the disappointing results they produced. Ghana finished bottom of Group F with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253178","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>2025 AFCON Qualifiers: Black Stars performed better than the results indicate - 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\/20\/2025-afcon-qualifiers-black-stars-performed-better-than-the-results-indicate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2025 AFCON Qualifiers: Black Stars performed better than the results indicate - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Black Stars Team Manager, Ameenu Shardow Ameenu Shardow, the Black Stars\u2019 team manager, is standing firm in defence of his players despite Ghana\u2019s failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). 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