Ghana tumble against Holland

  1. Posted on Wednesday 2 June 2010 - 09:35
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    Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana Photo: Black Stars during their World Cup qualifier victory
    Ghanaians are shocked with the 4-1 defeat to The Netherlands on Tuesday night. World Cup-bound Ghana side were disappointing as Dirk Kuyt, Wesley Sneijder, Van Persie and Rafael van der Vaart produced the goals while the Black Stars only pulled a consolation through striker Asamoah Gyan.
    ghana black stars celebrate World Cup berth Photo: Ghanaweb
    The score line gives Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk confidence ahead of the global football showpiece in South Africa.

    "We were patient against opponents who use the counter attack although our build up lacked pace," said van Marwijk.

    "If you play with a lot of creative players who all come onto the ball it is hard to (find space) near the goal but today we did very well and had depth to our game."

    "It was a pity we conceded a goal as we hardly gave away anything but it was just a breakdown in communication."

    Soccer pundits in the West African nation are unhappy with the results and blamed it on poor goalkeeping.

    A coach and sports analyst Nana Kwaku Agyemang said on his Facebook status: “Well it's only a friendly!! But does that mean that we should concede time, space, possession and 4 goals too? A very poor performance and the Dutch only played to 40% of their potential capacity. Lets hope the Coach learned a lot tonight and can guide us we can flatten Latvia on Saturday or else forget it!

    “When you select players based on past glories and without any comprehensive criteria to guide you then you will be beaten by 4 goals to 1 by a Dutch team that didn't even have to try! Follow me on the hour every hour on bended knees in prayer for deliverance in this World Cup by the Almighty, Amen! Wahala Dey plenty!!!”

    Another Christopher Opoku wrote: “Some reasons why things went horribly wrong last night. 1. Poor preparation (Milo doesn't seem to know his actual starting eleven). 2. Wrong personnel to start as per pace (ie, Appiah, Muntari among others) 3. Lack of fitness on the part of Richard Kingston and John Mensah.”

    Ghana is paired in Group D against Germany, Serbia and Australia.

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