The Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Kumasi is set to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup play-offs between the Black Stars of Ghana and Super Eagles of Nigeria, reports Completesports.com.
The Cape Coast Stadium has been approved as venue for Ghana’s 64th independence anniversary on March 6 and is unavailable to host the highly anticipated encounter.
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The Accra Sports Stadium is not considered and the game will now take place at the Baba Yara Stadium, Ghana’s largest stadium, with a seating capacity of 40,528.
The first leg is scheduled to take place on March 23, while the reverse fixture billed to hold at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja is fixed for March 29.
The winners of the contest will be among the five Africa’s representatives at Qatar 2022.
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It is frightening because up till now, we don’t have a substantive coach and the so-called Peseiro without a good CV is no where to be found. NFF abeg put your house in order and give us a coach.
Corrupt NFF will wait till 5 days to the match and appoint a coach, thinking because we are Nigerians ,we are entitled to win ,bunch of loosers and empty heads .
Ghana mean business ooo.nff allow Egwuavoen continue if peseriao is not forth coming.The body language of our players shows the believe in Egwuavoen. Ghana vs Nigeria will be bloody
What has body language got to do with this? Where was their body language when they were being outplayed by a depleted team?
NFF stick with Eguavoen or give us Jose Morais.
Having slept over and done a critical analysis on the team I have arrived at the following conclusions
[1] Henceforth Aribo should be played has a number 10 instead of box to box. Aribo combines the goal scoring threat of ihenacho and the wide and sleek attacking passing of iwobi. This is vital especially if we are playing a team with a low block defence like9 the one Employed by Tunisia and CAR.
[2] Iheanacho should be played in the attacking position as no9. He is a natural goal scorer.
(3) Sadiq showed in the last match that he is a big game player so should be retained while Awoyini should be dropped to go learn more how to dribble as a striker.
[3) Ndidi and Onyekachi should play in the double pivot role so that any defence won’t be expose on the counter when Ndidi is beaten like against Tunisia.
(4) We still need VM. The NFF should go approach him again. We are not the first and won’t be the last to go beg a talented player who retired prematurely to rescind his decision.
5) Finally, Egu should be retained has SE coach and be given a free hand to rejig the team for better performance against Ghana and the world cup
In the just concluded meeting between NFF and the sport ministry, Austin Eguavon is given the mandate of handling the playoff against Ghana. This mandate runs for 2 years. Thank God no contract was signed with Peseiro and he was not even in Cameroon as agreed for the Afcon to see the Eagles play. GOOD RADIANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.
Egua (palace) should do away with those schoolboy players in the team if he wants to beat Ghana. Ghana is stronger than Tunisia. Ghana can easily beat Nigeria if those schoolboys are to be used again. For God’s sake, bring in Onuachu, the best player in Belgium in 2021. Amoo, Osimhen if he is free of covid19. Ighalo if his S/R will allow him to come, and Uzoho and Adeleye. forget about Okoye, that yeye goalkeeper. Forget about Victor Moses. Ghana people are saying today that, if Tunisia can beat us easily like that, they feel that they are surly better than Tunisia, they can easily beat Nigeria, home and away. Awoniyi and those schoolboy players should never have got a place in the team to face Tunisia.
CAF didn’t approve this stadium for Ghana to host Super Eagles of Nigeria for the world cup play off. This is because the Ghana Football Association didn’t follow the protocol for stadium approval before matches. The application must be made 3 months before the match. CAF instructed that the stadium earlier approved will be use. The approved stadium which was earlier approved was Cape Coast Stadium. GFA is applying for another stadium because the Ghanaian government want to use the cape coast stadium for independent celebrations..But CAF said NO to Ghana hosting Nigeria at Baba Yara Stadium or risk playing the home match against Nigeria outside Ghana.
This report is not up to date. CAF didn’t approve this stadium for Ghana to host Super Eagles of Nigeria for the world cup play off. This is because the Ghana Football Association didn’t follow the protocol for stadium approval before matches. The application must be made 3 months before the match. CAF instructed that the stadium earlier approved will be use. The approved stadium which was earlier approved was Cape Coast Stadium. GFA is applying for another stadium because the Ghanaian government want to use the cape coast stadium for independent celebrations..But CAF said NO to Ghana hosting Nigeria at Baba Yara Stadium or risk playing the home match against Nigeria outside Ghana.