Ghana’s Black Queens have reached the quarter-finals of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) after a comfortable 4-1 win against Tanzania in their final Group C match on Monday.
The Black Queens went into the game winless in their opening two fixtures – 2-0 defeat to South Africa and 1-1 draw with Mali.
But they recorded their first win of the tournament with the resounding victory.
In the group’s other tie South Africa hammered Mali 4-0 to clinch a second group win (one draw).
After the conclusion of the preliminary phase, South Africa top the group on seven points and Ghana finished second on four points.
Mali, who are also on four points and have advanced to the knockout round, ended third while Tanzania placed bottom on one point.
Ghana will now face Algeria in the quarter-finals on July 19 while South Africa will battle Senegal.
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Watching the current Women’s Euro tournament vs the Wafcon and I can see a wild gulf. One filled with teams that play fast, highly technical, and beautiful to watch football with capacity crowd in all matches. The other with average, overated teams (like SA who overhype their bang average team cos of a fluke win. In 2022), riddled with school girl errors and stray passes, with basic or fluke goals.
Waldrum’s Sper Falcons that played the 2023 WC in Aus/NZ would have strolled to a win in this competition. But the team has clearly regressed with marginal differences with the other very basic teams at the tournament.
This SA team is not a threat on a normal day. And even the Zambian team is mostly a 2-men team, one of whom sex is highly in doubt.