Ghana’s Black Galaxies plan to force Nigeria’s CHAN Eagles into conceding an early goal in their second leg 2024 African Nations Championship, CHAN, qualifier billed for Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Saturday.
The first leg ended in a goalless draw at the Accra Sports Stadium last Sunday and according to Ghana coach Didi Dramani, they are not going to sit back and defend, but rush things up for their Nigerian opponents.
“As much as possible, we will try to keep a clean sheet, but I want to believe that we will surely score,” Dramani said.
“We will score; we will open up something. I control the energy, the effort, I control the performance (of my boys) but the results, we don’t control it.”
Also former Black Stars player Agyemang Badu urged the team to go all out and win since it was only Ghana’s chance of a continental contest having crashed out the Africa Cup of Nations.
“We should be very careful not to go and defend,” Badu told Joy Sports.
“This is only one game and when you lose, you are not going anywhere. We can’t do that [lose] because mind you, we didn’t qualify for the [2025] Africa Cup of Nations.
“If the CHAN too, we don’t qualify then there will be a little bit of disaster so we will support them, pray them, they [Galaxies] should go all out and win the game for us in the return leg.”
The winner of the tie will qualify to compete at next year’s CHAN tournament that will be held in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
