Goals anda Highlights: Angola 1-1 Ghana in African Cup of Nations Qualifiers | 03/27/2023

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Angola 1-1 Ghana.

Both teams can't get to the attack and build plays. Game goes to the end and everything is the same.

It's the draw. Bukari received a pass and didn't miss a opportunity to tie the game for Ghana.

Dala received card.

 

Angola continues to have more dominance in the game.

Finished: 10-2.

Lucas João converted the penalty and opened the scoring for Angola.

Amartey committed a foul inside the area in Dala and the referee gave Angola a penalty.

Angola 0-0 Ghana.

Angola 0-0 Ghana.

First half is coming to an end, but with Angola having more offensive power and getting more attacking.

Finished: 7-2.

Angola increases the pressure.

Game still without great emotions, but Angola is who has more control of the confrontation.

Angola has more ball possession and finalizations at the beginning of the game, but still without creating great opportunities.

Angola in attack.

It's VAVEL Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers.

Less than 25 minutes to start the game. Ghana has seven points in the standings, while Angola has four. Important game for the sequence of the qualifiers.

In the last two games between the two teams, Ghana won both.

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- Goalkeepers: Neblú (August 1st), Kadu (Alverca) and Hugo Marques (Petro de Luanda).



- Defenders: Jonathan Buatu (Valenciennes, Fra), Eddie Afonso (Petro de Luanda), Gigli Ndefe (Liberec, Che), Kialonda Gaspar (Estrela da Amadora, Por), Lulas (Sagrada Esperança), N&urio Fortuna (Gent, Bel) and Pedro (Petro de Luanda).



- Midfielders: Fredy (Antalyaspor, Tur), Beni Mukendi (Casa Pia. Por), Bruno Paz (Konyaspor, Tur), Show (Ludogorets, Bul), Keliano (August 1st), Megue ( Petro de Luanda) and Estrela (Erzurumspor, Tur).



- Advanced: Mabululo (Al lttihad, Egi), Gilberto (Petro de Luanda), Hélder Costa (Al Ittihad Jeddah, Ara), Gelson Dala (Al-Wakrah, Qat), Lucas João (Reading , Ing), Mbala Nzola (Spezia, Ita), Ary Papel (Al Akhdar, Lba), Nelson da Luz (Vitória de Guimarées, Por), and Zito Luvumbo (Cagliari, Ita).

Neblú; Ndefe, Gaspar, Buatu-Mananga, Carneiro; Fredy, Show, Helder Costa, Dala, Papel; Nzola.

Angola arrives for the duel with a defeat in the last match against Ghana itself. The team hasn't won in years. four games, where they drew three and lost one.

Goalkeepers: Lawrence Ati Zigi (FC St. Gallen), Abdul Manaf Nurudeen (Eupen), Joseph Wollacott (Charlton Athletic)

Defenders: Tariq Lamptey (Brighton and Hove Albion), Denis Odoi (Club Brugge), Gideon Mensah (Auxerre), Patrick Kpozo (Sheriff Tiraspol), Daniel Amartey (Leicester City), Joseph Aidoo (Celta Vigo), Mohammed Salisu (Southampton FC), Alexander Djiku (Strasbourg)

Midfielders: Thomas Partey (Arsenal FC), Majeed Ashimeru (RSC Anderlecht), Abdul Salis Samed (Lens), Edmund Addo (Spartak Subotica)

Forwards: Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace), Osman Bukari (Red Star Belgrade), Joseph Painstil (Genk), Kamal Deen Sulemana (Southampton FC), Ransford Yeboah Königsdörffer (Hamburger SV), Mohammed Kudus (Ajax Amsterdam), Andre Ayew (Nottingham Forest), Kamal Sowah (Club Brugge), Inaki Williams (Athletic Bilbao) and Antoine Semenyo (AFC Bournemouth).

Ati; Odoi, Amartey, Djiku, Mensah; Partey, Addo, Ayew, Kudus, Sulemana, Williams.

Ghana arrives for the confrontation with a victory against Angola itself in the last game. The team lost to Niger, in the African Nations Championship in the penultimate duel.

The African Cup of Nations Qualifiers is a qualifying tournament for the African Cup of Nations, the largest national team tournament on the African continent. The competition began to be played in March 2022, with a preliminary round of selections with the worst rankings within the continent. The group stage started to be played on the 1st of June last year, in which powerful teams are already playing.
There are 12 groups with four teams each, in which the first two are classified for the African Cup of Nations that will be played in Ivory Coast, in 2024.
The best teams in the FIFA rankings are seeded: Senegal, Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Cameroon, Algeria, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana and DR Congo. Of these, Senegal, Morocco, Cameroon and Ghana competed in the last World Cup, in which the Moroccan team made history and reached the semifinals of the tournament, eliminating the powerful Belgium, Spain and Portugal, falling to France, which would become vice of the world. to Argentina.
The African Cup of Nations will be played in Ivory Coast between the 5th and 28th of January next year. There will be six stadiums to host the tournament: the Ebimpé Olympic Stadium, with capacity for 60,000 and the stage for the final. Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium, Bouaké Peace Stadium, Korhogo Stadium, San Pédro Stadium and Iamussucro Stadium. The first two are in the same city of Abidjan.

It will be the 34th edition of the competition, which already has a very heavy name on the football calendar, where several athletes from the main leagues in the world play. The first edition took place in Sudan, in 1957, where Egypt thrashed Ethiopia 4-0 and became the inaugural champion of the tournament.
Egypt is the biggest champion of the competition with seven titles, being the last one in 2010. Mohamed Salah's team faces a long fast of 23 years without winning the competition, where he was runner-up in 2021 to Senegal, who won the first trophy of the competition .
Cameroon with five, Ghana with four, Nigeria with three, Ivory Coast, Algeria and DR Congo, both with two, are the biggest champions of the African competition. Zambia, Tunisia, Sudan, Senegal, Ethiopia, Morocco, South Africa and Congo complete the list with one title each. Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Guinea and Libya reached the final but never won the competition, while Equatorial Guinea reached a quarter-final.
By federation, UNAF, home to the northern countries, are the biggest winners. Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with 11 titles. WAFU, West Africa, with 10, joining Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. Then UNIFFAC in Central Africa with eight, joining Cameroon, DR Congo and Congo. Finally, CECAF, East Africa with Ethiopia and Sudan with two and COSAFA, South Africa with South Africa and Zambia, also with two.

The Angola vs Ghana game will be played at November 11th, with a capacity of 48.500 people.

My name is Thomas Alencar and I will be your host for this game. We will provide pre-match analysis, score updates and news as it happens live here on VAVEL.