00:00Black stars in yellow on the left of your screen and
00:05Scorpions of the Gambia in white in what is an all West African affair
00:18So we are underway on Match Day 2 in Group C of Total Energies Africa Cup of Nations 2027
00:27qualifying Ghana the home side playing from left to right all in yellow the Gambias
00:36a strip of all white of the Scorpions more defensive
00:42okay negative style of football that is often labelled with
00:56Nuba
00:57just ran out of room there Leon Mann
01:01such an exciting player to watch
01:04here's Nuba
01:08really good to see Romani Muhammad but also
01:12back to longer term project under Kiros
01:15as Gambia stride forward cut back into the middle and it's just not going to reach
01:21Suleiman Kamara but still they come forward
01:26and a chinking run ends in a shot towards goal the first of the game
01:33even if
01:36Maggie Sainé's cup form to this game or
01:40stuff we saw in the last Africa Cup of Nations
01:45in the last Africa Cup of Nations
01:46Fina Chan just having gone a bit too early
01:50outside
01:52against the 23 year old now based in Turkey
02:083 in the middle
02:10four now and arriving at the back post but Collie away
02:15as Ghana tried to fashion a chance at the midway point of the opening half
02:24and yet to get a shot away unlike their opponents
02:30Nuba who's just popping up all over the park and that's a lovely ball forward
02:35can Ghana get a strike away
02:37Nafina Jan with it he does so and he forces a corner as well
02:41Gay getting his body in the way
02:43well that was a super pass from deep in the midfield by Nuba
02:50finding Nafina Jan good running from him and
02:55almost squeezing it in and ends in and around the penalty spots
02:59doesn't make it that far it's a penalty instead
03:03Badamosi the player adjust to a foul
03:09and Ghana who have started this game very very gently
03:15have the perfect opportunity from 12 yards
03:20to take the lead and
03:23find their first goal in Group C
03:30let's have a look
03:34contact
03:35contact was light
03:45trying to find a first Ghanaian goal in a while
03:51as she does expertly taken by Nuba
03:54Nuba drilled into the bottom corner and Ghana lead
04:00it has not been the most impressive of a start but that does not matter
04:06because they are on the board
04:10courtesy of Ernest Nuba
04:18a little slip as he took it
04:21but unerring in the finish
04:23even though Gay went the right way
04:28really good take
04:29to be a finder instant riposte
04:33delivered
04:34not even beginning to
04:38give any of his teammates a chance the delivery there from
04:42Mubaka Barry
04:46just sizing up his options
04:50the ball pretty much going room one up to Badamosi flicks it forward
04:53this is better from the Gambia
04:56and that's a really important block as well to Danai Kamara
05:00because it was just opening up for him
05:04and had the intervention not come in
05:07well could the Gambia be level
05:09Badamosi with a really good flick and then look at the setup
05:13and Opoku
05:15the pressure
05:17Afina Jan
05:20and the Black Stars have a free kick on the edge of the D
05:44and in the blink of an eye
05:52the Black Stars have a free kick on the edge of the D
05:55and the Black Stars are soaring
06:02only his second goal
06:06for the Ghanaians
06:08didn't he take it well the former Roma man
06:14you have to go back to 2022 for the last time Afina Jan
06:19found the net for the Black Stars
06:21but you wouldn't know it from the way he dispatched that beautiful curling effort
06:25beating the wall
06:28and Gay
06:36a smile to follow as well
06:39and
06:42well this game it's
06:46and there's another possibly because a penalty has been awarded to the Gambia
06:52well what a first half this has been
06:58incidents are plenty
06:59the referee at the center of it no doubt as to who will be taking the penalty and you can
07:05see
07:12well the complaints have gone on too long
07:15for Opoku
07:23up steps Padamosi who makes no mistake
07:28and the Gambia have halved the deficit
07:32and he has his sixth goal in Gambian colors
07:37and delighted those supporters and those watching in Banjul and elsewhere
07:43very coolly taken by the 27 year old just lifting it over the goalkeeper
07:58not a lot of time to work with his charges
08:01flicked on is this the equalizer
08:03well it is on the turn
08:05how about that
08:07they were 2-0 down
08:08and they brought it back to make it 2-2
08:12and Omar Kohli the skipper is celebrating
08:17well what metal they are showing here the Scorpions
08:21and how they have stung
08:24because just like Garner who scored two goals
08:28in just a few minutes well the trick has been repeated by the visitors
08:32Touré's foe flicked on
08:35and Kohli well the first touch to set and then the swivel
08:39and the finish as well
08:43only his fourth goal ever
08:49for his nation
08:51and that from a man who made his debut in 2012
08:57so a quick fire double from Badamosi and Kohli
09:00and that's a red card to a member of the Gambian staff
09:06well he is having a very very busy day
09:11two penalties awarded a red card
09:15a yellow card to Carlos Kiros
09:18who normally has decent delivery
09:22just sees a little flick
09:24and it's behind for a corner
09:28and it was put into the right area
09:31Seyde
09:39just putting it where it needed to go
09:42he do
09:42no play on says the referee
09:46that's just a fraction over the crossbar
09:49well
09:50Agite
09:51I don't think he was going for goal
09:53but he almost found it
10:00this opening period
10:05sure enough the half-time whistle blows
10:07and nothing to separate Garner and the Gambia
10:11despite the hosts taking a two-goal lead
10:14well on the half-hour mark
10:16a look of frustration on the face of Carlos Kiros
10:19the Black Stars boss
10:20because his side have thrown away that two-goal lead
10:23the Premier League this season Thomas Asante where he is yet to score
10:27right now
10:29to watch the remain
10:30that this encounter in 2023 was Garner's last
10:36here's Nuba
10:38a little ball around the corner
10:40between the champ
10:42bodies Dwayne that's in the middle
10:44in it goes and headed away
10:48and again
10:50nicely played by Barry
10:53looking to play it into the middle
10:56Sanyang with it
10:57and Sanyang straight at Azari
11:02they off into Nuba
11:04Jinkie driving to the byline
11:06he goes and
11:07third behind
11:10at the expense of a corner
11:15Sanyang with the strike
11:16which takes a deflection
11:18takes the power out of the effort
11:21the Gambia behind
11:22Comoros and Tunisia
11:24it's a dangerous ball in
11:25and that's just hooked high
11:27behind the goal
11:31the game that is really important for this group is
11:38the one between the group rivals Somalia
11:42and Cote d'Ivoire Ivory Coasters
11:46Benjamin Tete
11:48Marner
11:50and still Suleymane
11:51drives a goal
11:53and
11:54Gay was sprawling
11:58they were hoping
12:00hope that that wasn't going to be it
12:04well not the worst effort
12:06from the substitute
12:10okay I'm sure we'll say
12:11he had it covered
12:16oh that's better
12:17and that's a mistake at the back
12:18and a chance for the Gambia
12:20oh they have taken it
12:21from 2-0 down to 3-2 up
12:24calamity in defense
12:28for the Black Stars
12:31and now they've got to come from behind
12:34themselves
12:36well what is going on in Ghanaian football
12:40and why are they fighting victories and
12:43so hard to come by
12:46in the Africa Cup of Nations
12:55well that was not
12:58impressively done
12:59but he won't mind
13:01and Ibrie McCauley
13:04tucked away supremely well
13:06look at that
13:07and the confidence from the edge of the area
13:09just relieved
13:11by the fact that
13:12their great rivals are struggling as well
13:14is this an opportunity to draw level
13:16Numa cannot take it
13:20with his technique
13:22he's the man you would have wanted it to fall to
13:24especially when he could cut across it like that on his left foot
13:29over the top can that help them nice first touch
13:35the less said about that the better
13:40and shake of the head
13:42and look to the head
13:49commenter
13:50and it back in
13:52okay
13:55just take his time
13:57take some of that pressure off them
13:59nicely played
14:00could they wrap it up here
14:01oh they can
14:02that's brilliant
14:04the fourth for the Gambia
14:06to settle this and hammer the final nail
14:09in the Ghanaian coffin
14:12and the black stars
14:15have been sunk
14:16and the Gambia are celebrating
14:18a victory that will mean a huge amount to them
14:23maximum points from their opening two games in group c
14:28they are flying up the table
14:30as for Ghana
14:31well they are sinking ever deeper
14:33on the counter
14:35it seems as if it was about relieving pressure
14:39instead it was about wrapping up the win
14:49excellent ball in
14:51excellent ball in
15:12and the final whistle secures
15:14a victory that they will never forget in the Gambia
15:17against their west african rivals
15:19Ghana
15:21what a display
15:25maximum points for their opening two games
15:29Ghaner meanwhile
15:31yet to avoid defeat from their
15:33first two
15:34away to Ivory Coast
15:35and now at home to the Gambia
15:37they were two goals up
15:39after strikes
15:40from Ernest Nouwen from the penalty spot
15:42and Felix Afina Jan shortly after
15:45that was 33 minutes gone
15:46and then the comeback began
15:48Mohamed Badamosi led it
15:50Omar Colley leveled things up for the Gambians before half-time
15:54and in the second period
15:55a double from substitute
15:57Abri McCauley
15:57that man wearing number 19
15:59wrapped up the points
16:00is going to be a long interim period
16:02for the Black Stars
16:04a lot of explaining to do
16:07and a lot of work to do
16:08for the Ghan
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