Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association [GFA], Bernhard Lippert has expressed dissatisfaction about the performance of the Ghana U-17 team at the WAFU tournament.
The Starlets failed to qualify for the U-17 AFCON after being eliminated from the ongoing WAFU U-17 Cup of Nations, following defeat to Ivory Coast on Tuesday.
Coach Ben Forkuo’s side was handed hurting 3-1 defeat to their Ivorian counterparts at the Stade de Kugue in Togo, where the tournament is currently ongoing.
Having drawn their first game against Nigeria, Ghana needed a draw to progress to the semi-finals of the competition but the team’s undoing came as a result of poor finishing and some dubious refereeing decisions by Togolese referee Vincentia Enyonam Amedome.
The win sends Cote D’Ivoire through to the semi-finals of the tournament with 6 points. Nigeria also qualifies with 1 point. While Ghana bows out of the tournament with 1 point.
Reacting to Ghana’s elimination from the tournament, Lippert said, “I’m not happy with the U17 performance, we have a really problems to score goals, we don’t have this kind of strikers who are real strikers” he said.
“But in all the referee decided this match today sorry to say this” he said.
“This was really obvious and there is a lot of things to do, this team today didn’t present himself as a team but still we’ve four or five prospects in the team.”
“We have to discuss the performance of the team at Executive Committee level and all the decisive people not me alone” he concluded.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Sylvester Ntim
