Ghana faces a massacre of injuries before playing its destiny during the final days of qualifying for CAN 2025.
Monument in danger. Two points (2 defeats, 2 draws, zero victories), only 1 goal scored against 4 conceded. At the dawn of the 5th and 6th days of the playoffs of the CAN 2025the Ghanafour-time winner of the competition out of 9 contested finals, is dangerously in 3rd and penultimate place in group F, five lengths from the second qualifying place for the tournament occupied by Sudan.
To rally the Moroccohost of the 35th edition in 2025, the Black Stars must win their next two matches, Friday against the undefeated leader who has qualified since the 4th day, Angolathen against the last, the Nigeron November 18, while at the same time hoping for a double defeat for the Sudanese.
Eight packages, Ghana in trouble
While the equation already appears almost insoluble, several packages from last weekend complicate the enigma. In fact, no less than eight players were forced to withdraw due to injury or personal reasons. Inaki Williams (Bilbao), Alexander Djiku (Fenerbahçe) and Ibrahim Osman (Feyenoord) suffer from hamstrings.
Jonas Adjetey (Basel), Tariq Lamptey (Brighton) and Jerome Opoku (Basaksehir) experienced relapses. Antoine Semenyo (Bournemouth) is injured in the patellar tendon, and finally Joseph Paintsil is absent for personal reasons, indicated the Ghana Football Federation (GFA).
In this context, Osman Bukari (Austin FC), Ransford Yeboah Koningsdorffer (Hamburg SV), Forson Amankwah (Norwich City), Terry Yegbe (IF Elfsborg), Ebenezer Annan (0FK Beograd) and Kingsley Schindler (Samsunspor) were called in as reinforcements . But it will take, without tongue in cheek, an Ivorian miracle for the Ghanaians to win one of the last tickets for the CAN. The most cynical would say that the aforementioned absentees preferred to protect themselves in the face of what appears to be a hopeless case. But, everyone will have their own opinion.
