FT: United States 4-0 Ghana Venue: GEODIS Park
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United States
Matt Turner, Chris Richards (Cameron Carter-Vickers), Miles Robinson, Kristoffer Lund, Sergiño Dest, Giovanni Reyna (Weston McKennie), Yunus Musah (Luca de la Torre), Johnny Cardoso (Lennard Maloney), Folarin Balogun (Ricardo Pepi), Christian Pulisic (Brenden Aaronson), Timothy Weah.
Subs: Ethan Horvath, Joe Scally, Alejandro Zendejas, Tim Ream, DeJuan Jones, Kevin Paredes.
Ghana
Abdul Manaf Nurudeen, Jerome Opoku, Nicholas Opoku, Gideon Mensah (Kingsley Schindler), Alidu Seidu, Jordan Ayew, Edmund Addo, Thomas Partey (Salis Abdul Samed), Iñaki Williams (Antoine Semenyo), Joseph Paintsil (Elisha Owusu), Mohammed Kudus (Ernest Nuamah).
Subs: Hamidu Fatawu, Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer, Stephen Ambrosius, Richard Ofori, Lawrence Ati Zigi.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
10’ Goal! USA 1, Ghana 0. Giovanni Reyna (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
19’ Goal! USA 2, Ghana 0. Christian Pulisic (USA) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
22’ Goal! USA 3, Ghana 0. Folarin Balogun (USA) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Timothy Weah.
30’ Edmund Addo (Ghana) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
35’ Thomas Partey (Ghana) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
39’ Goal! USA 4, Ghana 0. Giovanni Reyna (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Pulisic following a set piece situation.
45’ Substitution, Ghana. Kingsley Schindler replaces Gideon Mensah.
45’ Substitution, USA. Brenden Aaronson replaces Christian Pulisic.
45’ Substitution, USA. Ricardo Pepi replaces Folarin Balogun.
45’ Substitution, USA. Weston McKennie replaces Giovanni Reyna.
64’ Substitution, Ghana. Elisha Owusu replaces Joseph Paintsil.
64’ Substitution, Ghana. Salis Abdul Samed replaces Thomas Partey.
65’ Substitution, USA. Lennard Maloney replaces Johnny Cardoso.
72’ Substitution, USA. Cameron Carter-Vickers replaces Chris Richards.
75’ Substitution, USA. Luca de la Torre replaces Yunus Musah.
75’ Substitution, Ghana. Antoine Semenyo replaces Iñaki Williams.
75’ Substitution, Ghana. Ernest Nuamah replaces Mohammed Kudus.
This might be a friendly but this is the most disgraceful game of football that I have ever seen. So called professional players sitting on the ball and they are using government money to travel to come to America and disgrace themselves.
2014 we lost but we went toe to toe. 2010 I still remember how we won and ofc 2006. 2018 we both fail to qualify for the World Cup.
Since then they have revamped their program, what have we done? Complete and utter incompetence! Making up tournament budgets to siphon money. Asking players for bribe to play for youth national teams. Hiring a coach who was sacked by Thailand just bc he did well in 2010, now you can influence him with your agency callups. The whole country, only one approved international stadium that is barely proper.
The Ghanaian football association is a disgrace and if we had serious politicians they would make sure it is dissolved! Using government funds to fly to America to sit on the balls on the pitch, to play like a high school team. For the Americans to pity you as you take your payout for organizing the friendly.
2009 u20 we beat Brazil. I still remember 2010, destroying Egypt in 2013. 2014 was a failure but we went toe to toe with Germany. 2015 we have everything. Stephen Appiah, sulley Muntari, Asamoah Gyan, Christian Atsu (rip), Kwadwo Asamoah, Dede Ayew.
We left Ghana when I was young but these were my heros. How I fell in love with football, it was because of Ghana. And if I fall out of love with football, it will be because of Ghana and the disgraceful, village way that we run football just like we run our country. So much potential wasted.
I don’t know as much as you, but this was also one of the best USMNT starting lineups in history. Your playing across the world away, and only lost to a Mexico that tied Germany by 1.
Ghana became one of our rivals out of coincidence, even if we aren’t anymore. Kinda like a fun mini rivalry. I do hope to see you guys play to the level your fans deserve once again. All love from the US.
They lost to Mexico by 2