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Ghana 2-0 Morocco - January 28, 2008 / CAF Nations Cup 2008

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CAF Nations Cup 2008 - Group A

Ohene Djan Stadium - Accra - Ghana

January 28, 2008

Ghana

2 - 0

Morocco

(right foot) Michael Essien

26'

(left foot) Sulley Ali Muntari

44'

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26' - Goal Michael Essien26

44' - Goal Sulley Ali Muntari44

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46' - Substitution Houssine Kharjais substituted by Tarik Sektioui

55' - Substitution Hicham Aboucherouaneis substituted by Monsef Zerka

84' - Substitution Junior Agogois substituted by André Ayew84

89' - Substitution Quincy Owusu-Abeyieis substituted by Baffour Gyan photo Haminu Dramani

89' - Substitution Asamoah Gyanis substituted by Haminu Dramani89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Ghana

2 - 0

Morocco

Ghana Morocco

Team line-ups

Ghana

Kingson

Richard Kingson

Ghana

B.date13/06/1978

Age29 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Essien26

Michael Essien

Ghana

B.date03/12/1982

Age25 years

H1m77

positionCentral defender

Addo

Eric Addo

Ghana

B.date12/11/1978

Age29 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Paintsil

John Paintsil

Ghana

B.date15/06/1981

Age26 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Defender

Mensah

John Mensah

Ghana

B.date29/11/1982

Age25 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Sarpei

Hans Adu Sarpei

Ghana

B.date28/06/1976

Age31 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Annan

Anthony Annan

Ghana

B.date21/07/1986

Age21 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

Muntari44

Sulley Ali Muntari

Ghana

B.date27/08/1984

Age23 years

H1m79

positionLeft central midfielder

Owusu-Abeyie89

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie

Ghana

B.date15/04/1986

Age21 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Gyan89

Asamoah Gyan

Ghana

B.date22/11/1985

Age22 years

H1m86

positionStriker

Agogo84

Junior Agogo

Ghana

B.date01/08/1979

Age28 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Richard Kingson		29	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Essien	26	25	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eric Addo		29	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Paintsil		26	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John Mensah		25	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Hans Adu Sarpei		31	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Anthony Annan		21	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sulley Ali Muntari	44	23	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie	89	21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Asamoah Gyan	89	22	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Junior Agogo	84	28	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Morocco

Lamyaghri

Nadir Lamyaghri

Morocco

B.date13/02/1976

Age31 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Ouaddou

Abdeslam Ouaddou

Morocco

B.date01/11/1978

Age29 years

H1m90

positionRight central defender

Chrétien

Michaël Chrétien

Morocco

B.date10/07/1984

Age23 years

H1m79

positionCentral defender

Erbate

El-Amine Erbate

Morocco

B.date01/07/1981

Age26 years

H1m81

positionCentral defender

El Karkouri

Talal El Karkouri

Morocco

B.date08/07/1976

Age31 years

H1m86

positionRight central defender

Safri

Youssef Safri

Morocco

B.date03/01/1977

Age31 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

Kharja46

Houssine Kharja

Morocco

B.date09/11/1982

Age25 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

Kabous

Abderrahman Kabous

Morocco

B.date24/04/1983

Age24 years

H1m85

positionCentre Midfield

Aboucherouane55

Hicham Aboucherouane

Morocco

B.date02/04/1981

Age26 years

H1m82

positionStriker

Hadji

Youssouf Hadji

Morocco

B.date25/02/1980

Age27 years

H1m83

positionSecond striker

Chamakh

Marouane Chamakh

Morocco

B.date10/01/1984

Age24 years

H1m85

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Nadir Lamyaghri		31	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Abdeslam Ouaddou		29	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michaël Chrétien		23	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	El-Amine Erbate		26	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Talal El Karkouri		31	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Youssef Safri		31	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Houssine Kharja	46	25	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Abderrahman Kabous		24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Hicham Aboucherouane	55	26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Youssouf Hadji		27	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Marouane Chamakh		24	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
F	André Ayew	84	18	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Baffour Gyan	89	27	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Haminu Dramani	89	21	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Tarik Sektioui	46	30	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Monsef Zerka	55	26	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Anthony Annan

Laryea Kingston

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Hicham Aboucherouane

Tarik Sektioui

OUT

Marouane Chamakh

Monsef Zerka

OUT

Nadir Lamyaghri

Khalid Fouhami

OUT

Abderrahman Kabous

Abdelkarim Kissi

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Claude Le Roy

Success rate in this team:

64 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Le Roy vs Morocco

3 victories

3 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on January 28, 2008

Le Roy vs Michel

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 28, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Henri Michel

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Michel vs Ghana

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 28, 2008

Michel vs Le Roy

0 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 28, 2008

Referee

Modou Sowe

1 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Ghana2 matches	General total	Morocco1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Ghana1 match	Season total	Morocco1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on January 28, 2008					Latest figure on January 28, 2008

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Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Morocco after 7 matches with at least one goal scored (since 17/10/2007). It was the best streak for the club since 05/06/2004-04/06/2005 (8 matches).

Ghana keeps its 4 matches with only one goal conceded at most vs Morocco running (since 07/06/1997). It's a record streak. The first of history

It's the first time Michael Essien scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

Read the next 18 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VGhana 2-1 Burkina Faso05/06/2005

VGhana 2-0 Uganda04/09/2005

VGhana 2-0 Togo18/11/2007

VGhana 4-2 Benin21/11/2007

VGhana 2-1 Guinea20/01/2008

VGhana 1-0 Namibia24/01/2008

Overall

VGhana 2-0 Morocco08/09/2007

LSaudi Arabia 5-0 Ghana11/09/2007

VGhana 2-0 Togo18/11/2007

VGhana 4-2 Benin21/11/2007

VGhana 2-1 Guinea20/01/2008

VGhana 1-0 Namibia24/01/2008

Current form

Away

DTunisia 2-2 Morocco08/10/2005

DEgypt 0-0 Morocco24/01/2006

VUnited States 0-1 Morocco23/05/2006

DZimbabwe 1-1 Morocco25/03/2007

VMalawi 0-1 Morocco16/06/2007

DFrance 2-2 Morocco16/11/2007

Overall

DFrance 2-2 Morocco16/11/2007

VMorocco 3-0 Senegal21/11/2007

VMorocco 2-0 Zambia12/01/2008

VMorocco 2-1 Angola16/01/2008

VNamibia 1-5 Morocco21/01/2008

LGuinea 3-2 Morocco24/01/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	6	4
Unbeaten streak	13	4
Drawless streak	6	6
Scoring streak	6	4
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	11	0
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	0	5
Scoring streak	4	7
Conceding streak	1	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

2	Number of games (Competition total)	2
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
2	Victories (Competition total)	1
2	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

3	Goals scored (Competition total)	7
3	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals conceded (Competition total)	4
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	3.5
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0.5	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2
0.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
1	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
2-1 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

4	Yellow cards (Competition total)	1
4	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Sulley Ali Muntari	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Soufiane Alloudi
Sulley Ali Muntari	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Asamoah Gyan	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Tarik Sektioui
Asamoah Gyan	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Junior Agogo	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 2 matches	Soufiane Alloudi

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

1 v

2 d

1 l

5 gf

4 ga

Away

4 matches

0 v

1 d

3 l

1 gf

5 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

2 gf

1 ga

Total

11 matches

2 v

4 d

5 l

8 gf

10 ga

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

3 v

1 d

0 l

5 gf

1 ga

Away

4 matches

1 v

2 d

1 l

4 gf

5 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

1 gf

2 ga

Total

11 matches

5 v

4 d

2 l

10 gf

8 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	September 08, 2007
Home	2 - 0	October 26, 1975

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	November 09, 1975
Away	2 - 1	June 30, 1968

Latest head to head

September 08, 2007 - Rencontres amicales 2007

Ghana

2 - 0

Morocco

January 21, 2002 - CAN 2002

Morocco

0 - 0

Ghana

June 07, 1997 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Afrique 1998

Morocco

1 - 0

Ghana

January 12, 1997 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Afrique 1998

Ghana

2 - 2

Morocco

March 16, 1980 - CAN 1980

Morocco

1 - 0

Ghana

Best historical scorers against Morocco

Samuel Johnson	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Ahmed Barusso	1 goal	2007 - 2007
Frank Amankwah	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Junior Agogo	1 goal	2007 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/03/1980. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Ghana

Mustapha Hadji	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Khalid Raghib	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Salaheddine Bassir	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Khaled Elbied	1 goal	1980 - 1980

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/03/1980. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Morocco

Samuel Kuffour	3 matches	1997 - 2002
Abedi Ayew Pelé	2 matches	1997 - 1997
Emmanuel Duah	2 matches	1997 - 2002
Foster Bastios	2 matches	1997 - 1997
Princeton Owusu-Ansah	2 matches	1997 - 2002
Matthew Amoah	2 matches	2002 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/03/1980. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Ghana

Youssef Chippo	3 matches	1997 - 2002
Noureddine Naybet	3 matches	1997 - 2002
Salaheddine Bassir	3 matches	1997 - 2002
Abdelkrim El Hadrioui	2 matches	1997 - 1997
Youssef Safri	2 matches	2002 - 2007
Youssef Rossi	2 matches	1997 - 1997