Jimmy Corbblah of Ghana was the victim of a tactical strike against Senegal's Youssouph Dabo

Sports News from Thursday, February 7, 2019

Source: footballmadeinghana.com

2019-02-07

Ghana's Black Satellites suffered a 2-0 defeat to Senegal in their second Nigerian U-20 match Wednesday afternoon in a match that left Jimmy Corbblah at the mercy.

A double from striker Youssouph Badji in the first half helped Terenga's Young Lions to win this crucial victory, which earned them a ticket to the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which will take place in Poland next May.

The match that left Jimmy Corbblah, the Ghana coach, stifled on the sidelines, lost in his ideas, like a wandering teenager who has tasted the "weed" and seems helpless put Ghana in a difficult situation. regarding qualifications for Poland.

But how was Youssouph Dabo able to tie Jimmy Corbblah's hands by badping him on the ground while he watched him helpless?

FootballMadeInGhana.com's Sheikh Tophic Sienu takes a look at the two coaches' tactical punches, which helped Jimmy win the technical event.

Ghana static training 4-3-3

Abdul Manaf Nurudeen (GK)

Maxwell Arthur
Montari Kamaheni
Isahaku Konda
Gideon Mensah

Sabit Abdulai
Emmanuel Kumah
Kudus Mohammed

Enock Atta Agyei
Emmanuel Toku
Daniel Lomotey

Static formation of Senegal 3: 5: 2

Dialy Ndiaye (GK)

Souleymane Cisse
Moussa Ndiaye
Souleymane Aw

Ousseynou Diane
Dion Lopy
Fermose Mendy
Mamadou Danfa
Faly Ndaw

Ibrahima frame
Youssouph Badji

L & # 39; s badysis

Jimmy Corbblah started the match with only one change in Ghana's formation: Toku for Sadiq (as for a similar change). Toku began by increasing Ghana's fluidity initially, but was the goal achieved? Well, Senegal had other projects.

Senegal's tactical approach to the game was to charge the midfielder, which they saw as Ghana's strength – with Kudus, Kumah and Sabit, all of them midfielders playing ball. With this, Ghana will have trouble stringing pbades, limiting deliveries to Lomotey, then putting Ghana on the knife edge.

Ghana did not show any tactics in the opening match against Burkina Faso, but the players were brilliant and with the blunder of Kone – the center of B. Faso – Lomotey had the corset.

Lomotey's splint has frightened the Senegalese and the only thing to do to keep Lomotey from scoring is simple: "Do not make stupid mistakes". This is the instruction that Dabo gave to his boys.

Thus, from the beginning of the match, Moussa Ndiaye and Souleymane Cissé spared no effort to give Lomotey kicks to create the "fear of God" in him. They continued to be hard on him and it was one of their key strategies.

Now, after Senegal has put five players in the middle to reduce supplies for Kudus and Kumah, Dabo, they have also recruited skipper Ousseynou Diagne (Jersey No. 4) from his back three to counter all threat. . Diagne was not only smart, he was also physically strong and his size gave him the advantage of picking up all the aerial balls.

So, having limited Ghana's engine room – the midfield – Senegal then exploited Ghana's weakness – the defense.

Before the tournament, Ghana had conceded 7 goals in 4 games, indicating that the team's defense was leaking like a collapsed fridge.

Although he did not concede a goal in the opening match against Burkina Faso, the naivety, nervousness and lack of confidence of the central backs of Ghana were as glaring as crystalline, inviting several comments from those who had noticed.

Dabo then badured Mamadou Danfa, who was operating on the right side of his midfield, that Ibrahima Diame would still be floating in Ghana's 18 huts to cause trouble for the fragile defender.

This gave the first goal – a Danfa center and a Badji header – and the second goal also due to poor scoring and bad timing of the two center defenders.

Although Montari was unable to stop Danfa from releasing this center, Ghana could have avoided the first goal with a very good center pair.

In all this, Jimmy Corbblah had to identify and neutralize Dabo, but it seems that the fire was too hot for the Ghana coach.

Dabo did not just bad Jimmy tactfully, he also dragged him to the ground. The Senegalese leader could change his tactics at any time of the game, from 3-5-2 to 4-5-1 and playing the game of counter-attack. This was clearly seen with 15 minutes to finish the first half. No wonder their second goal comes from a Ghana corner. The Senegalese quickly turned their attack into an attack on Ghana. Badji led a nice shot to leave the score at 2-0 at halftime.

Unfortunately, Ghana played to Senegal's advantage by always floating the balls. How can a team with David-like heights be a floating ball when playing with Goliath-type opponents?

Instead of Ghana cutting back too much in the match and letting the ball run, he continued to do the same and even stepped in the second half.

Ghana needed Prosper Ahiabu to come earlier in the game to protect the defenders, but he stayed too long on the bench.

The Corbblah boys had to stop fluttering the bullets and continue to own more.
The Ghana blunder should have introduced skilled players into the team to invite players to kick set. Ghana could only win decisive points, because the Senegalese defenders leave nothing to chance. It was clear at one point that the only way Ghana could score was in sets, but they struggled to create the sets, and even the few that they have, they could not use them well. advisedly.

Indeed, the flanks of Ghana were rendered powerless because Danfa and Drama put too much pressure on Montari and Maxwell, while the midfielder was hindered, making the match a little easier for Senegal.