Nothing "Ghana" Stop Us Now....

Ghana to cause another stir
Wurburg, June 26, GNA - Ghana's Black Stars walk into an important knock out game against Brazil in Dortmund on Tuesday, believing upstaging the world champions is achievable.

The Ghanaians will be without influential midfielder, Michael Essien but still believe the task can be done without him.

The confidence of the team is an all time high, though the players are equally mindful of the strength of the highly favoured Brazilians, who won all three preliminary games to reach this far.

The duel is tagged as 91the game of the tournament' even before the two trek onto the field with their unique 'Agro' and "Samba" play to decide who gets to stay in the soccer fiesta.

Coach Ratomir Djukovic has often insisted the "Ghanaians are travelling as far as the last four' and his charges are well informed about the importance of the outcome if they are to have any chance of being counted among the first four in the world and breaking Africa's record in the history of the competition.
The Stars are ready to sparkle and they reckon upsetting the Brazilians presents a nice opportunity to underscore Roger Millar's prophecy 16 years ago about how well Ghana would come, when they qualified for the global event. Dujkovic believes in the ability of his team and when the

Stars walk onto the pitch in Dortmund, their priority will be to repeat their performances against Italians, Czech Republic and the United States of America.

The Serbian is not expected to change his line-up after Habib Mohammed seemed to have shaken off his injury at training on Sunday, with Asamoah Gyan and Sulley Ali

Muntari making a re-entry after missing the game against the Americans due to suspension.

It remains unknown what kind of tactics the coach would be hoping to map up against the talented Brazilians, who are likely to field a star-filled team that would have the Ronaldo's, Cafu's and the world number one, Ronaldinhno's and others.

The Stars accept that player wise, they are the huge underdogs in Tuesday's duel - a status they have enjoyed since the competition commenced on June 9. But their trump card will be the depth of the bond the team shares in their quest to prove a point.

Ronaldo and his colleagues are said to have described the strength of the West Africans with impunity, claiming the Stars are technically and tactically indisciplined.

But when skipper Stephen Appiah insisted the turf would decide the outcome of the match because the Ghanaians are ready to die for a decent result.
Above all, the team hopes for a miracle to ensure their chances are appropriately utilised to enable them to walk off the pitch chest high.
One thing which many expect the players to do is to avoid mistakes, and be alert during dead ball situations close to their defensive third and cut off ball suppliers to ensure the South American dribblers do not have a field day.

If there is another thing followers of the team would be yearning for, it is to resist the temptation of defending when it gets to the crunch.
Instead, they should force an all attacking game that would produce opportunities at goal.

Hopefully, the Stars will not be intimidated to fly in the tackles for fear of attracting cautions. They should play it tight all through.
The battle lines are drawn for a pretty game and with tickets sold out days before the game, one is swayed into thinking the atmosphere would even get better with a the blend of colours, cheers and all that charge the stadium.