Why Dede Ayew and Baba Rahman are trending on social media after Ghana's 4-0 defeat to USA

Discussions around Ghana’s 4-0 mortifying defeat to the United States of America in the early hours of Wednesday, 18 October 2023 at the GEODIS Park have shot the name of Black Stars defender, Baba Rahman, and skipper Andre Dede Ayew into the top trends on social media.

Baba Rahman and Dede Ayew have harshly and unfortunately, become the face of the Black Stars' misfortunes lately as they are often scapegoated for the team’s poor strings of results.

Fortunately for the two players, they were not invited for the two games for the October 2023 friendlies which saw the team concede six goals in two games.

Baba Rahman’s replacement, Gideon Mensah stunk up in both games, producing performances that have seen him being called out by legendary footballer, Charles Taylor.

Charles Taylor on Angel TV called out Ghanaians for what he viewed to be a demonstration of hypocrisy over their silence on Gideon Mensah’s display.

“Our hypocrisy will kill us. If it was Baba Rahman who produced the performance by Gideon Mensah in the game, everyone would be talking about it. We would be talking about it everywhere. We should stop that. We should stop implying negativity in every situation. We should see football as being for everyone and not for just some people.

“If the player isn’t good, let’s drop him. When Baba Rahman plays, we don’t give him the credit but no one is talking about Gideon Mensah’s performance. If we don’t stop the hypocrisy and continue to hold people’s personal interest against some players, we will continue to suffer,” he said.

On social media, some Ghanaians are claiming vindication for Baba Rahman as they have finally come to the realization that Baba Rahman is not the problem with the Black Stars.

Gideon Mensah is also being slammed by social media users for being extremely poor in the game that he has replaced Baba Rahman.

Ghanaians are also claiming that Andre Ayew would have shown effort, desire and commitment if he was present in the team.



Watch the reactions below

Baba Rahman isn’t there so looks like nobody is committing errors today.

Harmless goals

— Saddick Adams (@SaddickAdams) October 18, 2023

No Dede and Baba Rahman to blame. Maybe now everybody go understand when I say they kiddies “no show we anything yet”. We can pull out stats to make them look good and hype them all we want but the truth is clear. I now understand why coaches kept playing the senior players.

— The Green Turf (@eliavot_) October 18, 2023

We only hype this guy cos Baba Rahman is sh*t but he then Baba no difference pic.twitter.com/68qPeTXurc

— Lατιf (@iLatif_) October 18, 2023

Dede Ayew and Baba Rahman right now. pic.twitter.com/MuAwzbUmyj

— Kwame Benaiah (@kwamebenaiah) October 18, 2023

Thank God Baba Rahman and Andre Ayew are not here.

Just thank God!!

— Muftawu Nabila Abdulai (@Muftawu_Nabila) October 18, 2023

I'm so glad Ghanaians are calling out Coach Chris Houghton for this abysmal performance and not blaming the GFA President Coaches in recent times have gotten away with ineptitude because we rather fail to scrutinize their work and bash GFA No Baba Rahman or Dreams excuse now

— Austine (@obiMpenaAustine) October 18, 2023

That Gideon Mensah guy dem for sack am from the team he is just useless no wonder dem dey play Baba Rahman ahead of him #BlackStars pic.twitter.com/NQ44Vjllti

— Mystical (@Mysticalgee2) October 18, 2023

I’m just glad there’s no Dede Ayew and Baba Rahman to blame lol

— Daniel Koranteng (@Dani77k) October 18, 2023

Whitewashing Dede Ayew and Baba Rahman in 2023. Christmas dey come. I dey barbecue the job. pic.twitter.com/dOFRqsSCmq

— M C K E N Z I E (@Nten_tan) October 18, 2023

If Baba Rahman was playing, by now he was trending already. Yeah it’s not him

— Henneh Vincent (@vincenthenneh1) October 18, 2023

Of course Baba Rahman is better than Gideon Mensah. PERIOD!

Black stars | Chris Hughton | pic.twitter.com/NlMyteF7wZ

— Nancy Brew (@nancybrewgh) October 18, 2023

The new boys don’t have to “prove themselves” to show that they deserve a starting spot over freaking Dede Ayew. Be serious. Focus on the actual issues.

— That Guy, Esq (@LordBogos) October 18, 2023

I speak for all Ghanaians when I say bring back Dede Ayew #BlackStars pic.twitter.com/1nFLKVaXvj

— Castrooooo???????? (@bfcastrooooo) October 18, 2023

Now y’all can testify with or without Dede Ayew, there’s a problem with the entire team.#BlackStars pic.twitter.com/66n6OUHYaw

— ???????????????????????????? (@EllertonEnock_) October 18, 2023