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| Ghana's hopes Olympic Games "hinges on hope" after 3-2 loss to Egypt |
Ghana's hopes of Tokyo 2020 Olympic games appears to be hanging on hope following a 3-2 loss to Egypt in the ongoing U-23 African Cup of Nations in Egypt.
The Black Meteors of Ghana threw away two leads on the night after skipper of the side, Yaw Yeboah and Samuel Obeng both put Ghana 1-0 and 2-1 up respectively.
The result leaves the Meteors on one point after two matches and they will have to get a favorable result against Mali on Thursday if the dream of making it to the olympic games for the first time since 2004.
Speaking minutes after the game, head coach of the side, Ibrahim Tanko opined that the qualification of the team to the Olympic games now hinges on hope as the team will do everything within their means to qualify.
" We played a great game but lost in the end, this is football. I congratulate Egypt on qualifying. We will play to win against Mali and hope for a favorable result from Egypt match against Cameroon".
For Ghana to qualify from the group, they will have to beat Mali by a good scoreline to get a positive goal difference while hoping for Egypt to beat Cameroon by a scoreline that leaves the Cameroonians on a negative goal difference.
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