Black Stars coach Avram Grant says the team was able to meet its set targets with the two friendlies played against Senegal and Mali on Saturday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The team drew 1-1 with Mali in Paris on Tuesday and Grant said after the match that he was happy with the team because the objectives set out for the matches were attained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we reached our targets in the last 7 days. Of course, the results are important but in friendlies, results are less important than in tournaments. We had the team for a short time which was about a week in a few months so we used the situation to try a new system. The team understood it very well against Mali and up until when I changed it, we led by a goal and created chances. Even the goal scored by Mali was down to a moment of inexperience from one of our players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chances for new players Grant also spoke on the opportunities given to some fringe players and said the scenario of fielding new players would be helpful for the team in future.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther players got to play in the matches. We played the second match without Jonathan Mensah, and at a point in the second half of the Mali match, we did not have John Boye. Razak Braimah was also not in the match and Baba Rahman was also not available. We can face such things in tournaments so we needed to try things out for ourselves. I am very happy with what I saw.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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