Ghana football legend, Mohammed ‘Polo’ Ahmed who is a contemporary of Nigeria’s Segun Odegbami has strongly tipped the Super Eagles to edge out Ghana in the final qualification play-off for the World Cup.
Both Nigeria and Ghana are pitched to fight for one of the five slots for Africa at the Qatar World Cup, the first ever to hold outside the regular June-July calendar.
Polo who was in the Black Stars team that drew 1-1 with Nigeria enroute their winning of the third Africa Cup of Nations title in 1978 was quoted by Ghanaweb as saying that the Black Stars will need a miracle to edge past Nigeria.
Ghana endured their worst ever performance at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations as the team exited the tournament without a win and just getting one point out of possible nine at the group stage.
According to Ghanaweb, Polo had been an avid critic of the Black Stars.
“What is happening will not help us. “Even if we are able to qualify for the World Cup, it will not help us. “Because this is not the quality,” Polo, who is AFCON winner with the Black Stars told Free FM.
“To be frank, football goes beyond logic. But you need a coach who can put certain things together so that if he is able to win then he can take us to the World Cup.”
“But to be frank, the quality of our football today, if we are able to go past Nigeria and go to the World Cup, we shall thank God. “But the World Cup is also a different thing,” he added.
Having missed out in 2018 in Russia, the Black Stars will be hoping to return to the Mundial for the fourth time in their history.
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