{"id":44456,"date":"2025-09-05T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=44456"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:49:54","slug":"fifa-wcq26-five-things-we-learned-from-blackstars-vs-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-wcq26-five-things-we-learned-from-blackstars-vs-chad\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA WCQ26 : Five things we learned from BlackStars vs Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I cringed hard watching the Black Stars of Ghana draw 1-1 against Chad at Ndjamena in a game everyone hotly tipped them to win.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If for nothing else, the 2026 FIFA World Cup was staring them in the face, with Ghanaians very critical of securing qualification to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"FIFA WCQ 26 : BlackStars fail to win against Chad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-wcq-26-blackstars-fail-to-win-against-chad\/\">FIFA WCQ 26: BlackStars fail to win against Chad<\/a><br \/>\nOtto had a chunk of his regulars (Jordan Ayew, Mohammed Kudus, Thomas Partey, and Antoine Semenyo) available for selection, so by no means would he have any excuse to blame personnel for why the team failed to live up to expectations in faraway Ndjamena.<br \/>\nSince knowing Otto Addo as the Black Stars head coach, he has experimented with several games, marshalling personnel to suit his tactics; some have worked(five wins in six prior matches), while others have not.<br \/>\nI picked some observations from the game.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"Lawrence Agyekum assists in Westerlo demolition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/lawrence-agyekum-assists-in-westerlo-demolition\/\">Lawrence Agyekum assists in Westerlo demolition<\/a><br \/>\nOtto Addo has come under intense pressure many times, and as such, this game won&#8217;t spare him any of the pleasantries. For a team that needed a win badly to bolster their chances of securing World Cup qualifications, this was a game that had a lot riding on it. In his press conference, where he remarked that his team was not going to underrate their opponents (CHAD), they did exactly the opposite of everything he said in that presser.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"\u201cWe feel good\u201d \u2013 Semenyo optimistic ahead of World Cup qualifers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/we-feel-good-semenyo-optimistic-ahead-of-world-cup-qualifers\/\">\u201cWe feel good\u201d \u2013 Semenyo optimistic ahead of World Cup qualifiers<\/a><br \/>\nThe other thing I will touch on is his game management skills, which don\u2019t equate to the relentless pacing about on the touchline. I feel that if he had invested a lot in his in-game management, that would have been very crucial for the outcome of the game, as seen in the lethargy.<br \/>\nFor a team that has been berated over the past for its lack of motivation and willpower, playing for the country of their birth, one would have expected the players to play a little above their normal weight levels against Chad, but that wasn\u2019t what we saw in the game.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"2026 World Cup: Otto Addo names Black Stars squad for Chad and Mali qualifiers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/2026-world-cup-otto-addo-names-black-stars-squad-for-chad-and-mali-qualifiers\/\">2026 World Cup: Otto Addo names Black Stars squad for Chad and Mali qualifiers<\/a><br \/>\nIn the first half, they could have willingly buried the game by not more than three goals to the good, but a myriad of missed opportunities meant that they closed the first half with just a goal in the bag.<br \/>\nIn the second half, they casually strolled the length and breadth of the park with no real sense of urgency. It was as though the game meant nothing to them, but trust you me, this was a game where a win would have aided qualification chances for the technical team to refresh the squad against Mali in Accra, but I guess the players may know something we don\u2019t know, reason they churned such a lackluster performance for Ghanaians to consume on a working Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"Belgian side RAAL La Louviere sign Jerry Afriyie on loan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/belgian-side-raal-la-louviere-sign-jerry-afriyie-on-loan\/\">Belgian side RAAL La Louviere sign Jerry Afriyie on loan<\/a><br \/>\nI have always known that injecting fresh legs into a game is a way of giving your team that superiority factor it needs to stay and dominate the game. If there is an area that needs working on, it\u2019s the area of substitution. Otto introduced fresh limbs with thirteen minutes to end proceedings, Kamaldeen and Bonsu, which I feel should have come a bit earlier, considering how the pair progressed the ball quickly, threatened the opposition defense with a lot of marauding runs and shots. Earlier substitutions could have injected the urgency and dynamism the team lacked.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"Bibiani GoldStars clinch 2025 GHALCA Top 4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/bibiani-goldstars-clinch-2025-ghalca-top-4\/\">Bibiani GoldStars clinch 2025 GHALCA Top 4<\/a><br \/>\nIn the aftermath of this draw against Chad, there has been a lot of talk in town. The politics surrounding the Black Stars got even more intense and keener. Hopefully, the game against Mali will provide sweet tidings for the home folks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cringed hard watching the Black Stars of Ghana draw 1-1 against Chad at Ndjamena in a game everyone hotly tipped them to win. If for nothing else, the 2026 FIFA World Cup was staring them in the face, with Ghanaians very critical of securing qualification to the World Cup. READ MORE: FIFA WCQ 26:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17014,8417],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2026-fifa-world-cup","8":"category-featured"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Black-Stars-vs-Nigeria-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C2170&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-bz2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44450,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-wcq-26-blackstars-fail-to-win-against-chad\/","url_meta":{"origin":44456,"position":0},"title":"FIFA WCQ 26 : BlackStars fail to win against Chad","author":"Raphael Bannerman-Quartey","date":"September 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Black Stars played out a 1-1 draw with Chad in Ndjamena in the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup. 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