"It's very small on their part, but that's how it is with small teams," said Ayew, his face closed at a press conference.

Author of the opener (18th), the captain disputes the fact that the "Panthers" played a ball put into touch by Baba Rahman, because Daniel-Koffi Kyereh was on the ground.

And it was on this action that Jim Allevinah equalized (88th).

The Ghanaian delegation was mad with rage against this goal.

"Dédé" Ayew was furious, his brother Jordan too.

At the end of the match a fight even broke out in the center of the field.

"You're not going to blame me for the lack of fair play, it's not possible!"

thundered Patrice Neveu, the coach of Gabon.

Ghana "has lacked fair play up to this point", "didn't stop breaking the game" and "their goalkeeper won a lot of time, he even got booked for that", he said. -he adds.

“Fair play is giving the ball back”

"We're the ones who put the ball in touch, fair play in football is to return the ball, otherwise they don't score. They had no chance," Ayew enraged.

Anger misleads the Black Stars captain, the Panthers pushed all second half, and Jim Allevinah (59th) and Aaron Boupendza (62nd, 85th) had goal balls.

The Ghanaians may regret being content to defend in the second half.

They had scored a nice goal, where "Dédé", ex-Marseille star did everything alone: ​​oriented control to turn around Anthony Oyono and hit close to the post.

The Panthers also have merit, they were still playing without their two stars, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mario Lemina, for some Covid residues detected when they had passed a negative test the day before.

The captain of the Black Stars of Ghana André Ayew has just opened the scoring against Gabon in group C of the CAN in Yaoundé, January 14, 2022 Kenzo Tribouillard AFP

Patrice Neveu, the French coach of Gabon, was also deprived of two holders in defense, Sidney Obissa and Lloyd Palun, but also of Gilchrist Nguéma, Patrice Neveu, released, him, by a negative Covid test the morning of the match, had to redial a defense, with three elements.

His players were able to celebrate with their corner of supporters this point which almost guarantees them a place in the round of 16, at worst among the best third.

The contested goal came from a cross shot by Allevinah, who set the stage at the Amadou Ahidjo omnisports stadium, a little full this time (7,042 spectators) thanks to the Gabonese colony, a neighboring country of Cameroon.

Meanwhile, Ghanaians cringed.

"We will swallow the pill, we will make sure to win the next match, and we hope that the 4 points will be enough for us to move on to the next round", concluded André Ayew.

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