Caleb Yirenkyi scored a Ninety fifth-minute winner for Ghana as they beat Panama 1-0 in a dramatic finale to this Group L conflict in Toronto.
Panama had proved greater than a match for Carlos Queiroz’s workforce in what was a largely uneventful recreation as the talents of Antoine Semenyo had been stifled by the Central American facet who had been trying to declare their first World Cup level on the fourth try.
Ghana didn’t also have a shot in a cautious first half. But it surely was they who discovered the winner when Coventry Metropolis’s Brandon Thomas-Asante, on in its place, discovered house down the left and located Yirenkyi along with his low cross to drive the ball into the web.
The important thing moments from Toronto…
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2: Panama begin brightly and Waterman forces an early save.
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58: Thomas-Asante comes on for Ghana and injects extra urgency.
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60: Martinez shoots into the side-netting from shut vary for Panama.
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65: Ayew is ready up by Semenyo for a tap-in however Ramos by some means tackles him.
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90+5: GOAL! Yirenkyi forces the ball house from shut vary to win the sport.
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90+9: Goalkeeper Mosquera wins a header within the field as Panama chase an equaliser.
Evaluation: Ghana punish Panama
It was merciless on Panama whose hopes of development seem unlikely on condition that their remaining fixtures are towards England and Croatia. For Ghana, they might want to enhance. However scoring the newest winner of the World Cup up to now is a second to cherish.
“We battled like warriors,” mentioned Queiroz. “We won the game with our brains. First we had to suffer against a great team. They know how to play. We knew they would control the game. But step by step, our strategy was to let them come. This is the way to win.”
