Yirenkyi scored in the last moments of the Panama goal – Photo: Thomas Mukoya / Reuters
The World Cup was brought by the rally of Group L his best match so farin which the English beat the Croatians 4-2. In the other match, at BMO Field in Toronto, a paper result was produced: Ghana crushed Panama 1-0. Caleb Yirenkyi scored the only goal in the fifth minute of extra time to give the African team 3 points.
In the first half, there were not many events worth mentioning, perhaps only that Panama started better, the Ghanaian goalkeeper had to save in the second minute. It is a telling statistic that the two teams had only four attempts to score in this period of the game, and only one shot on goal.
At the beginning of the second half we saw a more attacking Ghana, after a few minutes Adjetey threatened with a header. For a long time, it seemed that Panama would have the first World Cup point in their history, and they even had a chance to win, but Yirenkyi scored from close range at the end of a Ghanaian counterattack in extra time, and thus the Africans can be confident of advancing.
“Panama is a great team, they knew exactly how to play against us. We were also aware that they would probably control the game for the most part, but we grinded them down step by step, we had more and more opportunities, that was the plan. We gave them the territory to win the game that way” – quoted Nemzetisport.hu named Carlos Queiroz, the national team captain of the Ghanaians.
In the second round, the two winners of Group L, England and Ghana, will clash on Tuesday at ten in the evening Hungarian time, while Panama will meet Croatia at one in the morning on Wednesday.
