1. The leaking defence. This is too obvious to the world. To score Ghana, try these 3 things. Send the ball to the edge of the penalty box. Ghana is unable to deal with swift attacks on the wings. You are likely to score if you shoot through a goalmouth melee around the Ghana box. When you ran with the ball into the Ghana 18 yard box, you are most likely to earn a penalty from a Ghana error.
2. Childish goal celebration. The match is midstream and, yet Ghana celebrates goals as if the game is wrapped up. They lose concentration when game resumes and concede goals. The over joyous goal celebration leads the team back to ground zero.
3. Retreating defence. The Ghanaian defence always retreats anytime there are raids on them. Instead of some players moving upfront to confront the surging attack on the team, the defenders ran into their own 18 yard box to the arrival of the ball in that danger zone.
4. Reading in-between the lines, and it does look very much the case, that opponents of Ghana watch the team’s video clips to respond accordingly. Ghana’s game plan doesn’t look a rehearsed strategy but instinctive play which manifests as disorderly on the field.
5. The early retirement and high attrition of players in the Ghana team. Before one could say jack, a whole generation of players is replaced with new batch.
6. Ghana has poor penalty shooting technique and subsequently missed penalties show that the team doesn’t learn from past mistakes. Standing close by the ball before effecting the spot kick, can only result in lack of power on the ball and your direction is fairly predictable. The kick by left footed players is even more predictable as the direction of their kick often move to the right.
7. Selfish interests of some players. It does a team a lot of good if they play as a unit than the individual’s selfishness of trying to obtain particular statistics in goal scoring. Ghana is always haunted by the selfish interests within, thus the other viable options in the team are often ignored.
8. Dribbling skills are inherent and endowments in singular names. Not everybody can be good dribbler and, indeed there are only a few of such talents. The lack or the absence of dribblers and ball jogglers in the Ghana team, are major reasons the midfield is not lubricated and the attack labours to move upfront.
9. The huge crowd of officials around the playing body, off the pitch is distractive to the team. It therefore looks more like a partying agenda than a focused mission.
10. Constituting the team in the last minutes before tournaments or matches is definitely a deficiency in Ghana football. This expresses itself in disharmonious and disjointed play. The remedy to this is a team development module, in which there are core members and additions along the path of progression.
11. The current generation of players must be made to watch past clips of the Black Stars, especially in the period of laurels and other significant strides. Succeeding generations or new players ought to be made aware they are filling the huge shoes of stars of yesteryear. This might inspire them to play above themselves.