Coach of Black Starlets of Ghana has highlighted some of the factors responsible for their fall to the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria in today's opener of the WAFU B U17 tournament, Nigeriasoccernet can report.
It wasn't the best of performance from the host who lost 4-2 to their West African brothers.
Describing the reasons for their defeat coach of the side Fabin Kwesi said:
"I don't want to make excuses but about three weeks to the competition, the FA President asked one of the CAF officials to conduct an MRI test and out of 28 players, 20 failed," he said.
"We collapsed. We couldn't play our usual game. The boys were a little bit jittery. They were playing long balls and our goalkeeper also didn't help us," Kwesi added.
To stand a chance in the next round, the Black Starlets now have to beat Togo in their next game.