We Played For Penalties – Ghana Coach

We purposely stretched the match into penalty shootout because we knew that Nigeria did not know how to play penalty,” says Ghanaian Coach, Maxwell Konadu.

Konadu made the statement at a post match interview on Wednesday after Black Stars defeated Super Eagles 4-1 on penalty to qualify for the final of the third African Nations Championships (CHAN) in  South Africa.

Consequently Ghana will tomorrow in the final meet Libya which earlier defeated Zimbabwe 5-4 also on penalty shootout.

The full and extra times had ended goalless.

The two semi final matches were played on Wednesday at Free Town Stadium, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Konadu said that although the Eagles were better tactically, the team lacked penalty shootout scoring skill.

According to him, the Eagles would have scored within the 90 minutes time of the match but his boys matched them one on one to stretch the match to the penalty shootout.