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2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifier
Group G - Matchday 1
Ghana v Ethiopia
Cape Coast Sports Stadium
Cape Coast, Ghana
Friday, 3 September 2021
Ghana will play host to Ethiopia in their first
2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifier - Group G match on September 3.
The Black Stars played to a 0-0 draw with Ivory Coast in their last game which was an international friendly match in June this year.
Therefore, Ghana are winless in their last two matches across all competitions having recorded one defeat and one draw.
However, the Black Stars are undefeated in their last five home matches having registered four successive wins and one draw.
“We know all the teams. South Africa, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia will do their bit to get there [Qatar]," Charles Akonnor, Ghana head coach, said.
"But we will put in hard work and we know that hard work pays. The last [World Cup] we went to was in Brazil. We didn’t qualify for the last one. And we are hoping and believing that this is the time for us to be back there.
"But it is important for us to put in hard work. It is the desire for all the teams to qualify but we will put a lot of work in the desire to qualify.”
Ghana will be confident of continuing their dominance over Ethiopia's Walia Ibex when the two teams meet.
This will be the fifth meeting between the two teams across all competitions and Ghana have been dominant.
The West African giants have recorded three victories compared to Walia Ibex's one and the two teams are yet to play to a draw.
The last time Ghana hosted Ethiopia was on 26 November 1963.
It was the Black Stars, who emerged 2-0 winners over Walia Ibex in the 1963 Africa Cup of Nations Group A match at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Forty African teams have been drawn into ten groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches.
The winners of each group will advance to the third round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
Head-to-Head
Matches - 15
Ghana - 3
Ethiopia - 1
Draws - 2
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