2018 AWCON: Black Queens coach Bashiru Hayford looking forward to sharpen all rough edges before the tournament defeat to Zambia an "eye opener" ahead of AWCON

Black Queens coach Bashiru Hayford insists his team will be ready before the start of the African Women's Championship.

The Black Queens are currently on a training tour fining tune preparations head of the tournament which begins in three months.

On Saturday, they lost 3-2 to to the Shepolopolo in their first trial game.

Coach Bashiru Hayford believes his girls will take some lessons from the defeat as they continue preparations ahead of the Africa Women's Cup of nations.

“We came about three days ago and we were at Zambia, the coming was in batches, some came others also came later, the following day we had to play a match,” he told the media on their arrival in Nairobi.

“The approach was very bad but at the same time it was a very good training session for us.

“It is again an eye opener for us to get the standard of the East Africa teams as well as the West African teams and so we are here for a training tour, we are coming to play Kenya and see the standard here too and then when we go back home we will make amends and see how we will approach the tournament.”

Ghana have been drawn in group A and will open their campaign against Algeria on November 17th.