Hearts of Oak laud Barnieh, Alhassan and Awako as Black Galaxies beat Benin in CHAN qualifier

Hearts of Oak have commended their players including Daniel Afriyie Barnie, Mohammed Alhassan and Gladson Awako for their impressive display as Ghana thrash Benin 3-0 in the penultimate round of the Championship of Africans Nations 1st leg qualifier.

The trio was on target at the Cape Cast stadium on Sunday as the Black Galaxies crusied to a comfortable victory.

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Afriyie Barnieh opened the scoring for Ghana in the 25th minute before his club teammate Mohammed Alhassan doubled their advantage four minutes.

Alhassan smashed a rebound into the bottom right corner after the visitors failed to deal with a corner kick.

Benin goalkeeper Serge Obassa made a great save to deny Ghana a third goal as Osei-Wusu’s effort from close range was parried away for a corner kick.

After the recess, skipper Awako put the icing on the cake after he curled a lovely ball into the roof of the net for the third goal of the day.

The Black Galaxies kept a larger part of the ball to confuse their opponents as Annor Walkers’ men held on to win the 1st leg 3-0 in Ghana.

The 2nd leg of the fixture is scheduled for Saturday, July 30, 2022 in Porto-Novo.