Ghana international Jonathan Mensah is confident Ghana can win the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), however, he will have to pay attention to the little details that matter.
Since 1982, Ghana has failed to add to it's four Nations Cup despite reaching the finals on three occasions, with the latest in 2015.
According to the FIFA U-20 World Cup winner, the team has come close on several occasions but the little details needed to win the competition is missing.
“We have kept knocking. I think we don’t need to do big things to win. Cameroon won the last without doing anything extraordinarily big, but by paying attention to the little details,” the defender told Atinka FM.
“We’ve been in the semis in five consecutive AFCONs. We are always favourites but we haven’t won. We all need to know what we need to do and fix that missing link. I think we can win it.”
Mensah has played in two Africa Cup of Nations finals (2010 and 2015).
The Columbus Crew centre-back is enjoying a fantastic season in the Major League Soccer and has been nominated for the 'Defender of the Year award' alongside national team colleague Harrison Afful.
The ex-Anzhi Makhachkala player was recently recalled to the senior national team for the 2019 AFCON qualifier against Sierra Leone, a game which was subsequently cancelled.