Ghana's Black Stars coach, Otto Addo, has lauded midfielder Abdul Salis Samed for his outstanding display in the friendly match against Nigeria on Friday.
Despite a 2-1 loss to their arch-rivals in Morocco, Samed, who plays for RC Lens, stood out as one of Ghana's brightest performers.
With the Black Stars playing most of the game with ten men following Jerome Opoku's early second-half dismissal, Addo was particularly impressed with Samed's contribution.
"Absolutely, the way Abdul Salis was running and how he controlled the game was really, really impressive. But all the others did well too. To hold them with ten-men in their half and pin them was a massive thing. We had good possessions; we helped and supported each other in the right timing, especially Abdul Salis," he said after the game.
"When they pressed us, he went into the right spots to get out of the pressure and from there also we created danger with Jordan, with Semenyo.
"The wing backs also in the second half were good, with Tariq (Lamptey) and Ebenezer (Annan) and it was really, really good. Ernest Nuamah you can’t take the ball from him, he was difficult to catch, at the end we could have created a little more if we were lucky and Antoine Semenyo scored the equalizer with the chance he had with the header, then maybe we get a point but in the end we lost."
Ghana's next challenge is against Uganda on Tuesday as they continue their preparations for the World Cup qualifiers in June.
