Soccer News of Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Source: XYZ

Local Black Stars make four changes for Ethiopia clash

Maxwell Konadu's Ghana side for Tuesday's clash against Ethiopia at the African Nations Championship shows four changes from the previous starting lineup.

Mohammed Sulley, Theophilus Anobaah and Godfred Saka are forced out with injuries while Yahaya Mohammed is however suspended for this fixture.

They have been replaced by Paul De-Vries Asare, Latif Mohammed, Francis Morten and Seidu Bancey as Konadu shuffles his team for the final Group C game in Bloemfontein at 17:00 GMT.

Asare and Latif earn their first starts after coming off the bench in previous games while Morten and Bancey get to make their tournament debut.

Morten has been drafted in to take the place of Saka, who picked up an injury during training on Monday.

Ghana, who are pushing a place in the quarter-finals of the tournament exclusive to players based in their home countries.

Ghana Line up:

Stephen Adams, Francis Morten, Tijani Joshua, Nuru Sulley, Kwabena Adusei, Michael Akuffu, Richard Mpong, Jordan Opoku, Seidu Bancey, Paul De-Vries Asare, Latif Mohammed