Even though Ghana were celebrating reaching the knockout stage for the fifth time in their fifth appearance at the competition after their biggest win in the Fifa tournament, Ayew chose to focus on what he said was becoming a worrying trend where they start slow but finish hard.
“We played some great football today but we started slowly and in the opening fifteen minutes we were lucky not to go behind,” he told KickOffGhana.com. “It was the same thing in our opening game so it is clearly becoming an issue. We cannot afford to be starting in the way we do because other teams at some point will punish us.”
Dede was at his best on Tuesday evening tormenting the English down the right side of the Ghana attack in concert with Samuel Inkoom before scoring a stunning goal in the second half that his legendary father Abedi Ayew would have been proud of.
