Ghana has a lot of memorable matches in the month of October as earlier indicated in the preview and this match will also have much significance in the annals of Ghana football.
The 6-1 victory for Ghana on Tuesday is the highest win in Ghana-Egypt encounters in international football, breaking the 48 years, 362 days record, in a game ironically played in another month of October. The result is revenge to the 5-1 thrashing in Japan on 18th October, 1964.
Ghana handed Egypt their heaviest defeat by an African country in their football history.
The Tuesday defeat by Egypt is their first in the 2014 world cup qualifiers, hence halting their six consecutive winning streaks in the qualifiers.
The 6-1 score line has also equaled the highest goals conceded by Egypt in a competitive International football. Egypt has never conceded more than six in a competitive game.
Ghana is still the highest scoring nation on the African continent in the world Cup qualifiers with 24 goals, conceding 4 which is the second fewest goals conceded.
Egypt is still the nation with most goals conceded among the 10 nations in the play-off.
Asamoah Gyan is a goal shy of equaling Ghana’s all time top scoring record after his brace in the Black Stars 6-1 defeat of the Pharaohs. This record is held by the late Edward Acquah and Kwasi Owusu, with 40 goals each
The 6-1 victory for Ghana has enabled Bob Bradley, the head coach of Egypt to fail in his three previous attempts against Ghana as coach.
2013 in UAE-Friendly Ghana 3-0 Egypt
2010 World Cup in South Africa-Round of 16 Ghana 2-1 USA
No nation has ever overturned a 5 goal margin in the history of the world cup qualifiers, so Ghana will comfortably enter into the second leg against this backdrop.
The magic of the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Kumasi
This stadium qualified Ghana for their maiden world cup in Germany. It hosted the Black Stars in all their 6 home matches winning 5 and drawing 1
Ghana 7-0 thrashing of Lesotho in the opening game of the qualifiers at the Baba Yara Stadium is Ghana’s highest win in the history of the World Cup qualifiers.
At club level Asante Kotoko in 1987 after losing 2-0 to Zamalek in Cairo and conceding a goal under six minutes at home in this stadium did one of the greatest comeback in the CAF Champions league history by thrashing Zamalek 5-1, hence earning the Super miracle of Kumasi.
In this game Zamalek substituted their goalkeeper and the same thing happened in Ghana’s 6-1 thrashing of the Pharoahs of Egypt on Tuesday.
The Baba Yara Sports Stadium has hosted all the 4 World Cup qualifiers for Brazil 2014, with Ghana winning all the matches and scoring 18 goals at home, which is the highest in the African qualifiers for the World Cup.
Head to head total between Ghana and Egypt.
After the 6-1 victory for Ghana
Total= 23
Ghana= 7
Egypt=10
Draws=6
Competitive games
Total=8
Ghana= 3
Egypt=4
Draws=1
These are the memorable October matches
15/10/1962 Malawi 0-12 Ghana Friendly
Ghana’s highest victory in international matches
18/10/1964 Egypt 5-1 Ghana Venue: Japan Olympic Games (CM)
Ghana’s highest defeat in a competitive international game
08/10/2005 Cape Verde Islands 4-0 Ghana Ancq/Wcq
The day Ghana qualified for the World Cup for the very first time.
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