The Ghana boss speaks on their home stalemate with the Pharaohs on Sunday.
Ghana coach James Kwesi Appiah has expressed satisfaction with the outcome of Sunday's encounter with Egypt, despite his side's inability to beat the Pharaohs in the 2018 World Cup qualifying in Cape Coast.
Norway-based Edwin Gyasi scored on 63 minutes to draw the Black Stars level as the two teams settled for a 1-1 draw in their final match of the series.
Mahmoud Abdel Razek 'Shikabala' struck first on the hour mark to give the North Africans the lead.
"I'm happy with the result especially because we had a challenge of finding the right balance between three or four experienced players and several new faces," Appiah told beIN Sports.
"We were confident that we would get a positive result as the match is played at home, but at the same time, we were aware that the game would not be easy.
"I was confident that we would score the equalizer.
"The fans were a source of some stress but we finally managed to score."
In unarguably their worst World Cup qualifying campaign in as many years, Ghana ended the series on the third spot in Group E, two and six points behind second-placed Uganda and winners Egypt.
The Black Stars, set to miss out on the global showpiece for the first time since 2006, won only one of six group games, disappointingly failing to pick three points at home in all three attempts.
Source: Goal
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pls the writer should check his facts, we didnot finish six points behind uganda.
The people who employe the coach again should be sack ftom their post.what has he achieved before to be appointed as a Ghana coach
Sule Muntari has to forgiven and calls back. Ghana does not have a good team
This guy is simply a joke.
Let's face facts when did we see the Black Stars conserving the ball at the opposite side for even 45 seconds.Let this coach watch the replay and tell us .Ask this coach what was the scheme of play to score goals rather than individual efforts which led to missing lot of chances . The team lack taticks and irresponsibilities to conserve the ball . Their worst failure is allignment in the midfield and defence . Moreover there was no effective central defence to allow the keeper to see the ball and its route. Just see the equalizer; this shows that, had it been an effective machinery and good allignment at the mid field and the attack , more goals should have come from the Black Stars .Your satisfaction lies on the fact that you were able to draw with a qualified team to the world cup.