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Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah has expressed his excitement over their performance against Asante Kotoko.

The Black Stars inflicted a 3-0 defeat on Asante Kotoko in a friendly encounter at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on Friday.

Speaking to the media after the game, coach Appiah was impressed with the display of his team and said it’s a good preparation for next month AFCON qualifier against Ethiopia.

“It was a good exercise for me, the essence of this game was to test some of the players that I invited. Some of them it's been a while since I invited them.” Kwesi Appiah said.

“Some of them I wasn’t too sure about. I needed this game to have a look at them before our next game next month”

“This game has open my eyes to change my decision on a lot of them” He said.

“I’m very impressed with the performance of the team, they played so well I wasn’t expecting them to play at that level. Some of them I even don’t know them. But I was very impressed.” he added.

“All the exercise I have been doing the whole year is to look at players who are playing at the highest level and I think most of the players are really good it’s important they keep playing at same level” he said.

Ghana’s AFCON qualifiers against Sierra Leone was cancelled after FIFA suspended the Sierra Leone FA for government interference.