Ghana coach LeRoy wants a good pitch, not armchairs

By Brian Homewood

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana coach Claude Le Roy slammed the state of the pitch and suggested African Nations Cup organisers had got their priorities wrong after his side's 2-1 win over Guinea on Sunday.

"The first thing is not the quality of the armchair in the VIP room but it is the quality of the pitch and in more than 20 years in Africa, it's the worst pitch I've ever seen in my career," he said of the field at the Ohene Djan stadium.

"We have a technical team which likes to play one-touch football and this pitch badly affected our game."

Le Roy also blamed his team's poor finishing as well as a slice of bad luck after the hosts left it late in the Group A tie, Sulley Muntari scoring a spectacular winner in the final minute with a superb long-distance strike.

"We created so many opportunities to score, scoring seems to be very complicated for us," he said. "But it was a very good performance by the Black Stars.

"We were also unlucky in the first half when we hit the post three times.

"We know that the future will be very difficult because all the teams in this competition are very good teams."

Le Roy's opposite number and fellow Frenchman Robert Nouzerat slammed his team's performance.