Brave eagles crashes out of CHAN on penalties.

Ghana beat Nigeria 4-1 on penalties. The sides
ended goalless after extra-time in the African
Nations Championship semi-final at the Free
State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Wednesday
night. The Final will be between Ghana and Libya, while
Nigeria will face Zimbabwe for the bronze medal on
Saturday. The Black Stars played with 10-men after they had
Kwabina Adusei sent off in the 64th minute for a
second bookable offence. Neither side were able to dominate in the opening
minutes although Nigeria looked the better of the
two teams as Ghana stuck to their style of sitting
back to defend, while launching attacks from the
flanks. Attobrah came close for Ghana in the 10th minute,
but saw his shot deflected for a corner by the
Nigerian defence. Abubakar Ibrahim however
responded for the Super Eagles two minutes later,
he could only managed to strike the side netting Abubakar Ibrahim of Nigeria during the 2014
CAF African Nations Championships football
match between Ghana and Nigeria at Free State
Stadium in Free State, on the 29 January 2014 The Ghanaians resorted to brute tackling to curtail
the Nigerian attack with both Ejike Uzoenyi and
Kunle Odunlami falling victims to heavy challenges
inside the opening twenty minutes. Abubakar was unlucky not to open scoring for
Nigeria in the 27th minute, as his long range shot
came off the crossbar, with Adams already well
beaten. Abubakar's missed effort sparked Nigeria into action
as they ceaselessly attacked the Ghanaians who
did well to keep them at bay. Uzoenyi came close to
scoring for Nigeria in the 37th minute, but his shot
went wide as the game remained goalless going into
the break. The first real chance of the second half fell to
Ifeanyi Ede in the 52nd minute as he found his way
between two Ghanaian defenders, but the Enyimba
frontman could not keep his resulting shot on target. The game remained a fierce tactical battle between
the two sides, with neither of them refusing to break
rank until Nigeria were handed a numerical
advantage when Ghana's centre-back was
deservedly sent off in the 63rd minute for yet
another high boot challenge on Abubakar, barely a minute after Imenger came on in place of Ede.