00:00another day another game and another pair of nations start their world cup adventures
00:06an overcast toronto evening welcomes ghana and panama to the world's greatest to become the
00:11black stars outright leading appearance maker with cap number 121 and key men
00:17annibal godoy and albato karaskia are fit enough for a place on the bench
00:25away we go by the end of the day we will have seen everybody take to the stage at these
00:31fifa world
00:31cup finals around the squad two as they go in search of an early opener and it's thwarted by
00:39a fabulous save did they ever this was a brilliant ball into the box lots of pace not the easiest
00:46to
00:46get in front of the defender does so and what a athletic save that is
00:58blackman to take the throw here happy to have the ball back again and his legs are swept away from
01:04underneath him well done to the assistant looking right along the line
01:13he surprised the ghana squad by visiting them at their hotel yesterday and they've all ended up in a
01:20good old party with plenty of smiles
01:27to mexico and is deflected and could quite easily have gone anywhere idion menser delighted to just
01:40yorenci
01:44trying to slide it through for a gap which suddenly closed up and then your entry will go in the
01:50book for
01:50that on bassiness early yellow
01:55and well deserved yellow
01:59great work for saying that's getting in front of
02:05the player just creating a little bit of a situation where he hasn't got anything else but do is grab
02:12him
02:14the battle in the mind isn't it how much do you push forward knowing that you want to keep things
02:20sensible at the back as jordan ayu is down holding his head
02:25the referee thought about it it was definitely a grab
02:36well a touch of hollywood in the stands with american actor anthony mackie of
02:40captain america fame enjoying this group l clash a lot of big men in there
02:51floated in neatly but quite easily seen away martinez as ever just sticking the head in where many
02:57wouldn't youth and enthusiastic youngsters martinez trying to get on the end here and down he goes
03:07a lot of appeals from the stands but in truth not too many from the field blackman with options
03:14arriving in the middle helped out by andrade who stuck that just a little too close to a goalkeeper
03:21who was clattered it was pretty good goalkeeping because you know there's going to be some contact
03:26here there's certainly one little bit of a poku is don defender coming in there as well and here is
03:32this opportunity where there was an appeal from martinez is there enough there for that opening goal
03:40barcenas warned by a few thousand to hurry up a little across from martinez atizigi out again once again
03:49parted again and up on his feet just to see the strike which was a little wild great work
03:57they have some good width panama when they've delivered balls in from both sides of the park
04:02that's a good ball goalkeepers as well
04:18there has been i mean panama other than scoring have done a pretty good job controlling this match and
04:23like they said the width is very good they just basically put men on the
04:28touch lines on their side and no team has got a whole half without an attempt at this world cup
04:35final so far maybe this is their moments
04:39nwama
04:43it wasn't worth the wait was it nwama and rodriguez right there with it pestering him all the way
04:52now the battle resumes going in the other direction senea helping out
05:00here's semenyo cordoba right at his back
05:05manchester city against norwich city there from the english game
05:10as semenyo is taken out not very happy with the challenge
05:15giving him areas of the pitch where he can actually penalty area it's a decent delivery
05:23and it's seen away just about
05:26a rusu keeps it alive and can do nothing with it
05:39and that is half time
05:43selio waterman going closest but lawrence atizigi sprawling to say
05:48to deny him i wonder what we'll see in the second half from these two
05:52at the break it's gone a nil panama nil
05:58well the big names have really come out to play in the last 24 hours or so at the
06:01fifa world cup finals we've seen doubles for kilian mbappe
06:06erling harland and harry kane and a first hat-trick at the world cup finals for lionel messi
06:12sulemana
06:14helping it on its way in the middle it's well attacked but it's straight out orlando mosquera
06:23gana take on england next in boston
06:29and here they go looking for something an optimistic hit from jaren chi
06:39rodriguez
06:40fizzes that one across
06:43and adjeti made sure that it
06:49rodriguez
06:50up against adjeti
06:53still there for rodriguez or maybe for waterman
06:56that's the head of adjeti
06:58oh it's martinez here
07:03well from his point of view the wrong side of the nets
07:07but just for a moment
07:10quite a few thought that was the opener
07:15ramos races forward might fancy it here he does
07:22well well well
07:26this simenio bit of room
07:29and mosquera plunges upon the ball
07:32the avenges
07:34roll on
07:35towards senea
07:36lots of coming together which does lead to a gana free kick and a yellow card
07:44for cesar blackman
07:49yeah blackman gets beat here and you can see that he's
07:52really trying hard to keep up the pace but
07:55can't do so and way too much contact pulling grabbing officials all over that
08:01here is simenio
08:03brandon thomas asante charging through
08:06is this the moment for gana
08:09well the flag will go up belatedly he did look to have gone a little soon
08:20and then she simenio
08:23poking it forward for brandon thomas asante
08:26who skips away from cordova
08:29gana could be in business
08:50and he's got to pick a spot he's got to pick somebody out
08:57and he certainly does
08:59and he certainly does brilliant
09:02here and she
09:04just about put it over from close range
09:07and the gana beds goes absolutely crazy
09:10carlos cuero gets it bang on in the second half his substitutes have been
09:26well that is a foul in panama's favor
09:30it's now or never for panama
09:32in for panacellas muscaras there and diaz as well
09:40and tempest flare as contact is made with the goalkeeper
09:45it was there for them there
09:49and it's a chance that just
09:52disappears from their grasp as a few start to lose their heads
10:05in the air towards carlos harvey i think
10:08what a moment what a moment it was it nearly was a goalkeeper gets a touch on it heads it
10:13down to diaz
10:14tough to get a lot of power on it for the header
10:18here's another look at it the header from mosquera
10:21hit to diaz
10:24there's not a lot there they're going to complain about that but there wasn't an awful lot there
10:27a little kick out of course the goalkeeper's not going to care he's got that ball
10:35and they thrust it into the area mensa will see that out
10:40and that is that
10:44late late wins are often the very best of wins
10:51carlos carlos has seen so much in the game
10:55but even nights like this with goals so late like that are so so special to someone so experienced
11:06and someone only relatively recently through the door in charge of ghana
11:10a game that gave us plenty in the end is won by one late goal
11:18who was a fan of the challenge for the , the
11:18speaker was a no-one
11:18but the first two of the time is about to catch up
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