Ghana Black Princesses’ coach Charles Sampson has urged his players to learn from their mistakes after their opening defeat to Ecuador at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
The Black Princesses suffered a 3-0 defeat to the South Americans, with Rosa Flores putting in a strong performance.
Flores scored a spectacular long-range goal before setting up Domenica Arboldeda for Ecuador’s second goal.
Arboldeda scored her second goal with 20 minutes remaining to complete a convincing victory for Ecuador.
Sampson admitted Ghana were punished for poor defending, especially when Ecuador found spaces between the lines.
“At this level, it is very difficult if you defend a bit naively. I think we were on them in the beginning and then the two times they came into our box, they could play a penetrating pass in between [our lines] and they scored the two goals,” Sampson said.
The coach was also disappointed by the way Ghana conceded the goals, including Flores’ long-range strike.
“Those goals were difficult to take, especially the first one from a long distance. We just have to accept it, we have two more games and we have to work on ourselves now.”
