After six months of gruel and duels on the University
of Ghana Campus, over 250 goals scored this season, sixteen teams starting in
two groups, the boys have finally been separated from the men with just two
teams left to play in the final game of Inter-hall Soccer League to decide who
emerges as kings of soccer here on the University of Ghana Campus.
The Vandals Commonwealth Hall will do battle with their
nemesis Mensah Sarbah hall to determine who wins the third edition of the
University of Ghana Soccer league. Both sides topping their groups and
defeating their respective semi-final opponents to set what will surely be a
trilling and a frantic encounter in the final.
Commonwealth Hall, very much the favorites in the books
of many to annex their first silverware of any kind in the history of
University of Ghana Soccer and rightly so deserve to be after picking up
twelve victories and drawing three games en-route to the final. Even more
impressive is the fact that they have considered a mere 5 goals and have scored
31 times this season, bringing their goal per game ratio to 2.06.
In Alhassan
Abubakar and Edmond Atadana they have forged an impenetrable defensive
partnership similar to title winning defensive pairings like that of Cannavaro
and Nesta in Italy’s 2006 world cup winning team. But it’s their midfield play that
makes the teams that come against them look way below their class. The fluid
passing play of Saad Acheampong and Asuku Ibrahim always leaves opposing teams
chasing shadows. Rakamandra Mensah also sits just infront of the defence
allowing his attacking colleague to bump forward and join their never ending
forays into the defense of opposing teams. Kevin Tagoe upfront for them may not
be as prolific as Frederick Amankona was last season but he surely makes up for
what he lacks in his poaching abilities with his impressive link up play with
his wingers and midfield.
The Vikings on the other hand may not have their team
studded with school team players and great passers of the ball like the Vandals
do but their determination and their fighting spirit is what has brought them
this far. A look at the semi final game against Akuafo Hall clearly depicts
what their team is made off-: hunger and passion to defy the odds.
Their unpredictability is another weapon they have in
Arsenals. Coach William Ayitey has varied tactics all season to the good of the
team. His ability to always come up with a plan B when the going gets tough
comes in handy for the Okpo-mates and he just might have to map up a perfect
plan one more time to outwit Andy Asante the tactical brain of the Vandals.
But one thing they will surely need to guard against
their momentarily lapse in concentration that has bedeviled them at certain
points in the season.
In all, a well and truly epic encounter awaits us and
we just pray the fans of both sides allow us to witness that classy game.
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