Avram Grant claims that the team does not have enough strikers

Ghana national team coach Avram Grant claims that the team does not have enough strikers but there is a lot of options in the midfield.

The former Chelsea and West Ham manager has recently come under criticism for his failure to get a consistent set of results with the national team, which once seemed to be the strongest in African football. The presence of players like Michael Essien made Ghana a force to reckon with a decade ago. Now, the team does not have strength in depth in several areas of the pitch and it is most exposed in the attacking department.

Grant says that if the likes of Gyan and Warris are not available for the national team, then it seriously leaves them without any options to play up front. However, the team has no trouble in finding the required number of midfielders since there is large competition in this area of the pitch. Grant has been criticised for favouring overseas players more than the home-grown stars. It remains to be seen if the deficiency in attacking players forces the former Chelsea manager to look in the Ghanaian league for talent. Grant has little time to build a squad for the African cup of nations, which starts in 2017.

"The truth is that Ghana lacks strikers because there are many midfield players. When Warris and Gyan are not playing, we lack opportunities,” said the Ghanaian manager about his lack of options up front. Fans, though, will not be worried about the excuses put up by the manager. Instead, they will just focus on the results and it has not been good enough so far. The recent win over Mauritius, though, has helped Grant by some time before the start of the African Cup of Nations 2017 – one of the prestigious tournaments for African nations.