'I was generally best option' - Asamoah Gyan talks on Stephen Appiah punishment discussion
Asamoah Gyan's latest possible moment punishment miss against Uruguay at the World Cup in 2010 remaining a ton of terrible recollections for Ghanaians.
One of the most persevering through pictures from that game was a photograph of Stephen Appiah swaying his finger in an upset Gyan's face.
The picture has in this manner been deciphered in various ways, especially as Appiah censuring Gyan for not allowing him to take the critical punishment all things considered.
Gyan has at long last settled that hypothesis, in a meeting on the Breakfast Daily on Citi TV.
In front of the send off of his journals on April 30, Gyan reveals more insight into that difficult night for him and the remainder of Ghanaians.
The previous Black Stars captain made sense of that a course of action had been made, before the quarter-last against the Uruguayans, on who might take the punishments for the Black Stars, would it be advisable for it head to a shoot-out.
Gyan's name was first on the rundown, which implied he would take any punishment Ghana got during the game and the principal punishment in a shoot-out.
"Before each game, we have the punishment takers, and I was first on the rundown," Gyan told have, David Sakyi.
"Assuming that Stephen Appiah had taken the ball [after we won the punishment against Uruguay] he'd have given it to me. Indeed, even in the principal game [of the 2010 World Cup] against Serbia [in the 84th-minute, I was the person who took the punishment. We had a game plan."
This record makes sense of why, regardless of missing the last-minute punishment, Gyan moved forward again in the shoot-out and scored.
Ghana, in any case, missed several kicks in the shoot-out and passed up a spot in the World Cup semi-last, which would have made them the primary African country to do as such.
Gyan has recently described everything Appiah said to him at that point, demanding that he was not being scolded, but instead empowered by the previous Juventus player.
"At the time he was rousing me and that was after the punishment. I was exceptionally stressed going into the post-match punishment shoot-out, however he came and let me know that he knows what I can do. I was the best punishment taker and [the miss] was a mix-up," Gyan said.
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