Former Ghana Captain Stephen Appiah Assesses Black Stars' Chances in Group H at the World Cup

• Stephen Appiah believes the Black Stars of Ghana are in a difficult group at the World Cup in Qatar
• The former Black Stars captain is confident the team can make it out of Group H despite the pedigree of their opponents
• Ghana have been drawn in a group which has Portugal, South Korea and inaugural winners Uruguay

Former Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah believes Ghana have a good chance of making it out of Group H at the World Cup despite being tagged as underdogs.

The four-time African champions, who are making a return to the World Cup, have been drawn against Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay.

Appiah, who was Ghana's skipper at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups insists the Black Stars will provide stern competition to their opponents.

"It's going to be difficult, but we've seen it before. In 2006, when we went to the World Cup in Germany, we were underdogs. We played against Italy, our first game, we lost 2-0. We played Czech, who were number 2 at that time and we beat them 2-0. We also played USA, who were number 5 and we beat them 2-1," he told Al Jazeera as quoted by GHANASoccernet.

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"I think we are capable of doing that. We have to take it match after match, we are playing Portugal and we are not even thinking about Uruguay yet. Our guys our goo," he added.

The Black Stars will begin their tournament with a clash against Portugal on November 24 before facing South Korea four days later. Ghana will complete their group with a game against Uruguay.

Gyan calls for support for Ghana

Earlier, Sports Brief reported that legendary Black Stars forward Asamoah Gyan has urged Ghanaians to keep their reservations about the 26-man squad named for the World Cup and support the team.

Coach Otto Addo named his team for the tournament on Monday, leaving fans of the national team in shock following the absence of top performing players Joseph Painstil and Majeed Ashimeru.

Gyan himself took to social media to express surprise by the absence of the duo and Felix Afena-Gyan.