Ghana have qualified for their fifth tournament in six attempts, and they managed to do so without too much issue. They topped Group I in qualifying by winning eight of their ten games, and finished a full six points ahead of second placed Madagascar. Few would have expected such a turnaround considering they failed to even qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year, where they failed to win a single game on their way to bottom place of Group F, and it was the first time since 2004 that the four time champions failed to make it. They have been dumped out of the group stages in their last two World Cup campaigns as well as the previous two African Cup of Nations that they qualified for, and form is certainly not on their side.