World Cup: Ghana-Serbia

Despite missing their top player, Michael Essien, Ghana still looks impressive. They were the more dangerous side, although Serbia played solid defense.

Thus far, the world cup has been characterized by a lack of offense. No one is finishing. I think the announcers said not a single striker has a scored a goal yet in the Cup. This is through 7-8 games so far - pretty remarkable. I wonder if it is just first round jitters or the weather or stronger defense or lots of strategy planning for the first game by the teams/coaches.

This victory puts Ghana is a good position to move to the second round in a really tough group. Presumably Germany will move forward as well, but I think they are missing their best player, Michael Ballack, as well.