I'm very happy with the way my team played tonight. It was a tough game and we played on our nerves. It's difficult to play the home team at this stage of the tournament ... We were playing against a coach, his players and their fans.

After the World Cup, the African Nations Cup in 2004, things definitely dipped.

It was a big relief to achieve our main objective of qualifying from this group.

The three points will serve us really well for the rest of the competition. The road is long but it's clearer.

The statistics do not reflect the quality of our play here as we continued to improve with each game. I?m satisfied with our performance at this tournament even though our target was to reach the final.

We came here to play a game worthy of a final. We came to win and we were prepared to win. We lost concentration briefly, but we regained the momentum.

Today our team did not play like our team should and Ghana were more motivated and that made the difference.

Today our team did not play like our team should ... This was not the team I know. We'll have to work out our problems and try and take all three points from Nigeria.

We dominated 80 minutes of the match and then a schoolboy goalkeeping error drained the confidence of the whole team.

We played at a high level but some individual errors costs us. I'm hoping for a lively Senegal in the quarter-final.