Ghana’s players will report to camp in Accra for the World Cup qualifier against Mali in good health after some fine individual performances at club level.
The Black Stars take on Mali with no world cup or Nations Cup place available after all the slots were determined in Group D in the last round of matches but Milovan Rajevac needs to halt a slide of two games and two losses.
And he would have derived a lot of confidence from the performance of some of his key players in their final match for club before the Kumasi meeting against the Malians.
Michael Essien provided further evidence of why he is the preferred holding midfielder for the big games at Chelsea with another solid performance as Chelsea outmuscled Manchester United 1-0 to go five points clear in the premiership race.
Elsewhere in England, John Paintsil played at right back as Fulham gained a point away at Wigan Athletic for whom Richard Kingston was once again a spectator.
In Holland, Matthew Amoah ended his long goal draught with one of the goals as NAC Breda routed Willem II 4-0. His likely strike partner for the visit of Mali, Asamoah Gyan ended up on the losing side but after he had scored his sixth league goal of the season to draw Stade Rennes level against Toulouse.
In Italy, Kwadwo Asamoah who is due to return for the Black Stars after a four month absence played for 90 minutes for Udinese but ended up on the losing side against Fiorintina.
Sulley Muntari had a good forty five minutes for Inter Milan against AS Roma as Jose Mourinho brought on Wesley Sneider as Inter chased the game after half time. It ended 1-1.
