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The miners’ African campaign came to an early end with a home defeat in Ouagadougou on Saturday.
Ashanti Gold of Ghana is out of the 2020-21 Caf Confederation Cup following a 2-1 away loss to Salitas of Burkina Faso in the preliminary round of the competition.
David Abagna was right for the Miners in the second leg at the Stade du 4 Aout in Ouagadougou, but two previous goals by Olivier Boissy for the hosts were enough to knock Milovan Cirkovic’s team out of the championship.
The Obuasi-based team is eliminated 2-1 on aggregate, the first leg ended in a 0-0 draw.
Salitas will face Al Amal Atbara of Sudan in the next round.
Ashold’s coach Cirkovic chose Bailo Mohammed over veteran goalkeeper Robert Dabuo in his starting eleven.
Fit striker Hans Kwofie, who has scored three goals in two matches in the Ghana Premier League (GPL) so far, joined players like Yaw Annor and Mark Agyekum in the attack.
Kwofie was close to goal early in the game, but it was Salitas who finally broke the deadlock in the 22nd minute through Boissy.
In the 33rd minute, Agyekum had a good chance to seek an equalizer for his team, but squandered the opportunity from close range.
Boissy then made it 2-0 for the hosts in the 45th minute, but the goal was far from the last major action of the half, as Abagna scored for AshGold two minutes after injury time to halve the deficit. .
Five minutes after the break, AshGold, for a moment, thought he had found a valuable draw when Agyekum shoved the ball into the back of the net, but Nigerian referee Abubakar Abdullahi disallowed the goal for offside.
Abagna tried another effort to lure his team back into the game, but his goal was coldly handled by Salitas goalkeeper Sanon Babin.
In the end, it was not for the Miners, as they failed to register a necessary draw that would have been enough to secure qualification for the next round of the championship with the away goals rule.
It is a step backwards for the team that reached the first round of the competition last season, where they were eliminated by RS Berkane of Morocco.
