Qatar Warm-Up Success For Amartey & Ghana

- Leicester City's Daniel Amartey featured for Ghana on Thursday morning
- The centre-back helped the Black Stars to a 2-0 win over Switzerland in Abu Dhabi
- Ghana will face Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay in Group H at the FIFA World Cup

The Leicester City centre-back, who has helped his club collect six clean sheets in their last eight Premier League outings, played from start to finish for the Black Stars at ZSC Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

Southampton's Mohammed Salisu opened the scoring for Ghana on 70 minutes before, shortly afterwards, substitute and Bristol City star Antoine Semenyo added a second.

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Daniel Amartey lines up for the national anthems before Ghana's clash with Switzerland. Credit: GFA Communications.

Amartey's caps tally now stands at 46 ahead of this winter's contest in Qatar. Ghana's World Cup campaign opens against Portugal next Thursday (4pm GMT kick-off).

South Korea and Uruguay also await in Group H. For news and updates on LCFC's players at the greatest show on earth over November and December, visit LCFC.com/WorldCup.

Images: GFA Communications.