The senior national team the Black Stars have lost their first joint nations and world cup qualifiers having lost one goal to nil to Benin. Before the match, analysts said the Stars were most probably going to put up a lackluster performance given the fact they have already qualified for the soccer fiesta to be staged for the first time on an African soil in South Africa. They did everything in the game not to avoid defeat and prove the skeptics wrong. The stars were a pale shadow of themselves, with sloppy play and losing the bragging right to an unbeaten run. Apart from Mathew Amoah’s 47th minute goal which was disallowed, the Squirrels played all the ball while the Stars just watched. As if the Squirrels were holding the goal and waiting to slap it on the Stars at a time the Stars could not respond, the only goal of the game came in the final minute of added time. This results qualifies the Squirrels to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.