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A Dede Ayew header on the half-hour mark was enough to see Ghana through to an African Nations Cup quarter-final against tournament host Angola, on the same dreadful Luanda pitch that ruined this Group B match against Burkina Faso as a spectacle.

An unmarked Ayew, son of Ghanaian football legend Abedi Pele, headed home right-back Samuel Inkoom’s right-wing cross.

And the Burkinabe’s chances were reduced by Hamadou Tall’s 66^th minute dismissal for pushing an elbow in the face of Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan.

Group winners Cote D’Ivoire’s quarter-final opponents will be Algeria.