The First Capital Plus Premier League returned this weekend after a week break, and a produced a total of 16 goals.<\/p>\n
In Obuasi, defending league champions Asante Kotoko<\/strong> could only pick up a point against New Edubiase<\/strong> despite holding a 2-1 lead at the 80th minute. Aminu Dramani scored with virtually the last kick of the game to deny David Duncan his third win as head coach of the Porcupine Warriors.<\/p>\n Asante Kotoko lie 9th on 19 points while Edubiase are 14th with 17 points.<\/p>\n Far away in WA, league leaders AshantiGold<\/strong> saw their six points lead at the top of the league table cut to 3 after a surprise 1-0 loss to All Stars<\/strong>. Kweku Baffour scored for All Stars with the goal.<\/p>\n The Miners stay top of the log with 28 points and All Stars have 20 points are 6th.<\/p>\n In Kpando, Hearts of Lions<\/strong> could only huff and puff but Liberty<\/strong> stood their ground and picked up a point after a goalless game.<\/p>\n Lions have 20 points and are 7th on the table and Liberty are 11th on 19 points.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in Dorma Ahenkro, Black Stars goalkeeper Stephen Adams was in inspiring form to help Aduana Stars<\/strong> nick a priceless 1-0 victory over Bechem United<\/strong> courtesy a Richard Addai goal.<\/p>\n Aduana Stars are second with 25 points and are 9 points ahead of Bechem who are 15th on 16 points.<\/p>\n Whiles Aduana Stars were wining relegation, threatened BA United<\/strong> give themselves a chances of survival with an impressive 2-1 win over regional rivals Berekum Chelsea.<\/strong><\/p>\n B.A United are bottom with 13 points and Chelsea are 8th on 19 points.<\/p>\n In the Western regional derby, Hasaacas<\/strong> and Medeama<\/strong> played out a four-goal thriller with both sides getting two goals each. Nathaniel Asamoah and Hans Kofie each scored for Medeama whiles Emmanule Akobia also scored twice for Hasaacas.<\/p>\n Medeama are 4th on 20 points and Hasaacas are 12th on 18 points.<\/p>\n At the Tema Stadium high flying Inter Allies<\/strong> were brought back to Earth by a very spirited performance from West Africa Football Academy (WAFA)<\/strong> who had Martin Atwi scoring the only goal.<\/p>\n Inter Allies have 20 points and they lie on 5th spot while WAFA are 3rd with 24 points.<\/p>\n But the game of the weekend came on at the Accra Sports Stadium where Hearts of Oak<\/strong> and Great Olympics<\/strong> renewed their intense capital rivalry.<\/p>\n But after 90 minutes of compelling action neither side was able to grab the headlines with the game ending 0-0.<\/p>\n Hearts are 10th on 19 points and Olympics are 13th on 17 points.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The First Capital Plus Premier League returned this weekend after a week break, and a produced a total of 16 goals. In Obuasi, defending league champions Asante Kotoko could only pick up a point against New Edubiase despite holding a 2-1 lead at the 80th minute. Aminu Dramani scored with virtually the last kick of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":111643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-111642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}