{"id":149194,"date":"2015-09-06T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149194"},"modified":"2015-09-06T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:57:14","slug":"rwanda-game-was-tough-mubarak-wakaso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=149194","title":{"rendered":"‘Rwanda game was tough’ – Mubarak Wakaso"},"content":{"rendered":"

The match winner in Ghana’s away AFCON qualifier against Rwanda, Mubarak Wakaso has told Citi Sports<\/strong>\u00a0the game against the Amavubis was “very difficult.”<\/p>\n

The two teams were almost heading for a 0-0 drawn game when Wakaso curled in a beauty, from a free kick in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”PV2qsNxvUYVhtyB23rqgQeF2tvz5NdAG”]The poor state\u00a0of the pitch at the Amahoro stadium also made it more difficult for the Black Stars to string their passes together and technically execute their game plan.<\/p>\n

After the match, Wakaso exclusively told Citi FM’s<\/strong> reporter in Kigali, Rahman Osman that, “It was a difficult game and we were also determined to win the game and actually we got the win. So I will use this opportunity to thank my colleagues and the almighty God because it was not easy. But we are still looking ahead to make it bigger and bigger.”<\/p>\n

Wakaso, who has been one of the most consistent players in the Black Stars set up, said “anytime I get the opportunity, I try to make good use of it. What I’m doing is part of me, I’m a hard worker and I always want to see my side win…”<\/p>\n

Ghana now has 6 points after Saturday’s victory.<\/p>\n

The Black Stars in their first game, thumped Mauritius 7-1 in Accra.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the coach of the Rwandan national team Johnny\u00a0McKinstry is still hopeful his team will make it to the next AFCON tournament in Gabon.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the game against Ghana, he said “… Playing against a team like Ghana, there wasn’t going to be a lot of chances, we had two or three chances, Ghana had two or three chances and it was a tactical game, it was a game of chess. But I thought we nullified them [Ghana].”<\/p>\n

He said his team’s plan to rake in at least 12 points from the qualifiers is still on course despite the defeat against Ghana.<\/p>\n

“… Our ambition to get 12 points in this group, 6 from Mauritius and 6 from Mozambique, if we play like we did in Mozambique and we play like we did today [against Ghana], in those next three games, I believe we will be on 12 points, and 12 points if it doesn’t win the group it should put us as one of the best runners’ up so I think we are in good value to be in Gabon next year.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Rahman Osman reporting from Kigali\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/div>\n
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The match winner in Ghana’s away AFCON qualifier against Rwanda, Mubarak Wakaso has told Citi Sports\u00a0the game against the Amavubis was “very difficult.” The two teams were almost heading for a 0-0 drawn game when Wakaso curled in a beauty, from a free kick in the 87th minute. [contextly_sidebar id=”PV2qsNxvUYVhtyB23rqgQeF2tvz5NdAG”]The poor state\u00a0of the pitch at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":149203,"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":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-149194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149194","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}