King Faisal have reached the semi-final of the MTN FA Cup by beating Aduana 5-3 on penalties on Sunday in the Brong Ahafo Region.<\/p>\n
After finishing 1-1 in regulation time with goals from Aduana’s Godfred Saka and Faisal’s Alhassan Mohammed, the two sides settled for the shootout.<\/p>\n
Faisal scored all five, while the usually reliable Saka missed to hand the Kumasi side the initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n After the game, interim Faisal boss\u00a0<\/span>Prince \u2018Sabuto\u2019 Acheampong lauded his side for their tactical discipline.<\/p>\n \u201cI realized that the Aduana players were floating the balls and that made it very difficult for my team.\u00a0<\/span>So I had to bring in tall players who could compete with them for the air balls and that really helped us after they had taken the lead.<\/p>\n \u201cI was very happy to see the game go on penalties, because ever since I took over the team from the head coach, we have been practicing penalties after every training session,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n King Faisal’s penalties:\u00a0Tetteh Nortey, Suraj Ibrahim, Franklin Osei, Fatawu Mohammed and Joshua Akoto.<\/span><\/p>\n Aduana penalties: Emmanuel Akuoko, Seth Opare, Kofi Owusu, Godfred Saka (missed)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King Faisal have reached the semi-final of the MTN FA Cup by beating Aduana 5-3 on penalties on Sunday in the Brong Ahafo Region. After finishing 1-1 in regulation time with goals from Aduana’s Godfred Saka and Faisal’s Alhassan Mohammed, the two sides settled for the shootout. Faisal scored all five, while the usually reliable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15304,"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-15303","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\/15303","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}