{"id":21857,"date":"2014-06-01T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=21857"},"modified":"2014-06-01T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:57:11","slug":"we-should-have-scored-ghana-more-louis-van-gaal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=21857","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We should have scored Ghana more&#8221; &#8211; Louis van Gaal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis van Gaal believes his Netherlands team were too lenient with Ghana despite winning 1-0 in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-World Cup friendly on Saturday night was the second time the Dutch had beaten the Black Stars under these circumstances, having won 4-1 just before South Africa 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are too careless with the ball at times,\u201d the Manchester United-bound coach told Dutch media on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Robin van\u00a0Persie\u00a0scored the only goal of the match in the fifth minute at De Kuip Arena in\u00a0Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first half, there were many opportunities for us to create opportunities, but we have not taken advantage of them.\u00a0We have created and scored a brilliant goal, but it should have been 3-0. We had another two fantastic attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana have left for the USA to continue preps while the Netherlands meet Wales in\u00a0Amsterdam\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>by: Gary Al-Smith\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyalsmith\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @garyalsmith<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis van Gaal believes his Netherlands team were too lenient with Ghana despite winning 1-0 in Rotterdam. The pre-World Cup friendly on Saturday night was the second time the Dutch had beaten the Black Stars under these circumstances, having won 4-1 just before South Africa 2010. \u201cWe are too careless with the ball at times,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19533,"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":[2,1166],"tags":[118,115,1168,29,3,1169,1121,1167],"class_list":["post-21857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-transport","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-armyworms","tag-customer-satisfaction","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-global-media-alliance","tag-kotoko","tag-smart-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857","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=21857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}