{"id":26589,"date":"2014-06-22T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=26589"},"modified":"2014-06-22T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:15:47","slug":"appiah-regrets-ghanas-missed-chances-against-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=26589","title":{"rendered":"Appiah regrets Ghana\u2019s missed chances against Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could easily have been Ghana celebrating a win rather than a draw against Germany, Kwesi Appiah feels.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars had to settle for a point, rather than three, against the European giants\u00a0if they been more clinical in their second group game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really good competitive game, we all know Germany is the second best in the whole world and playing them was always going to be difficult,\u201d Appiah said at the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana had lost their first game to the USA and needed not to lose on Saturday night. But a slow first half and an inspired second left fans feeling that it could have been a Stars victory being talked about.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Andre Ayew and Asamoah Gyan were followed by at least two gilt-edged chances that should have been converted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had some chances to extend our lead but playing a big team like Germany, if you don\u2019t take your chances, things become very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will now hope Portugal beats the USA on Sunday for any real chance of going through Group G alive. Otherwise, the Black Stars will take a plane home.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/worldcup\/?p=1472\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>SEE ALSO<\/em>: PLAYER RATINGS OF GHANA 2-2 GERMANY<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Gary Al-Smith\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could easily have been Ghana celebrating a win rather than a draw against Germany, Kwesi Appiah feels. The Black Stars had to settle for a point, rather than three, against the European giants\u00a0if they been more clinical in their second group game. \u201cIt was a really good competitive game, we all know Germany is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26533,"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":[1134,29,43,3,114,157],"class_list":["post-26589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alassane-ouattara","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-uber","tag-upper-east-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26589","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=26589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}