{"id":294212,"date":"2017-02-14T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294212"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:08:08","slug":"dwarfs-records-open-day-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294212","title":{"rendered":"Dwarfs records open day win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coast Ebusua Dwarfs began their\u00a0 2017 Ghana Premier League campaign on a brighter note when they defeated new entrants Bolga Stars at the New Cape Coast Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dwarfs who struggled in the later stage to remain in the 2015\/2016 season needed to put up such a splendid performance to bring some smiles to their loyal supporters who cheered them up till the end of proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>A two man move between Christian Ntsin and Joseph Esso enabled the latter to break the deadlock in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> minutes after several missed opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The new entrants matched Dwarfs boot for boot afterwards and ensured that the scores stayed 1-0 until the game went into recess.<\/p>\n<p>Bolga Stars came into the second half strongly and leveled up in the 57<sup>th<\/sup> minute when their striker, Issahaku Wahid capitalised on a defensive blunder to equalise.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after their equaliser, Dwarfs was awarded a penalty when in the 60<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Mohammed Osmanu was pushed in the 18 yard box.<\/p>\n<p>He elected himself for the kick, but missed it.<\/p>\n<p>Two late classic goals by substitute Albert Hammond in the 75<sup>th<\/sup> and 80<sup>th<\/sup> minutes sealed victory for Dwarfs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coast Ebusua Dwarfs began their\u00a0 2017 Ghana Premier League campaign on a brighter note when they defeated new entrants Bolga Stars at the New Cape Coast Stadium on Sunday. Dwarfs who struggled in the later stage to remain in the 2015\/2016 season needed to put up such a splendid performance to bring some smiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":20006,"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":[142],"tags":[4044,461],"class_list":["post-294212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ebusua-dwarfs","tag-ghana-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294212","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=294212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}