{"id":351155,"date":"2017-09-06T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=351155"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:04:55","slug":"gyan-commends-black-stars-for-massive-congo-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=351155","title":{"rendered":"Gyan commends Black Stars for massive Congo win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, was full of admiration for his team mates as they romped to a 5-1 win over Congo Brazzaville on Tuesday in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan could not play due to a groin injury but he travelled with the team to Brazzaville and watched as Thomas Partey and Richmond Boakye-Yiadom scored on the day to give Kwesi Appiah a second win of his second tenure in charge of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan said that the players ticked the right boxes and they were a huge improvement on the display in the 1-1 draw last Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/05\/ghana-smash-congo-5-1-in-brazzaville\/congogh\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74291\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/congogh.jpg\" alt=\"congogh\" width=\"650\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Agyepong (white jersey) taking on his marker during the match in Brazzaville<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis time, we were tactically disciplined and we were very composed. Everyone moved the right way and the display was unlike the first match in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>That day, we could not convert our chances and we made mistakes. People saw that we put our chances away in this second match and that was the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Everything worked well for us and we deserved the victory. The performance was one of the best I had seen in a long time and I am very happy with the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana now has 5 points with two matches left in the qualifying series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, was full of admiration for his team mates as they romped to a 5-1 win over Congo Brazzaville on Tuesday in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. Gyan could not play due to a groin injury but he travelled with the team to Brazzaville and watched as Thomas Partey and Richmond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[455,564],"class_list":["post-351155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-black-stars","tag-citi-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351155","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=351155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}