Aduana Stars confirmed their capture of the 2017 Ghana Premier League on Match Day 29 after they beat Elmina Sharks 2-1 in Dormaa.<\/p>\n
They had to come back from a goal down to win the match and grab the second title in the club’s history.<\/p>\n
But beneath the success lies some very interesting statistics that helped them achieve the feat with one game to spare in the league.<\/p>\n
15-<\/strong>\u00a0The number of unbeaten matches Aduana were able to put together at home during the season and they topped the charts for the best home record in the league.<\/p>\n They gave a proper meaning to the idea of home grounds being a fortress. The kept all their guests away from three points whenever they were at the Nana Agyemang Badu Park in Dormaa.<\/p>\n On the odd day when Aduana Stars could not find the net, they managed to shut their doors and windows to their opponents.<\/p>\n That happened only three times at home and it was against Medeama in March, Wa All Stars in April, and Asante Kotoko in June.<\/p>\n 10-<\/strong>\u00a0The number of unbeaten games Aduana Stars got on their travels.<\/p>\n The Ghana Premier League is very ruthless to teams on the road. It is almost certain that anytime you leave your home ground, you will return with very little.<\/p>\n But Aduana Stars got 18 points from their away matches (four wins, 6 draws and 4 losses). Their resilience was on display when they got a 3-3 draw in Accra against Hearts of Oak.<\/p>\n For many pundits, that was the greatest indicator of their intention to win the league title and they duly delivered.<\/p>\n 43-<\/strong>\u00a0The number of goals Aduana Stars scored throughout the season. Goals win matches and winning a good number of them will give you a title and Yusif Abubakar, coach of Aduana, helped the team grab goals.<\/p>\n Their top scorer, Nathaniel Asamoah, got only 7 goals out of the 43 but that shows how rounded they were. Derrick Sasraku, Noah Martey, and the rest of the team contributed adequately to support the title run.<\/p>\n 21-<\/strong>\u00a0The number of goals Aduana Stars let in across the season. Goals win you matches but defences will get you championships, they say.<\/p>\n Aduana must have have studied that maxim because they did not give a lot away.<\/p>\n Only 21 goals went into their net and that was the second-best defensive record in the league. Only WAFA did better with 18 and they will finish second (by virtue of a better head-to-head record against Hearts of Oak even if Hearts win their final match and finish tied with WAFA on 50 points).<\/p>\n It certainly was a great season for Aduana Stars and they can look forward to getting their crown against AshGold on the final day of the season.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aduana Stars confirmed their capture of the 2017 Ghana Premier League on Match Day 29 after they beat Elmina Sharks 2-1 in Dormaa. They had to come back from a goal down to win the match and grab the second title in the club’s history. But beneath the success lies some very interesting statistics that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":362363,"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":[460,461],"class_list":["post-362359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-aduana","tag-ghana-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362359","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=362359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}