{"id":382549,"date":"2017-12-12T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382549"},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:22:42","slug":"kwesi-appiah-labels-egypt-salah-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382549","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Appiah labels Egypt \u201cthe Salah team\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Stars head coach, Kwesi Appiah believes the Pharoah\u2019s of Egypt are a \u201cone man team\u201d and must look to address the situation or face early elimination from the Russia 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n

Hector Cuper and his charges have been drawn in Group A of the World Cup alongside host nation Russia, Saudi Arabia and South American powerhouse, Uruguay.<\/p>\n

The Pharoah\u2019s have in recent times become heavily dependent on the goals of pacy winger Mohammed Salah and this manifested in the qualifying series where he scored 5 of the 8 goals during the campaign.<\/p>\n

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Egypt’s Mohamed Salah (right) celebrates a goal with Ramadan Sobhi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Appiah feels this dependence will make Egypt easy to figure out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played Egypt but as I said all the time all their attacking machinery is dependent on one player.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the best because once he is closed down then this becomes a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they can work on some stuff and get two or three players that are playing at the highest level then automatically team\u2019s won’t plan only against Salah but for others as well,\u201d he told Kwese Sports in an interview.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Benjamin Nketsia\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black Stars head coach, Kwesi Appiah believes the Pharoah\u2019s of Egypt are a \u201cone man team\u201d and must look to address the situation or face early elimination from the Russia 2018 World Cup. Hector Cuper and his charges have been drawn in Group A of the World Cup alongside host nation Russia, Saudi Arabia and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":382550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[696,746,15375],"class_list":["post-382549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-egypt","tag-kwesi-appiah","tag-mo-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382549","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=382549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}