{"id":4173,"date":"2014-03-05T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2014-03-05T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:47:00","slug":"ghana-lose-to-montengero-in-pre-world-cup-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"Ghana lose to Montenegero in pre-World Cup friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gyan-failure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4179\" alt=\"Gyan-failure\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gyan-failure-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gyan-failure-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gyan-failure.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan &#8211; Black Stars captain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ghana lost its first pre-World Cup friendly against Montenegro played in Podgorica.<\/p>\n<p>The home side took the lead under a minute through a penalty converted by Dejan Damjanovic and held on throughout the first half despite the dominance from the Stars team that had the likes of Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Jordan Ayew and Christian Atsu.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Kwesi Appiah rang the changes in the second half and introduced a stronger set that had captain Asamoah Gyan, Albert Adomah, Kwadwo Asamoah, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Daniel Opare introduced while Abdul Majeed Warris, John Boye, and Jerry Akaminko were maintained from the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The changes brought precision into the attacking game of the team but the Montenegrins held firm in defence and managed to create chances on the counter attack.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin-Prince Boateng came close to a leveler in the second half but his left-footed drive was parried out of play by the Montenegrin goalie to deny the Stars an equalizer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Black Stars starting lineup vs Montenegro<\/em><\/strong> (first half): Kwarasey, Boye ,Akaminko, Opare,\u00a0<wbr \/>Addy, Essien, Badu, Wakaso, Atsu,\u00a0<wbr \/>Waris, J.Ayew.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0Changes made in the second half:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kwadwo Asamoah replaced Michael Essien;<\/p>\n<p>Albert Adomah came on for Mubarak Wakaso;<\/p>\n<p>David Addy was replaced by Samuel Inkoom;<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Agyemang Badu was subbed by Sulley Ali Muntari;<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan came on for Jordan Ayew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/Ghana\" target=\"_blank\">citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana lost its first pre-World Cup friendly against Montenegro played in Podgorica. The home side took the lead under a minute through a penalty converted by Dejan Damjanovic and held on throughout the first half despite the dominance from the Stars team that had the likes of Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Jordan Ayew and Christian Atsu. Coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4179,"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":[29,43,3],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","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=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}